General News

As in years past, the Guadalajara Zoo has gone one step further in embracing the seasonal spirit, hiring an underwater Santa Claus to join the fish and other sea creatures in the aquarium to astonish the little ones.

Downtown Guadalajara has really embraced the seasonal spirit this year, thanks to a host of activities provided by City Hall, accompanying the Ilusionante Festival offering free, open-air cultural events on the Paseo Alcalde through January 6.

Women from the Me Too UdG (University of Guadalajara) collective have described a public apology issued by Rector Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí regarding the sexual harassment women have encountered within the academic institution over the years as “hollow, empty and opportunistic.”

Quebec supports LGBTI+ community

The provincial government of Quebec will donate CAN$5,000 in 2022 to help in the fight to eradicate discrimination and violence against the LGBTI+ community in Jalisco, Stephanie Allard-Gomez, Quebec’s Delegate General to Mexico, said on a visit to Guadalajara this week.

Even with inflation this year expected to be close to eight percent, economists are warning that beginning-of-year price hikes in goods and services ­— often referred to as the cuesta de enero — will hit pocketbooks hard, and are likely to drag on through the first five months of the year.

Jalisco’s Environmental Agency (Semadet) issued several Phase One air quality alerts in the Guadalajara metropolitan this week after two of the city’s ten monitoring stations registered pollution levels higher than 150 Imecas (Mexico’s standard for urban air quality measurements).

Has the Guadalajara city center ever looked quite so stylish for the festive season?

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has issued a recommendation to the governor of Jalisco in the case of Giovanni López, the 29-year-old who died shortly after being detained by Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos police officers on May 4, 2020.