Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - After organizing this year's Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez Marquez, announced they will seek the nomination to host the Olympics in 2020 or 2024.

"As we finish the Pan American Games I am initiating the registration process for the Olympic Games," said Gonzalez Marquez in an interview with Carlos Loret de Mola for First News. "It took over 15 years to achieve the Pan American Games in Jalisco and we have a long-term vision."

To get to host the Games, the state of Jalisco has spent, according to figures from the president himself, 3 billion pesos since 2006, but he noted that the infrastructure will serve for making Jalisco eligible for the Olympics.

The governor said that since the Pan American Games began there is "...a different mindset. We know we can do great things, we have demonstrated that..." He noted that there have been no incidents during the Games. "We have had good coordination between the police, people are happy, and the athletes especially are surprised." Athletes from other countries have said that Mexico is a "wonderland," despite the fact that, due to bad press, some had said they were afraid to come.