Restaurants in Jalisco are hoping for a boom in business during the London 2012 Olympic Games, with more customers coming to watch sports involving Mexican athletes.

The State Blood Transfusion Center (CETS) is to open 16 blood banks in municipalities across Jalisco before the end of 2012.

Adoptions in Jalisco may be placed on hold following the release of a video that appears to show two psychologists trying to convince two girls at a Guadalajara children’s home to be adopted by an Italian rather than a Mexican couple.

Enrique Alfaro of the Citizens Movement trails Aristoteles Sandoval of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the polls with a week to go before the election.

The number of deaths from traffic accidents in Jalisco this year is 15 percent up on 2011, according to figures released by the Jalisco Forensic Science Institute. Between January 1 and June 12, 221 people have died as a result of traffic accidents, compared to 179 in the same time period last year.

In the first three months of 2012 exports from Jalisco were 36 percent higher than in the same period of last year, according to the Jalisco State Information System (Seijal). The total value of exports from January to March this year was 11.5 billion dollars, up from 8.4 billion dollars in 2011.