GUADALAJARA (Mexico), April 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The president and founder of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico, considered one of the world’s top literary events, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide.
The body of Raul Padilla, 68, was found in his home in Guadalajara along with a gun and a note, prosecutors in the state of Jalisco said.
Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro tweeted that he had been informed that Padilla “took his own life at his home.”
Padilla founded the book fair in 1987, and over the years it drew top writers from Latin America and around the world.
He was a fierce critic of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who had boycotted the book fair.
In November the president denounced the event as “a conservative forum. All the organic intellectuals go there to criticize us.” Lopez Obrador’s comments came after a member of his party was booed at the fair for defending the president’s policies. — NNN-AGENCIES
