The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
After weeks of playing her cards close to her chest, the state’s new culture secretary, Giovana Jaspersen, held a surprise press conference with Wednesday to introduce the newly selected artistic director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de Jalisco (OFJ), Monterrey-born Jésus Medina Villarreal, who in December guest-directed the OFJ and the Jalisco Ballet in Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker.”
The mayors of Jocotepec and Chapala are on board for a new era of transparency, joining in as affiliates of the Jalisco branch of the Colectivo Ciudadanos por Municipios Transparentes (CIMTRA), a national network of citizen advocacy groups related to government accountability.
Changes are afoot in the Jalisco government’s emissions testing program, known as the Programa de Verificación Vehicular Obligatorio.
Expectations for a rapid end to the acute fuel shortage in Jalisco were dashed Wednesday after Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro came back from a meeting with the nation’s interior minister in Mexico City with disappointing news.
The contract of Marco Parisotto, the Canadian musical director of the Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO), has not been renewed, the state Culture Department (Secretaria de Cultura) announced in a press release prior to the Christmas holiday.
Recently installed Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro has accused his predecessor of “fabricating” crime statistics in the state during the past three years.
Thousands of pilgrims have started to swarm into the rural village of Cajititlan de los Reyes (roughly located half-way between Guadalajara and Chapala) to pay devotion to the town’s religious patrons Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar, better known as the Wisemen of the Orient.
Weeks of celebration of the town’s spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount) endSunday, January 20.
About 140 refugee applications were filed between January and August of 2018 in Jalisco, according to the Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (COMAR). That figure may not seem impressive, but it’s a massive increase from last year’s four claims and distinguishes Jalisco as the eighth state with the most asylum claims.
