The other cathedral, more recent than La Purisima, was built in the late 1800s and dedicated to Nuestro Señor de Misericordia (Our Merciful Lord), which honors a vision of Christ seen after an extremely destructive earthquake.

[2][3] The following day, a Sunday, when the faithful were attending a Mass outside of the destroyed church, a vision of the crucifix was claimed to have been seen in the sky by more than 2,000 people, lasting approximately 30 minutes.

On September 29, 1911, José de Jesús Ortiz y Rodríguez, who was the Archbishop of Guadalajara at the time signed a legal document approving as a true and given fact the appearance of Jesus Christ.

Which became known as the “Miracle of Ocotlan”, festivities then began in 1912 in honor of El Señor de la Misericordia (Lord of Mercy).

[10] One of the most important buildings is the new library and media center, recently opened to the public in 2000, and operated by the University of Guadalajara.

It features an impressive lobby of multiple heights in which the main elements of the visual composition of the space are the books themselves.

Jalisco is a popular tourist destination which is filled with beautiful cultural traditions such as mariachis, tequila, Ballet Folklórico, the Mexican Hat Dance, charros, sombreros, and much more.

Seven vehicles carrying Mexico paramilitary gendarmerie officers were sent to Ocotlan as they had received a report of an attack on municipal police.

[14] In August 2014, President Enrique Peña Nieto had launched a strong 5,000 Gendarmerie unit to combat economic crime.

The cartel’s goal is to have their territories free of federal police so they can continue with illicit economic activity, extortion, and street taxation.

Law enforcement has been ambushed previously in this town and many other surrounding cities and states in which federal officials have been killed but never so many in a single attack.