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Book Fair refuses to be silenced

Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro made an impassioned defense of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) at its inauguration November 28, rebutting recent criticism by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador that the humongous literary showcase is a “conservative” event that targets his liberal government.


Car-free activity returns to city center

Tapatios took to the avenues of Guadalajara last Sunday after the municipal government gave the green light for the resumption of the car-free exercise activity, the Via RecreActiva, following eight months of forced closure. 

Calling out gender-based violence

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, November 25, activists erected what they called an “anti-monument” to victims of violence in Guadalajara’s Plaza de Armas.

Lopez Obrador hits out at FIL president

Supporters of Raúl Padilla, the president of the International Book Fair (FIL) and a key figure in the Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG) hierarchy, have leaped to his defense after Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused him of belonging to “a bloc of conservatives” that seeks to denigrate his administration.