LOCAL-The new Secretary of Tourism of Jalisco is committed to supporting PuertoVallarta.

Enrique Ramos Flores is the new Secretary of Tourism of Jalisco (Setujal) in state administration headed by Aristotle Sandoval Diaz, that, after the murder of Jesus Gallegos Alvarez. This Friday, the state governor, Aristotle Sandoval swore in businessman Jesus Enrique Ramos Flores, successor in the Setujal. In ceremony held at the Government Palace, the new Minister of Tourism stated that the task you have, is to consolidate the state as a world class tourist destination. The state governor, Sandoval Aristotle, was on hand to take the oath to the new official, who was introduced by Arturo Zamora as an "honest man and proven experience."

Note that the state of Jalisco is the seventh national state in terms of tourism receipts, however the company has the potential to top the list.

Aristotle Sandoval pointed , meanwhile, they have all the confidence that Ramos Flores will an important role in its task of placing Jalisco in the top as a tourist
destination.

In turn, the Government Secretary Arturo Zamora Jimenez said that the new owner of the Setujal has the ideal profile for a big role in his new assignment, besides having an experience in the tourist industry for over 30 years, which will help  achieve international fielding Jalisco as one of the best destinations.

Meanwhile, the new head of the Ministry of Tourism, Enrique Ramos Flores, said his main challenge will be to consolidate Jalisco as a world class tourist destination, being the most important goal to raise leisure tourism in the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara.

He said that 75 percent of the visitors to the state capital, is business tourism sector, which reflects the organization of exhibitions and forums in Guadalajara Expo, while 25 percent is for leisure visitors.

He also disclosed that in recent days, an international journal of tourism industry  called to Guadalajara metropolitan area as the eighth destination worldwide booming, so this picture will seek support in the

LOCAL- Governor, Aristotle Sandoval Enrique Ramos Flores swore.

international arena.

"Our task will be to consolidate Jalisco as a world class tourist destination (...) and also consolidate emerging destinations in recent years have begun to join in our state and they are gaining importance," he said.

He also stressed that offer support for different destinations of the state, where Puerto Vallarta is notable for its large range of hotel and tourism.

He said that will increase the frequently airlines arriving in the city as still suffering the impact that caused the 2008 crisis with visitors from the U.S. and Canada.

He stressed that the international tourist magazine ranks Traveler's Choice Guadalajara Metropolitan Area as eighth booming tourist destination worldwide.

New Ministry of Tourism Enrique Ramos Flores experienced

• President of Chamber of Commerce of Guadalajara (1984-1985)
• Councillor and Director of Citizen Participation in the municipality (1989-1990)
• Zapopan municipal Vice (1990-1991)
• Secretary for Economic Development of the Government of Ontario (1994)
•  Federal Deputy in the LV Legislature
• The Daily Editorial Coordinator (2007-2009)
•  President of the Board of the Historic Center of Guadalajara (2010)

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According to the entrepreneurs surveyed, including several hotels, the spectacular return of the strip billboards would represent a step backwards in the visual image that Puerto Vallarta offers to  the national and international tourism reaching the destination.

Entrepreneurs, citizens and authorities said: it is a contradiction to allow the return of the billboards, since tourism authorities are making great efforts in promoting and advertising in Mexico, USA and Canada, on the other hand becomes visually pollute the tourist destination with the announcement at the foot of the main street of this port.

Note that the municipal trustee, Roberto Ascencio Castillo, confirmed yesterday that the first Friday of March came the notification of the decision of the Court issued an administrative order to allow the installation of billboards

The same court ordered that they be granted to companies interested in installing billboards respective municipal licenses, particularly to the owners of the property.

Remember that during the previous municipal government were removed about 80 structures and billboards that had been installed in recent years on Avenida Francisco Medina Ascencio and surrounding streets.

The purpose was to respond to business and tourist demand for clean visual image of Puerto Vallarta, which remained intact for almost three years.

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In recent weeks it has filed several complaints of extortion phone in this language and with local authorities, however, many more go unreported by affected persons, whether or not they have fallen into the deception.

In recent weeks it has filed several complaints of extortion telephone In These journalistic offices and with local authorities, however, many more go unreported by affected persons, whether or not they have fallen into the deception.

The most recent and well known publicly, was the former politician Ismael Macias Garibay, who claimed he was the victim of a telephone extortion, ceded to a cash payment through a bank deposit, however frequently affected by this situation speak to this wording to complain and what to do with these cases

In response, the Attorney General of the State of Jalisco (PGJEJ) announced that it is important for people to be informed in order to prevent becoming a victim of these facts, since criminals taking advantage of the emotional states manipulated people to achieve their economic objectives.

