Chapultepec

Guadalajara has lot's of big avenues, but what makes chapultepec so unique ?... well maybe it is the infrstructure that has this avenue, monuments and great nightlife it has.

there's a lot of things to do here in chapultepec, interesting stores, bars and places where you can go and spend your time worthly.

Sometimes in the nights you will see different events of different styles of people, like one time i went there and saw a big exposition of motorcycles and all the riders and different biking gangs, it was very interesting to see all this people together as a urban group, and then another day i went and saw a hippie expo, so it's very unique to go, you always see something different and never gets old.

I've visited chapu lots of times, and i like the variety of bars they have, they're all different, and you can just go there and if you get bored of one you can just go to other one.

I really recommend chapu as a place to go while you're staying here in Guadalajara, it is worth to go and spend some hours either in the night or day, but definently there's more things to do in the night.

The only thing that turns me off, is that crime is notorious, and it's very dangerous to walk back to your car, there's been a lot of assaults, and purse picking, so i recommend you to be safe and try to go with a lot of people, also i've been experienced some really weird people that try to convince you to walk with them, and when they get you far from people they'll take your stuff away, but this are just minor problems that can be avoid easily, but i think maybe a little bit of more police officers would be alright.

Drug War in Mexico

We all have been victims, all the country has been witness of a violent drug war that started back on 2006 and has left thousands and thousands of victims, including lots of innocents.
This bloody war is between drug cartels fighting for states to control all the drug trade of the country and to the U.S, and also against Mexican goverment forces.

There's about 11 drug cartels in the whole country: 

1. Sinaloa cartel
2. Gulf cartel
3. Juarez cartel
4. Knights templar cartel
5. Tijuana cartel
6. La familia cartel
7. Los zetas
8. Beltrán Leyva cartel
9. Jalisco new generation cartel
10. Independent cartel of Acapulco
11. La Barredora

There's been claims that 9 of 10 victims of the drug war are members of the organized-crime groups, but this is very questioned in other sources, and me as a citizen i dont't belive it, because i see this war everyday, and even know a bunch of people that has suffered this very bad, with kidnapping and even murder.

The drug war murders have been escalating in the past few years, and it's very sad that people it's starting to get used to something so unhuman like this, we see killings everyday, but we just don't care anymore and think it's very normal, but a lot of people is suffering the consequences of this bloody drug war.

Also the media, Journalism suffer consquences, here in the country it's so dangerous to go to cities and do a report about a shooting or murder, because in minutes you will have someone frightening you that you have to stop because you're gonna get killed if you don't. There's been already murders of journalists, and it's hard to report something without getting a warning.

Do you think this drug war that started Felipe Calderón was worth it ?, do you think it's gonna have positive results in a future , and maybe someday stop?, LET'S CHANGE THIS COUNTRY, but let's not wait for this to get worse, and let's start to raise our VOICE.

Guadalajara City

How does it feel to be a tapatio?

First of all, Guadalajara is one of the most beautiful cities in Mexico, it has a lot of beautiful infraestructure, people and enviroments. It's a big city with a lot of opportuinities if you're up to look for them, everytime i wake up i can see people working hard smiling and always looking to feed their families, people with a lot of courage to keep going on. Everywhere you go it's different, you can find really old places, or new urban infrastructure, it's not the same go to andares than go to dowtown, it's such a unique city where you can find anything you want. Not to mention all the things you can do here, nightlife it's such a big part of the city, anyday of the week you can enjoy this nightlife, from different kind of bars to a big variety of nightclubs depending on your likes of music and people.

I feel so proud to belong to such a beautiful city like Guadalajara, it's just such an amazing place to be and enjoy it everyday, and i've found such valuable people in this city, not to mention we have the most beautiful girls in the whole country, and all the culture this city keeps everyday i just feel so proud to be a TAPATIO.

FOUNDATION:

After the conquest of Meshico,Tenochtitlán, the other indian kingdoms of what is today Mexico didn't oppose the same resistance as the aztecs, so the spanish didn't have that many difficults to extend their colonies, and make the New Spain( Nueva España).

Guadalajara was funded 4 in occasions, the first of them by Nuño de Guzmán. And because he was from Guadalajara , Castilla, Spain, he decided to established the city with that Name. But this one was in the actual state of Nayarit.

2 years later Guadalajara moved to Tlacotan(1535) but they had lots of attacks from the natives, so they decided to move it again inmediately.

The 63 Spanish survivors of the massacre and the natives of Valle de Mexico finally stayed in Valle de Atemajac established as Guadalajara.

The founders of Guadalajara were 63 spanish people and 200 indians (natives) from Mexico city.

 

ADDED TOWNS

1. ZAPOPAN:  funded by natives on the XII century, but abandoned because of the social decadence, and the constant wars between ethnies.
2. Tlajomulco: Funded by Nuño de Guzmán at the same time he conquer the indians in Tonalá.
3. Tonalá: Funded by zapotecas, that came to mix with the Tonaltecas.
4. El Salto: In 1818 it's called Jesús María with the famous Salto de Juanacatlán, a water fall of atleast 20 meters.

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CURRENT LIFE:

Guadalajara is one of the most cultural cities in the continent, it's an icon of the whole country. It is the headquarters of lot's of events of music, movies, dancing, etc.

one of the most important events are: Guadalajara international film festival, fiestas de octubre, feria internacional del libro.

 

Sports in Guadalajara are very important, such as soccer, boxing, golf. It hosted the 2011 pan american games.

 

 

 

Nightlife in Gudalajara is such a big thing, that we enjoy a great nightlife where you can find a big variety of places to go such as Chapultepec street, or the big variety of nightclubs that this city has and offers you.

 

 

Political Life 

It is divided in 3 political powers executive, legislative and judiciary.The executive is in charge of the governor of the state with the period of 6 years. The legislative it's conformed by local deputies.The judiciary it's the one that applies the law, the governor names the members of this power.

The actual governor is from the political team PRI, Aristoteles Sandoval from 2013-2018 and giving the end of the political team that was in charge for 3 consecutive six year term PAN.

 

Famous Landmarks

1. Guadalajara cathedral: it is probably one of the most famous landmarks in all the city, on july 31st of 1561 Pedro de Ayala put the first stone of this building and blessed it, everything was going normal till 1574 while people was taking a mass some neighbors shot to the air and some of them went down to the church and it got burned. On 1618 the architect Martín casillas finished it. 

2-Rotonda de los hombres ilustres: builded in 1952 by Vicente Mediola. 

3-Degollado theatre: the building was started on march 5th by the goverment of José Santos Degollado, by the architect Jacobo Gálavez and it opened doors 10 years later.

Important dates of the city 

The anniversary of the foundation of Guadalajara: it's one of the biggest celebrations in the city, each year the celebration starts from 8:30 am to 10:00 pm in some important landmarks. It has been organized since 2000 with series of artistic, cultural, civic events to conmemorate the foundation of Guadalajara city in 1542.

Romeria de Zapopán: Annual pilgrimage that takes place from the Guadalajara cathedral to the zapopan church on october 12th.

 

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