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Chapala generó 76 nuevas plazas formales durante abril, según el IIEG. Foto: Archivo. 

Redacción.- Durante el mes de abril pasado, Chapala se colocó en la lista de los 20 municipios con mayor generación de empleos; mientras que Jocotepec se integró a los de mayor pérdida. 

Esto de acuerdo a las cifras presentadas por el Instituto de Información Estadísticas y Geográfica del estado (IIEG), sustentadas en  la base de datos del IMSS de los trabajadores asegurados.

Chapala ocupó la posición número 13 con 76 nuevos empleos formales generados durante abril, 59 de ellos permanentes y 17 eventuales; esta categoría fue liderada por Autlán de Navarro con 514 trabajadores, Tonalá con 454 nuevos empleos y Guadalajara con 401 asegurados más. 

En contraste, Jocotepec se posicionó en el sexto lugar de la lista de los municipios que mayor pérdida registraron con 271 empleos formales menos, 167 eventuales y 104 permanentes;  Zacoalco de Torres fue el que mayor pérdida tuvo con -925 trabajadores, seguido de Tlaquepaque con -835 y  Zapotlán el Grande con -741 empleos formales.

A nivel estatall, Jalisco perdió 2 mil 61 plazas formales durante abril de 2022, principalmente del sector de la agricultura, ganadería, silvicultura y pesca. Pese a esta caída, durante el primer cuatrimestre el estado generó 34,716 empleos nuevos, colocándose como la segunda entidad en el país con la cifra más alta en generación de empleo formal en el acumulado anual.

El robo se efectuó en la parroquia de San Francisco de Asis. Foto: Archivo.

Redacción.- Dos hombres fueron detenidos por presuntamente robar más de 6 mil pesos en una iglesia de Chapala. 

Personal de la Fiscalía Regional puso a disposición de los jueces que los requerían con una orden de aprehensión por el delito de robo calificado.

Se trata de Yahir Alejandro G. y Víctor Alfonso C., quienes fueron  detenidos en la calle Isla del Presidio al cruce con De los Maestros, de la colonia Gastronómica, en el municipio de Chapala.

Los hechos por los que fueron capturados ocurrieron la semana pasada y, de acuerdo con las indagatorias estas personas ingresaron a la iglesia de San Francisco de Asís, forzaron un lucernario de monedas que se encontraba a pie de una imagen católica y extrajeron la cantidad de 6 mil pesos, motivo por el cual les resultó la orden de aprehensión.

Ambos fueron puestos a disposición del Juez de Control y Juicio Oral del Quinto Distrito Judicial, quien resolverá su situación jurídica. Las personas detenidas serán tratadas como inocentes en tanto no se emita una sentencia en su contra.

The DIF building, located on Degollado Street in Chapala. (Photo: Jazmín Stengel)

Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).- The Office for the Protection of Children and Adolescents (DIF) Chapala has custody of 39 minors, but none can be adopted until DIF obtains processes of parental authority–a relative’s legal permission, a necessary requirement for adoption. 

DIF initiated nine processes of parental authority last year. According to DIF, five of the 43 children in their 12 Chapala shelters have been handed over to close relatives. 

In Mexico, if these processes are not initiated by the custodial authorities, either through ignorance or unwillingness, the children are at risk of remaining in shelters without the possibility of access to a family, said Paloma Ventura Valenzuela, head of the children’s ombudsman at the municipal level.

For the minors who have not undergone the process granting parental rights to access adoption, the procedures are more complicated, because in most cases the child’s relatives are untraceable or their sociolegal situation does not allow them to give up the parental rights of the child, which complicates the process for the authorities to acquire it legally, said Ventura Valenzuela.

Consequently, the children’s files remain open for years in the Public Ministry with the investigation incomplete. Additionally, many governmental administrations overlook the children’s situation, failing also to provide the social-work services to support the investigations. Some have not received reports in more than 12 years, said Emmanuel Anthony Frutos, operating director of the children’s shelter Love in Action of Chapala.

Translated by Mags Petela

The smoke reached several neighboring homes.