Generally, criminal groups use mobile phone lines, which appear on caller ID as "private number", to make the call and creating fictitious situations, whereby, convincing victims to deposit cash or post codes prepaid cards airtime

MODUS OPERANDI:

The offender either make phone calls to landline (home) or mobile (cellular), claiming that they belong to a criminal group and kidnap or harm made to members of the family of the victim, and to make them believe that they are monitoring in the vicinity home with armed men, thus achieving instill fear in people.

Then, ask the person who gets out of the house carrying a cell phone and charger, or performing a cell phone purchase, making emphasis on having tapped telephone lines, which are monitored and any attempt communication of the victim to their families, come armed to kill a loved one.

Faced with these threats, the victim continues to literally all indications of offenders, and provide them with all personal data that the offender requests, including a phone number of a relative

Having done this, the offender is in constant telephone communication with the victim, asked to go hide somewhere (mall, hotel stays, gift shops, etc.) When you communicate with relatives of the victim into believing they are physically the victim in a safe house, isolated and sometimes say they are torturing, the moment you ask for a "rescue", this being a cash deposit or refills calling card. Thus preventing criminals relatives communicate with each other.

It is noteworthy that these criminals make the calls from other cities, ie never have direct contact with the victim, so use the "conference call" or "tripartite conference," cell phones into believing relatives, they actually have a person deprived of liberty or kidnapped, a language used big words.

The voice is strong, fast talking accents sometimes from other states, using the threat as a means of manipulation and claim to have data of the victim or his family.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Authorities recommend listen and identify what it is called, once you hang up and then note that the offender will call at least three times, so we recommend not to answer the phone all the remainder of day.

It is very important not to provide personal information to strangers under any situation and avoid leaving name in your voicemail, as well as in the contact record them with names and not with their relationship.

THE DATA:

If you receive a call and they say they are belong to a criminal group and they order you to leave home,  first make contact with your family to ensure that they are well,  keep on hand the emergency phone numbers (066) (089)

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party begins a congress on Saturday to overhaul its manifesto and open the door to major changes in energy and tax law to spur faster economic growth.

The PRI, as the party is known, plans to vote on measures that would allow President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration to consider imposing a value added tax (VAT) on food and medicines and to allow more private investment in state oil firm Pemex.

Pena Nieto, who took office in December, has pledged to boost annual growth in Latin America's second biggest economy to up to six percent. To do this, Mexico must overhaul state oil monopoly Pemex and improve its paltry tax take, the government says.

Without levying a value added tax on food and medicines, economists say Mexico may struggle to raise tax revenues, which are currently the lowest in the Organistion for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as a proportion of gross domestic product.

However, applying the value added tax to food and medicine is controversial because it would fall most heavily on the poor, about half the country's population.

Food and medicine have been exempt from the tax, but senior PRI party officials say that element will be removed to give the party more options to broaden the tax take.

"VAT is important. But it's by no means the center of the fiscal reform," PRI party chairman Cesar Camacho said this week, looking ahead to the congress.

The PRI, which ruled Mexico for 71 years straight until 2000, used its stance on the VAT to thwart efforts by the conservative National Action Party (PAN) to increase the tax take during its 12 year rule, which ended in 2012.

Since recapturing the presidency, the PRI leadership has made the case for sweeping change to bolster the economy, which underperformed its main regional peers under the PAN, growing about 2 percent annually for most of the past decade.

Yet the changes sought by Pena Nieto run contrary to many old tenets of the PRI, a party which started on the left and gradually drifted toward the right during its long rule.

Overhauling Pemex, a symbol of Mexican self-reliance which provides a third of the federal tax take, is particularly sensitive for the PRI, which created the company when then-president Lazaro Cardenas nationalized the oil industry in 1938.

Output of crude has slumped to less than 2.6 million barrels per day from 3.4 million in 2004, and lawmakers worry the oil industry will be left behind unless it can improve performance.

Pena Nieto aims to make the monopoly more efficient and more independent. He has vowed to bring in more private capital and has taken inspiration from Brazil's state-controlled oil firm Petrobras, part of which has been publicly listed.

But he is constantly having to defend his administration from accusations that he plans to privatize the oil industry.

During the congress, the PRI will reaffirm that oil is the property of the nation, but stress the need to strengthen Pemex and open the company to more outside investment, a senior party lawmaker told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We want to keep our options open," he said.

