Prosecutors say they have found 18 bags of human remains and tools used to dismember bodies at a farm in San Agustín, in the municipality of Tlajomulco, Jalisco, just outside of Lake Chapala. State prosecutors don’t have a count of the bodies. Containers found at the farm that could also hold more. Officials said Friday...Read More

Mexican investigators have found thirty-five bodies buried around the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, the country’s second city, state prosecutors said on Saturday. The discovery of the bodies was another reminder of the task facing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December vowing to reduce the gang-fueled violence that produced nearly 29,000 murders...Read More

Guadalajara adds a new world record. On Sunday, the city hosted the largest tasting of tequila in the world. A total of 1,486 people participated, a record that at first seemed difficult to achieve, because just one night before, the same record had been broken in a hotel in Playa del Carmen with 1,449 people....Read More

In order for Jalisco to continue on the world stage, the world’s largest tequila tasting will be held, seeking to obtain the Guinness Record. For this reason, the Secretariat of Tourism (Sectur), the municipal government of Guadalajara and the National Chamber of the Tequila Industry (CNIT) summon the citizenship to Plaza Liberación at 5:00 pm,...Read More

Because Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) has not been able to comply with the supply of fuel agreed for Jalisco the previous week, the deficit in the hydrocarbon supply remains at 40%. However, consumer panic purchasing by motorists in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara have caused 85% of the service stations to close, according to the coordinator...Read More

The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) attached to the Puerto Vallarta Substation, reported today that an investigation has been opened against those who are responsible for a plantation with 17 thousand bushes of marijuana and an enervating dryer. Elements of the State Police informed the federal prosecutor that when conducting routine inspections and surveillance tours of...Read More

At least during the last three years, the data that the State Prosecutor’s Office reported to the National Public Security System were false or “made up,” said Governor Enrique Alfaro. The foregoing was detected when an audit was made between the statistics that the previous state administration sent to the National System, and the investigation...Read More

Last year, the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara had more days of atmospheric pollution at a high level than Mexico City (CDMX). In the Jalisco city, 16 days were recorded with very poor air quality; that is, with more than 150 points of the Metropolitan Index of Air Quality ( Imeca ), while in CDMX only...Read More

Five earthquakes were registered in the first hours of the new year along the coast of Jalisco, according to the National Seismological. On the night of December 31, a very slight earthquake, of magnitude 3.5, was reported 46 kilometers west of Casimiro Castillo. Later, at 1:18 am, in the early morning hours of January 1,...Read More

Local media in western Mexico are reporting that a drug cartel has hung up banners denying involvement in a Nov. 30 grenade attack on the U.S. consulate in Guadalajara. Several media outlets posted photos of the banners, which read: “Our cartel totally and completely distances itself from what happened at the U.S. embassy (sic).” The...Read More

New Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is taking aim at the finances of the powerful Jalisco cartel in what a top anti-money laundering official said was the opening salvo in the fight to stop criminal gangs from flourishing with impunity. Santiago Nieto, the new head of the finance ministry’s Financial Intelligence Unit, told Reuters...Read More

Six agents of the Jalisco Unified Force (FUJ) were killed and one injured when a command aboard three vehicles ambushed them in the center of the municipal capital of La Huerta, 255 kilometers southwest of Guadalajara, the state capital. The attorney general, Marisela Gómez Cobos, reported that the attack was perpetrated after four in the...Read More

A couple of explosive devices were thrown and detonated on Friday night inside the facilities of the United States Consulate of Guadalajara, confirmed the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico. According to data collected by the authorities, it was around 11 pm that the report was received by the Police Station in Guadalajara of...Read More

Producers of raicilla, brandy made 100 percent of agave, seeks the Designation of Origin of this traditional drink of Jalisco and foresees the recognition being issued by February. At a press conference, the president of the Mexican Council Promoter of the Raicilla (CMPR), Alfredo Cachua reported that they are about to get the certification with...Read More

The second caravan of Central American migrants is approaching Jalisco, so the state government is preparing to give them attention, according to official sources. During the past week, just over 6,000 migrants arrived in Jalisco to the Benito Juarez shelter in Zapopan, which was closed by the governor of Jalisco, Aristóteles Sandoval Díaz, on the...Read More