On Saturday, April 23rd, a property in the town of La Loma was set on fire and generated a large column of smoke that reached several houses, leaving them full of ash. The fire and smoke alerted the neighbors who alerted Civil Protection and Firefighters, who arrived at the site to control the situation.

Translated b y Patrick O’Heffernan

The violent event was recorded during the early evening of April 25. Photo: Twitter.

Editor.- A man and a woman were fatally wounded while drinking in a bar on the Guadalajara-Morelia highway, in the municipality of Tuxcueca, on April 25.

Municipal police responded to the scene in San Luis Soyatlán after gunfire was reported at approximately 6.20 p.m.

Inside the bar, agents found the deceased male victim with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. The injured woman was taken to receive medical attention but died upon arrival at the aid station.

The bodies were transferred to the region’s amphitheater for the autopsy required by law. The victims were not immediately identified.

Various shell casings were found at the scene of the shooting. Evidence was secured with the support of experts from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences.

Translated by Alan Ferguson

A Tyrannosaurus Rex escaped from its habitat at the CUOP Jurassic Park to live with the children of kindergarten, preschool and elementary school in an interactive show. Photo: D. Arturo Ortega.

The students of the Octavio Paz University Campus (CUOP)  a Jurassic experience during the celebration of Children’s Day at the school’s  Ajijic facilities, which this year was celebrated with dinosaurs.

The experience began with a safari-like tour, where upon entering the educational facilities, they emulated the habitats of the dinosaurs. Photo: D. Arturo Ortega.

The experience began with a safari-like tour,  through a Jurassic park-like environment guarded   by paper-mâché sauropods that surprised the parents  as they dropped off their children at school.

During the rest of the day the students learned different play activities in each classroom where they were able to make a fossil, the workshop where the children assembled their safari vehicle, feeding the dinosaur, among other activities.

During the rest of the day the students learned different playful activities, such as feeding the dinosaur. Photo: Mr. Arturo Ortega.

The day concluded when a Velociraptor and a Tyrannosaurus Rex escaped from their habitats at the CUOP Jurassic Park to spend time with the kindergarten, preschool and elementary school children in an interactive show with fun games for the  little ones.  

Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan

AMLO announced vaccination for minors, from 12 to 17 years old in general, as the last stage of the fight against the pandemic. Photo: Internet. 

By Abigail A. Correa Cisneros

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the last stage in the fight against the pandemic, which is the vaccination of children between 12 and 17 years of age,  indicating that Covid-19  may be under control in Mexico.

Mexico has met the  four criteria of the World Health Organization (WHO):high response capacity, high vaccination coverage, few deaths related to the disease and a low number of cases.

The spread of the virus is decreasing after two years of reducing the number of public activities requiring close contact. The President said everything related to Covid-19 will continue to be addressed. The main focus in health  policy will be creation of the new health care system, «With the purpose of guaranteeing the people of Mexico the right to health.”

Medical units, health centers and hospitals must be in good condition. They should have the necessary equipment, all the doctors and specialists. Care should be available on weekends, at night, permanent attention. Clinical analyses and medicines should be provided free of charge. Free medical attention should be guaranteed, not only what has to do with basic medicines, the so-called basic list, but all the medicines, studies and everything that has to do with health free of charge.

The data, so far, show that Mexico ranks 28th out of 30 countries in mortality per million inhabitants, due to SARS-coV-2.

Above Mexico in the rankings are countries such as Peru and Brazil. Chile, in 16th place, and the United States, in 17th place for their levels of mortality related to the disease. Below Mexico, Russia and Ukraine were in 29th and 30th places.

The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo Lopez-Gatel, said that the world is about to enter the endemic stage of the disease. The virus will not disappear, but thanks to different factors, such as vaccination, its spread will be less and the disease will remain and will surely behave like seasonal influenza. There will likely be a greater number of infections in autumn and winter and fewer in spring and summer. The WHO, he affirmed, has established criteria that allow pointing out that the nations are at the end of the epidemic state of Covid-19.