One of the members of Mexico’s House of Representatives has aroused the concerns of her fellow lawmakers, thanks to her choice in clothing…or lack thereof.

Photos of Crystal Tovar Aragón, a 23-year federal congresswoman, wearing a revealing short skirt created a stir in the Mexican media and on social media sites, prompting a fellow congressman to call on Mexican media outlets to behave respectfully and ethically in their treatment and portrayal of lawmakers.

“We strongly appeal to the media to contribute to the construction of a democratic country and promote an equal relationship between women and men, through messages that eliminate discrimination and violence against women,” said José Gonzalez Morfin.

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The presence of killer whales in the Bay of Banderas, is a common phenomenon that is repeated every year especially during winter, but they can be seen at any time, mainly in search of food including fish, turtles, mantas, dolphins and during the This winter, humpback whales, making these shores the passageway, so this should not be cause for alarm, said marine biologist María Eugenia Rodríguez Vázquez, association with Wildlife Connection AC

In this regard said that visiting the bay orcas (Orcinus orca) belong to the type known as transients and some of them are true to the area as they have been photo identified from 1992 to 1997, so this 2013 as sightings of this species could not be the exception and the first reports of presence were held on February 6 near the Marietta Islands from February 7 to this day, have been observed in the southern part of the bay, near the arches and against Puerto Vallarta.

According to the researcher, there are two breeding females and a juvenile male, and although it is believed that killer whales usually stay for a few days, this time the group  takes about a week in a busy area, calling Vallartenses attention, tourists and authorities.

In the presence of this species, the director of Ecology Luis Gonzalez Guevara, makes the following recommendations to the public, "and that although there are no reports of orca attacks on humans, they are still hunters top of the food chain in the sea ", so it is important to take the following measures:

• If it detects the presence of killer whales very near your boat or visiting the area, avoid getting to swim or snorkel at that point.
• The tourist boats that are in your way, not to annoy or harass, as are females with calves
• In the case of jetskis and kayaks, is strictly prohibited and harass follow.
• They should ask the authorities monitoring these small vessels to avoid any accidents.

He further noted that it is tracking the presence of this species in the bay, so that it is requesting public sighting should be reported to place your phone 225 3621 with marine biologist María Eugenia Rodríguez or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., providing the location, date and time, as well as photographs that might take them.

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The State Congress approved today correct state revenue law of Puerto Vallarta, on the overtime pay which was printed in the official newspaper of Jalisco with a "finger error".

In addition to the high increase of the operating licenses and restrictions, overtime rates were cause discomfort to the owners of restaurants, bars, and warehouses, who considered such amounts as unaffordable

The Consular Agency also performs notarials and receives applications for U.S. passports and consular reports of birth abroad (CRBAs). Passport and CRBA applications are forwarded to the U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara (the Consular Agency's supervisory post) for processing.

Kelly Trainor has been the Consular Agent since November 1998. She is assisted by a staff of three employees.

U.S. Consular Agency in Puerto Vallarta

With Enrique Peña Nieto’s first congressional session just starting, expectations are high. Between now and April 30th, when the sixty-second Congress will adjourn, many hope the administration will tackle the deep seated structural issues that hold the nation back.

Mexico’s Congress has much going for it, as momentum for reform—lacking for years—is there. This new Congress began its tenure last September (working with President Felipe Calderón), and during its first go round, it passed a labor reform that enables greater flexibility in hiring and firing workers and an education reform that changes the way teachers will be hired, evaluated, and promoted. Though some deemed the reforms as watered-down, these significant pieces of legislation represent a break from the gridlock of the past.

Another advantage lies in the congressional leadership. The heads of the PRI delegations—the largest in both houses—are adept political operators. Senator Emilio Gamboa Patrón brings over thirty years experience working in a multitude of government positions to the table. Even stronger is Manlio Fabio Beltrones in the lower house, recognized by supporters and critics alike as one of Mexico’s most gifted politicians. Their developing agenda complements much of the PAN’s, where they may find willing partners.

Finally, Mexico’s three main political parties have already identified the substantial common ground on what needs to be done. The Pacto por Mexico is comprised on five central areas (constructing a law-based society, promoting economic growth, employment and competitiveness, improving security and justice, enhancing transparency, and furthering democratic governance) and includes ninety-five proposals that address everything from breaking up monopolies to investing more in science and technology. Though moving from principles to details is always difficult, this underlying consensus provides a starting point missing in the past.

