General News

More than 10 million fish died in Lake Cajititan because of an excess of organic matter and fecal coliform bacteria, according to a preliminary study by the Jalisco Forensic Sciences Institute.

For the third time this summer Lake Cajititlan has suffered a massive fish kill.

Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval opened a dialogue with Amnesty International after meeting with the human rights watch organization’s Mexico president, Perseo Quiroz Rendón, this week.

More than 400 Huicholes quickly packed up their belongings and headed back to their homes in the north of Jalisco after receiving assurances from Interior Ministry (Segob) officials that grievances related to land rights will be addressed promptly.

The Jalisco government is putting up a booty of 17 million pesos to incentivize filmmakers to make their movies in this state.

Members of Jalisco’s Huichol indigenous community say they are prepared to camp outside federal offices in Guadalajara for as long as it takes to get 10,000 hectares of land returned to their rightful possession.

The deaths of up to a million fish in Lake Cajititlan is sparking a bitter war of words between officials from rival political parties as experts struggle to determine whether natural causes or pollution is to blame for the ecological disaster.

As the new academic term got under way this week, approximately 11,000 students enrolled in Chapala’s public schools lined up to collect school supplies and backpacks parceled out free of charge through the government-sponsored Mochilas con Utiles program. While the hand-out represents big savings for parents facing major expenses to put their kids through school, it comes as a blow to many small businesses.