The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Mexico chapter of Democrats Abroad (DA-Mexico) has selected Guadalajara as host city for its 2022 Annual General Meeting, to be held March 11 through 13. It will be the organization’s first in-person conference since 2019.
Jalisco Administrative Tribunal (TJA) magistrates last week approved the “habitability” of residential apartments being sold in the Villa Panamericana (2011 Pan American Games athletes village), which will allow them to be officially escriturados (titled).
Guadalajara’s Michin Aquarium has expanded its Achcalli farm to include several new species of animals, including flamingos, ducks, turtles, capybaras and miniature pigs.
Both Guadalajara and Mexico City have canceled their New Year celebrations amid rising Covid-19 cases.
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.
A firefighter from a Jalisco Environment Department (Semadet) brigade has been sentenced to five years in prison for starting a major fire in the Bosque La Primavera on March 30, 2020.
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.”
New year concert
Acclaimed Ukrainian violinist Anastasiya Petryshak, 27, will perform with the Orquesta Sinfonica Sinaloa de las Artes at a special start-of-year concert scheduled Saturday, January 8, 7:30 p.m. at the Conjunto de las Artes, located just off Guadalajara’s northern periferico (beltway).
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.