So what will be on 2013’s agenda? The Pacto por Mexico lays out complete first and second semester schedules that can be found here and here, but the items to watch are fiscal and energy reforms. On the tax side this will mean changes that both increase contributions and better collection. On energy it means reforms that open up the sector in some capacity to foreign involvement, bringing in the needed technology, expertise, and investment to make sure oil and gas exploration and production grows. Changes in telecommunications—to increase competition, strengthen regulation, and boost investment—are also vital, as this sector is both more expensive and less efficient than those of many other emerging economies, including Brazil, South Korea, and China. As important are judicial and political reforms to foster greater transparency and accountability more broadly.

How successful the Peña Nieto administration is in 2013 will determine not only the legacy of his six year term, but also in no small way Mexico’s future. The president and his team need to take advantage of the political capital and parties’ consensus before midterm politics emerge (which will occur in 2015 ). The next ten months will decide whether the optimism is warranted.

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The Educational Fair Students Moving Forward is of great importance for the students of Puerto Vallarta to choose the best option for their professional future.

So that the students  vallartences  know the educational offers that the city has in the medium superior and superior levels, Thursday the Educational Fair  Students Moving  Forward  2013 was inaugurated ,   an important guidance tool  so that the youth  can select the steps to follow for their formal education.

To the opening of said event  attended the Dean Mari a Guadalupe Anaya, president of the Board of Education, who in representation  of first  council  Ramon Guerrero Martinez pointed out that this event  unites the  different universities and pre-universities  of the municipality, giving the youths opportunities to plan their future without  leaving  the city in search of careers, not knowing  that the information  is available here.

Emphasizing again the priority that this municipal government has in different levels of education, being this reason to provide variety of supports in different colleges, also to back up through other social programs both students and parents.

Attorney Hugo Cesar Becerra Zepeda from the Educational Regional Delegation in the north coast (DRSE) likewise remarked that without doubt the fact that these youth can and have options within their community to choose any professional career gives this fair an additional value.

Activities like the one organized by City hall, are fundamentals, reasons why  invite, teachers and advisors, to come and learn  these different  educational offers, the final purpose being that in our lives we can choose the correct professional  career, it brings satisfaction both professionally and personally.

Among those offering this professional offer are:  Conalep, C.E.C.A.T.I., UNE, College Juana de Asberg, CU., UNIVA, IDEF, there are more.

This event is being held at Parque Hidalgo until Saturday Feb 2, hours 9 .m. till 6 p.m.

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The government of Jalisco said Friday that they are not 1.400 but 3.200 million pesos are needed to cover debts generated by the celebration of the Pan American Games which hosted the state in 2011.

Emilio González Márquez the governor of Jalisco, sent Thursday  loan credit application for 3.200 million pesos to settle the liabilities generated by the Games

González Márquez proposed a 20-year loan, which would imply that the debt would be inherited at least to the next three state administrations

The governmen state leader of the National Action Party (PAN), will conclude his term on March 1, when Jorge Aristoteles Sandoval Institutional Revolutionary Party(PRI) receive the entity with debt in excess of 26,000 million pesos

In 2011, the state government had to step out to these commitments and  asked for a Bank credit Interactions amounting of 1,400 million pesos, which had to be settled on December 21  2012. If not paid on 21 this month, state finances fall in nonperforming loans, according to the state Finance Minister, Martin Mendoza Lopez

Besides credit with the bank, the state government used money  to fund current spending. Other 1.400 million pesos that were needed for the organization of the sporting event and still owes 400 million pesos to suppliers, which generated "gap "of 3.200 billion pesos now missing, the official said Friday in a press conference.

The 2011 Pan American Games cost 8.672 million pesos, of which more than 4.681 were provided by the State of Jalisco, you could say nearly 61% 1.683 million by the federal government and rest between Guadalajara municipal government, sponsors, ticketing and tax benefits, according to a document distributed Friday by the Ministry of Finance

Of the total cost of the games, over 3,000 million for sports infrastructure 1.097 million to the construction of the Pan American Village, 1,700 million logistics development event, 1.428 million in equipment and infrastructure around the sports complex and the rest in promotion, operating expenses, security, aviation and studies and projects.

Local congressional lawmakers cited before the plenary, on Saturday at 11:00 hours (local time), the Secretary of Finance to justify the loan application.

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According to federal authorities the wife of President Enrique Peña Nieto Angelica Rivera, and Laura Vargas Carrillo

wife of Secretary the Interior, Miguel Angel Osorio Chong  respectively occupy the chair of the Citizens Advisory Council and the leadership of the National System for the Integral Development Family (DIF),