Carlos Fuentes Bookstore
The University of Guadalajara has a worldwide prestige and is recognized for its work in the management and development of high-quality cultural projects. Among them, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, and in Los Angeles, California, LéaLA, the most ambitious program to disseminate and promote books and reading in Spanish in the United States.
It has a University Press, which is considered one of the most important in Latin America, and the Carlos Fuentes bookstore, a permanent link with the publishing industry and with the reading public, which will soon extend its services to the Spanish-speaking community of California, as an option that contributes to the dissemination of knowledge in a community eager to get closer to the Spanish culture and language.
Due to its great cultural development, Los Angeles has a significant number of bookstores, some of them iconic and very well positioned. Despite the great trend for e-commerce monopolized by the large platforms, bookstores continue to be a space for social coexistence around books, and like libraries, they are sustained thanks to the formation of communities.
So far, there is only one bookstore in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to the sale of books in Spanish and it specializes in children s literature. That is why, at the Carlos Fuentes Bookstore in Los Angeles, dreams, knowledge, ideas, as well as the desires to have and learn in Spanish will emerge.
The University of Guadalajara Foundation USA is the academic and cultural project of the University of Guadalajara in the United States that promotes the integral formation of the Mexican community and the development of its maximum potential in a multicultural and the development of its maximum potential in a multicultural environment.