The death of Raúl Padilla López continues to give people something to talk about, after the alleged suicide note he left in his apartment in Guadalajara was published on social networks and other media.
In the note, signed by Padilla, he wrote that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s a month and a half ago. In addition, he claimed to be an “enemy of state and federal authorities,” although this was not the reason for taking his own life.
He wrote that he had gone through the same or worse situations, and has faced them with integrity. However, his physical and mental health was in frank deterioration, he wrote.
He wrote, “I’m no longer useful as in other situations. I serve more by leaving.”
Padilla was the most important figure of the so-called University Group. He had enormous political power in Jalisco, and controlled the state’s highest house of studies. He was the promoter of the International Book Fair, the largest in Latin America, and created the University Network, a project that took University of Guadalajara campuses to all regions of Jalisco.