He added that our country meets those criteria: hospital occupancy is less than two percent, vaccination coverage is 90 percent among the adult population and 87 percent among all those eligible to receive it. On average there are four deaths per day and less than 300 cases per day.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Special Delegation of Palestine in Mexico signed a Declaration of Intent on agricultural matters, aimed at carrying out joint technical cooperation activities for food production in arid areas, expanding agri-food trade and promoting investment in productive projects. The document aims to promote actions for the transfer of climate-smart technology and sustainable soil and water management, in order to promote food security and the incorporation of small-scale producers in these areas of the country. 

The National Electoral Institute intends to levy a fine of 448,100 pesos on Samuel García, Governor of Nuevo León, for irregularities in the financing of his campaign, including contributions from his relatives. The electoral body accuses fraud, since the politician allowed a triangulation of resources with the intention of evading the electoral legislation on auditing, since legal entities, by themselves or by third parties, cannot make contributions of any kind to candidates and their political parties.

Translated by Mike Rogers

Bertha Mendoza Díaz professes great fervor to the image of the Lord of Huaje

María del Refugio Reynozo Medina.- Seventy-three-year-old Bertha Mendoza Díaz is originally from Jocotepec. She and her brother Cándido Mendoza Díaz grew up seeing the loving devotion to the Lord of Huaje by their parents. The Lord of Huaje is one of the two sacred images of Christ revered in Jocotopec. The other is the Lord of the Mountain.

Their father, Cirilo Mendoza Valencia, one of Jocotepec’s artisan woodworkers taught the trade to Cándido. Cándido, in addition to being a woodworker, is a musician and has been a high school art teacher for 24 years.

Bertha Mendoza Díaz talks about the testimonies of faith.

Because of his great devotion, Cirilo Mendoza always wanted to be one of the organizers of the feast of the Lord of Huaje. Around 1970 he heard that it would be the last year that the Lord of Huaje would be celebrated due to lack of economic resources. 

Don Cirilo went to the parish of Señor del Monte (Lord of the Mountain) to ask to borrow some banners and candlesticks because the precinct of the Lord of Huaje did not have any.

Don Cirilo asked the priest permission to borrow what he needed. The priest told him, “If any of the things are lost, you will pay for them. Don Cirilo replied, “If it is necessary for me to stay and sleep with him, I will.» 

Cándido Mendoza Díaz is a laborer, musician, high school art teacher and professes a love for the Lord of Huaje instilled by his parents.

On the evening of the eve of the feast, a group of helpers set out to close the door when the decorating was finished. The door remained stuck open and could not be closed, even with the help of the others. Don Cirilo remembered that he had promised to stay overnight with the Lord. His sympathetic helpers, Ángel Paz, Benito Inés and Catarino Olmedo went to get their personal items to join Don Cirilo for a sleepless night.  When they returned, ready to settle in, they tried to close the heavy wooden gate one more time. Before everyone’s eyes, the gate closed. “He was testing us,» said one of the helpers.

The first celebrations that honored this Christ were only two days: Saturday and Sunday occurring the days after the January feast. Then the celebration of a novena (nine-day prayers and celebration) was added.

Mrs. Bertha continued with her love for the image of Lord Huaje and was very close to the activities of the temple. Although in the temple a loving contemplation was not always experienced.  She remembers a priest named Emeterio Romo, whose actions were very strange.  He was allergic to flowers. He used to say, why are you having so many parties?”  When he was asked to authorize a party, he was reluctant.

“They are our images of Christ,» the women would tell him. 

On one occasion in 1975 Bertha found out that a meeting was being held to change the date of the feast.  She and other people did not agree and tried to prevent it. In the end, the celebration date was changed to the current one in May.  But the first year of the change they celebrated in January and May. 

Mrs. Bertha jealously guards all the images of the Lord of Huaje that come into her hands

That last January celebration has been referred to as the feast of the excommunicated, referring to the people who participated in it. The first time the celebration was held in May, the organizers sent a summons to the organizers of the January celebration, through the presidency, so that they could borrow the platform. Tempers flared and the two groups were fighting for the platform. The platform was shared and that year the Lord of Huaje had two celebrations and many faithful gathered around the image.

