The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Merchants and workers on Calle Obregón in downtown Guadalajara this week expressed their concern about the strategy taken by the state government to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
FM4 Paso Libre, the Guadalajara facility that aims to assist people moving north from Central America to the United States, celebrated its tenth anniversary May 11, smack in the middle of the coronavirus crisis and the resulting lockdown, which brought disruption to normal life.
The Cinemex chain has announced that it will be screening movies at a drive-in (autocine) set to open in the car park of the Plaza Patria mall on June 1.
Relatives of inmates at the Puente Grande penitentiary outside Guadalajara say prison authorities are keeping them in the dark about the Covid-19 outbreak that – up until press time – has infected 93 prisoners.
The 2020 rainy season will start between June 9 and 15, according to predictions made by the University of Guadalajara’s Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology (IAM).
Additional routes have been set up as part of the free transportation network allowing medical personnel to get to their places of work in Guadalajara in safety.
University of Guadalajara experts disagree with federal health authorities’ estimation that the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic will hit the metropolitan area on June 13.
The retail zone of the Mercado de Abastos wholesale market in Guadalajara was closed for three days this week to enable additional sanitization measures to be implemented.
Guadalajara city hall is reaching out to restaurant wait staff whose livelihoods have been hit hard by the coronavirus lockdown.
