The fast-fashion online clothing seller Shein has dropped an embroidered floral blouse after the Mexican government complained it appropriated designs made for generations by Mayan women on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. 'These designs are product of the collective creativity that belongs to the Maya people,' Mexico’s Culture Department said.

Intentional homicides in Mexico fell to 15,400 in the first half of 2022, down 9.1 percent from the 16,948 homicides reported over the same six-month period of last year, the government said Wednesday. Gender-related killings, or femicides, fell 8.02 percent to 493 for the six-month period.

Avocados from Jalisco can now be made into guacamole on the other side of the border. After 10 years of waiting, the U.S. has authorized the importation of the fruit from this state. Until now, Michoacán had a monopoly on exports to the U.S., generating $2.8b USD last year.

Last week in Mexico City, Google announced that it will invest 200 million pesos ($9.9 million USD) over the next three years to train women in Mexico’s southeast. The training will help 2,300 women develop their digital skills in order to improve their work prospects.

Mexico is one step away from saying goodbye to daylight saving time after more than two decades. On Tuesday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent the initiative to Congress which, if passed, will eliminate advancing the clock on the first Sunday in April and turning it back on the last Sunday in October.

Jalisco drove national employment growth in the first half of 2022, creating 10.4% of the total number of new jobs created in Mexico. Official statistics show that the Mexican economy added 448,560 formal jobs from January to June 2022 and 46,756 of those were in the western state.

Animal abuse has many faces in Mexico, which is why Mexican authorities have taken action on several occasions to legislate and impose sanctions on those who mistreat animals. Jalisco is one of the states with the greatest progress in public policies to protect pets, however, these sanctions are not enough for some legislators.

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House on July 12, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. The leaders will discuss their efforts to address global challenges, such as food security, and talk about joint competitiveness initiatives, among other topics.

Electronics manufacturer Sanmina SCI will be investing US$216 million in Jalisco this year. But Sanmina is not the only company investing in Jalisco. In total, more than 720 million dollars in new investments were garnered during the Government of Jalisco's June 13-16 promotional tour through California's Silicon Valley.

AMLO wants Mexicans to produce more of their own food in order to move toward self-sufficiency in key products and to control prices for basic foodstuffs. The president's idea, which involves giving rural families technical advice and cash payments to grow crops, isn't new, but several factors have given it new urgency.