The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Even though Guadalajara is hosting the Gay Games in November and has been described by The New York Times, no less, as a city that “celebrates diversity,” the metropolitan area has an uncomfortably high rate of attacks on the LGBTIQ+ community.
Guadalajara authorities stepped in to ban a concert in the city that was reportedly to be given by Der Stürmer, a neo-Nazi metal band from Athens, Greece.
Year-end inflation
Annualized inflation for 2022 in Mexico closed in 7.82 percent, according to the Banco de Mexico, the country’s central bank.
Together with the coldest thermometer reading, Tuesday, January 17 saw the year’s worst day for air pollution in Guadalajara, with the state environment agency (Semadet) issuing four pre-contingency smog warnings (precontingencias atmosféricas) for different zones of the metropolitan area.
Continuing its ongoing spat with the Jalisco government, the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) has scored a notable victory after going to bat for three student activists who were detained by state police while allegedly trespassing on a controversial residential development on the northern perimeter of the city.
Even though the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office (FGE) maintains that the investigation into the murder of former governor Aristoteles Sandoval has been “clarified,” the agency is maintaining silence on what it believes are the motives for the killing, which occurred in December 2019 in Puerto Vallarta.
The December 31 death of Pope Emeritus Benedicto XVI stirred memories of his visit to Chapala in 1996.
Christmas in Guadalajara was a huge success this year, with more than 4.5 million people attended the city center’s Illusionante Festival, which concluded its activities after the January 6 Three Kings Day holiday.
University of Guadalajara (UdeG) Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí has vowed that the ground floor of the unfinished Museum of Environmental Sciences (MCA), located in the University Cultural Center (CCU) on the metro area’s northern beltway, will open this year, despite the continued lack of funding from the Jalisco State government.
