The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As the Universidad de Guadalajara continues its classes online, the institution has launched a program to get laptops and iPads into the hands of high school and university students who don’t own them.
Two weeks since the launch of Jalisco Sin Hambre, the private/state government initiative has distributed 12,000 despensas (bags of essentials) to families struggling to survive the economic collapse provoked by the Covid-19 lockdown.
Guadalajara and Zapopan city employees got to work this week, handing out hundreds of free face masks at key points of the metropolitan area as Jalisco’s obligatory stay-at-home and mask-wearing order kicked in.
Guadalajara resident Alfredo Salazar has tried to be very careful since social distancing came into play in Guadalajara, even using the optimal type of mask and at times isolating himself from family members who felt ill. Salazar, after all, is 65 years old and suffers some conditions that put him at risk of dying from Coronavirus.
With people stuck at home during the coronavirus lockdown, water use in Guadalajara metro area households has increased significantly, causing shortages in some zones.
Municipal workers are digging 700 additional grave sites at Guadalajara’s Panteón de Mezquitán cemetery as a backup in case the city experiences a sharp spike in Covid-19 fatalities, says Oscar Villalobos, chief of municipal services.
A video has been posted on YouTube showing Alejandrina Guzmán, the daughter of jailed drug capo Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and other women packing food and supplies into boxes for distribution to needy seniors in the Guadalajara metropolitan area.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has called on Mexican drug cartels to stop handing out packages of food and essential supplies to the country’s poorest citizens during the current health emergency.
A California appeals court has ordered the dismissal of the case against Naasón Joaquín García, the 50-year-old spiritual leader of the Guadalajara-based Luz del Mundo fundamentalist church, who has been held without bail since June 2019.