Many stories are shared about this Christ figure. Someone once said that he opened his lips. Some say that sometimes it becomes very heavy to carry him.  Or that sometimes the photos taken of him do not come out.

One time a man promised some banners, but he did not pay for them. One afternoon someone came to the man’s house carrying some banners. “Here are the ordered banners,» he said, and he asked for payment.

Mrs. Bertha professes great love for this crucified man and talks closely with him. On one occasion, her granddaughter had a pickup truck stolen. «Why?» she thought and questioned inwardly; «it was the truck or you,» she heard in her heart.

On one occasion, she thought it was all over, she was diagnosed with a tumor, and the need for intervention was urgent. Before leaving for the hospital, Bertha threw herself at the feet of the crucified one begging for her health. When she was in the hospital undergoing clinical examinations, the doctors found nothing malignant. In her heart, she understood that it was Him. “Do I love Him?” she says to me.

“Do I want it?” she says with a faraway look. “Oh, what if I don’t love him!” she says with a frank smile, very close to tears. “I have not only heard about him since I was in  my mother’s womb. I have lived and loved him.” 

Translated by Nita Rudy

La Policía del Estado realiza recorridos de vigilancia por los municipios de la zona. Foto: SSJ. 

Redacción.- Oficiales de la Secretaría de Seguridad del Estado de Jalisco (SSE) mantienen patrullajes y recorridos de vigilancia permanentes en los municipios que comprenden la región Sureste de Jalisco, como parte del refuerzo de la vigilancia y con el objetivo de brindar seguridad y tranquilidad a las y los habitantes.

La SSE informó que los policías, además de patrullar, realizan acciones de proximidad con la ciudadanía en los municipios de Concepción de Buenos Aires, Manzanilla de la Paz, Mazamitla, Valle de Juárez, Quitupan, Tuxcueca y Tizapán el Alto.

La presencia de la Policía del Estado se da como parte de las acciones de refuerzo a la vigilancia en esta zona, así como en coordinación con las autoridades locales, la Guardia Nacional y la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional para propiciar entornos seguros tanto para los habitantes como para quienes realizan actividades turísticas.

Este refuerzo en la seguridad se da tras los hechos violentos que dejaron  tres personas sin vida y diversos bloqueos carreteros, luego de un enfrentamiento armado acontecido el domingo primero de mayo en el municipio de Mazamitla. 

Photograph of the original truck that had been identified by the Rotary Club Guadalajara International, equipped with the ladder and hoses.  .

Héctor Ruiz Mejía.- The Civil Protection and Fire Department of Jocotepec received the donation of a fire truck. 

The vehicle was acquired through a district grant organized by the Rotary Club Guadalajara International A.C., in conjunction with the other Rotary Clubs of Jocotepec, Ajijic and Chapala.

This is intended to improve the equipment of the fire department, which handles about two thousand reports per year, including firefighting, assistance in accidents and gas leaks.

However, Eduardo Góngora Olmedo, one of the organizers of the grant, commented that, despite «feeling happy» for the contribution to the firefighters, the purchase was not exactly as they had expected.

After the Rotary Club of Guadalajara identified the vehicle in the United States, they made arrangements for its purchase and subsequent transfer to Jocotepec, but when they received it, they realized that it was a different model. Consequently, the purchase price was higher than stipulated, since originally the truck would have cost $20,000 US dollars, which, with the exchange rate in pesos at that time, totalled about 407 thousand pesos. An additional 50,000 pesos to transport it to Mexico brought the total to approximately 457,000 pesos.

Although the actual amount paid was not specified, Góngora Olmedo assured that it was much higher than previously agreed.

He also explained that the model that was thought to have been purchased would have been «much better» equipped, as it had a ladder, hoses and other additional equipment. However, he said that he was satisfied with the truck that the Fire Department now has at its disposal.

In order to raise the funds for the purchase, many people joined the project. Two bazaars were opened where clothes were sold. In addition, the Jocotepec City Hall allocated 150,000 pesos. 

Translated by Sandy Britton