Hurricane Bud turned out to be more of a damp squib, leaving not a trace of devastation in its wake after it struck Jalisco late last week.

Having moved up Mexico’s Pacific coast, Hurricane Bud was drawing ever closer to Jalisco as the Reporter went to press.

To once again commemorate the millions of people who have passed away since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, the 29th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial will  be marked in Guadalajara on Sunday, May 20, with a procession from the Templo Expiatorio (Avenidas Enrique Diaz de Leon and Lopez Cotilla)  to the Plaza Fundadores (behind the Teatro Degollado), starting at 7 p.m.

To celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO) on Thursday, May 17, Guadalajara’s LGBT community paid tribute to local homosexual icons at the Rotonda de los Jaliscienses Ilustres in the historic city center, next to the Cathedral.

Jalisco is on the verge of becoming the seventh Mexican state to treat femicide as a distinct crime and a more serious form of murder.

State police have captured a leader of the Milenio Cartel linked to the massacre of 18 people whose dismembered bodies were dumped in two SUVs just off the Chapala highway last Wednesday.