A total of 570 earthquakes were recorded in the State of Jalisco between January 1 to September 15 of this year, a statistic that is within the normal range for the state, according to the Seismological System National. As for the magnitude, the highest that has been recorded this year was 5.8, during the earthquake...Read More

Until the beginning of August, a total of 790 confirmed cases of dengue were recorded in Jalisco, which, according to the Jalisco Ministry of Health (SSJ), represents an increase of about 243% compared to the figure in the same period of 2018: 233 patients. Together with Chiapas, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo, Jalisco is among...Read More

Two gunmen were shot to death by the security detail for the Nayarit state governor’s wife while she was in the neighboring western state of Jalisco, Mexican officials said Wednesday. The Nayarit state government said via Twitter that María Luisa Aguirre de Echevarría was at a fast-food restaurant in a shopping center in Zapopan outside...Read More

Hail covered the city center and roads of the municipality of Zapotlán del Rey Jalisco affecting vehicular traffic. Reports indicate that residents could not leave their homes because hail blocked the doors of their homes and authorities reported that two streets were obstructed by ice, which was removed with machinery from the municipality. The municipal president,...Read More

Mexico is going through the bloodiest stage of its history. The dispute between the cartels to control a larger part of the national territory each time, and even beyond its borders, has led to a bitter struggle, which day by day has become more violent. The appearance of new cartels, derived from the internal struggles...Read More

The Jalisco State Secretary, Enrique Ibarra Pedroza, announced that the procedures for the attention to 457 homes affected by Sunday’s hailstorm have already begun. Also, the mayor of Guadalajara, Ismael del Toro Castro, said that different agencies, such as the DIF and Citizen Participation, are working “to know the amounts of the damages in the...Read More

The Attorney General’s Office remains on alert after threats that have continued to be received after the assassination of two investigating agents in Tlajomulco on June 21, in addition to another attack that same day in the Auditorio neighborhood in Zapopan. The head of the agency, Gerardo Octavio Solís Gómez, did not rule out that...Read More

A heavy rain and hail storm affected the municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque, around one o’clock this Sunday morning. The accumulation of ice was unusual, in Tlaquepaque there were streets where it reached up to one meter in height, so emergency services used heavy machinery for the removal. “We are doing...Read More

In four coordinated attacks by organized crime during Friday morning, two agents of the State Prosecutor’s Office (FE) were murdered, two alleged criminals killed, and a fifth male was killed. Security forces detained three alleged gunmen after a shootout that lasted almost two hours in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco. In the afternoon, the Jalisco prosecutor,...Read More

The Nayarit government protected its access from Jalisco to prevent suspected criminals who might try to enter its territory after clashes between police and armed individuals in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, Jalisco, near the Nayarit border, as reported by the Secretary of Public Security of the State (SSPE). The agency added, through a communiqué, that state...Read More

Researchers have recorded 6 low-intensity explosions, 14 landslides and constant emanations of water vapor and gases in recent days at the Colima Volcano. On April 26, after 26 months of inactivity, the volcano increased its seismic activity considerably. On May 11 an explosion occurred that started the crater breaking. One month later, on June 11,...Read More

A student of American nationality was murdered and another is missing, the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office reported. The agency explained, in a statement, that it “conducts a joint investigation” with the Executive Prosecutor’s Office in Criminal Investigation and the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Missing Persons “for the disappearance of one young man and the murder of...Read More

On the first day of training to become a hitman for the Jalisco Cartel New Generation, Francisco learned that the only way to escape from the camp was to leave “in a body bag.” In three months he’d learn much more: how to handle short and long weapons, ambush enemies, respect the rules, not be...Read More

As of July 1, the start of the National Guard in Jalisco with a force of 3, 600 troops will arrive, reported the secretary of Public Safety and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo Montaño. In a meeting with Governor Enrique Alfaro, Durazo endorsed the commitment to deploy 3,600 elements to cover the various regional coordination in...Read More

At the beginning of November 2018, professors Lizette González Valadez and Damián Salcedo Rodríguez were promoted to directors. That same payday their salary was not deposited. The situation was repeated in the next pay period and continues today, leaving seven months that some teachers in Jalisco have not been paid. “Not a peso, nor bonuses...Read More