The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Restrictions on nonessential travel across the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are set to expire on May 21.
One day after Mexico recorded its highest ever daily Covid-19 death toll (353 on May 12), President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced plans to ease restrictions and reactivate the Mexican economy by allowing some schools,businesses and industries to resume operations.
A Covid-19 outbreak at the Puente Grande state penitentiary in Guadalajara accounts for just over one-tenth of all positive cases registered in the state of Jalisco.
Many Mexicans believed the election of a leftist president in 2018 would finally temper the arrogance of Mexico’s overprivileged business elite.
Reports from Mexico City suggest that many hospitals and ICUs are becoming saturated with Covid-19 patients, with hospital bed capacity in the capital shrinking rapidly.
Juan Ramón Álvarez López, the director of the Preparatoria Regional de Chapala, has accused municipal police of using excess force after he was detained on the evening of Friday, May 1, at an inspection checkpoint set up near the city limits at Chapala Haciendas.
Despite the health emergency, output of Mexico’s famous liquor has increased during the first three months of the year.
A Covid-19 outbreak at the Puente Grande state penitentiary in Guadalajara accounts for just over one-tenth of all positive cases registered in the state of Jalisco.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and his Covid-19 czar, Hugo López-Gatell, believe the country is well equipped to face the projected peak of the coronavirus epidemic in the first week of May.
