The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In an unpublicized display of good will and even feminist convictions, a group representing Jalisco, including Joanna Santillan, the wife of Governor Enrique Alfaro, served tamales and atole, while the 28-member Jalisco State Choir sang a Christmas program, to hundreds of incarcerated women.
Ken Salazar, the recently appointed U.S. ambassador to Mexico, made his first visit to Guadalajara last week, taking in a busy schedule that included participating in a forum on bilateral relations at the International Book Fair (FIL) and reviewing ongoing work at the site of the new U.S. consulate building in the city.
Some 20,000 employees and students from the Universidad de Guadalajara filled the Plaza de Liberacion Wednesday, December 1, (nearly all wore face masks) to protest the Jalisco state government’s ungenerous budget allocation for the university for 2022.
Atlas have reached the semi finals of the Liga Mx 2021 clausura soccer championship, after defeating Monterrey in the quarters last weekend.
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has issued a recommendation to Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez demanding that he apologize and offer compensation to young people who were arbitrarily detained during protests over the death of an Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos resident in early May, 2020.
Author/historian Michael Hogan and his wife, textile artist Lucinda Mayo, hosted Maeve von Heynitz, the Irish Ambassador to Mexico, at their Guadalajara home this week.
The second edition of the Navidalia Christmas theme park has opened its doors in the Parque Avila Camacho on Guadalajara’s Avenida Manuel Avila Camacho, a few blocks from Plaza Patria.
In a world increasingly characterized by doomsday predictions of environmental catastrophe, renowned British naturalist Jane Goodall stands out like a shining beacon.
An eagerly anticipated event at this week’s Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) was a round-table discussion titled, “Equality versus freedom, freedom versus equality: is it possible to resolve the perennial tension?”
