General News

Guadalajara city hall this week honored municipal police officer Samuel Dávila Cárdenas, who died after responding to a robbery report at a home in the Providencia neighborhood.

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.

Guadalajara municipal authorities last week opened a new (C5) police and emergency services operations center that municipal authorities say will be able to swiftly respond to reports of robbery and assault, and also help in the search for missing persons.

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.

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. 

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.

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.