The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
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.
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.
There was little or no activity in the center of Guadalajara this week as most people heeded messages to stay indoors.
With people stuck at home during the coronavirus lockdown, water use in Guadalajara metro area households has increased significantly, causing shortages in some zones.
Taxis come to abused nurses’ aid
After reports that some nurses have been the targets of discrimination by city bus drivers, around 30 taxi drivers belonging to Guadalajara’s Codigo Rojo collective decided offer them their service free of charge.
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.
The Abastos wholesale market in Guadalajara has installed a disinfection tunnel through which everyone entering the facility is obliged to pass.
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.
The normally bustling streets and plazas of Mexico’s second largest city emptied this week after Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro asked everyone to stay at home for five days in a voluntary measure designed to break the spread of Covid-19 during a “critical” phase.
