The large number of cases that the Jalisco State Attorney General’s Office (PGJE) “shelves” serves as “an incentive” to criminals to “carry on as normal,” University of Guadalajara (UDG) professor Dante Haro told Spanish-language daily Mural this week.
Having lost badly in the 2012 presidential election, Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) admitted this week that membership has plummeted by 80 percent.
The number of drug labs discovered by authorities in Jalisco dropped by over 50 percent from 62 in 2011 to 29 in 2012.
Over 1,000 federal and state police have been deployed to the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacan following a recent spate of violence in the region.
A 38-year-old man in a rural community outside Lagos de Moreno has been charged with stabbing to death his curandero (folk healer) after paying more than 300 dollars for a “spiritual cleansing” that he said “didn’t work.”
