General News

Downtown Guadalajara has really embraced the seasonal spirit this year, thanks to a host of activities provided by City Hall, accompanying the Ilusionante Festival offering free, open-air cultural events on the Paseo Alcalde through January 6.

Sunday, December 12, Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa, 24, won the 37th Guadalajara marathon in a record time of 2:12:28.  Kenyans Rhonzas Kilimo and Kiplimo Mitei finished second and third.

Quebec supports LGBTI+ community

The provincial government of Quebec will donate CAN$5,000 in 2022 to help in the fight to eradicate discrimination and violence against the LGBTI+ community in Jalisco, Stephanie Allard-Gomez, Quebec’s Delegate General to Mexico, said on a visit to Guadalajara this week.

AM39 touched down at the Guadalajara Airport before dawn Thursday, December 16, making history as the first ever direct commercial flight to this city from a European destination.

Jalisco’s Environmental Agency (Semadet) issued several Phase One air quality alerts in the Guadalajara metropolitan this week after two of the city’s ten monitoring stations registered pollution levels higher than 150 Imecas (Mexico’s standard for urban air quality measurements).

Most traditional December 12 festivities honoring La Virgen de Guadalupe are being suspended at lakeside for the second consecutive year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) has issued a recommendation to the governor of Jalisco in the case of Giovanni López, the 29-year-old who died shortly after being detained by Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos police officers on May 4, 2020.

Acclaimed Chilean novelist Diamela Eltit was the recipient of the FIL Prize for Literature at the opening ceremony of the International Book Fair (FIL).