The municipal government of San Miguel de Allende approved a motion to recognize La Colmena Bakery with a plaque for its 120 years of service to the San Miguel community.
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New strain of COVID-19 in Mexico
On Sun., Jan. 10, the Tamaulipas government reported the first patient in Mexico with a new strain of COVID-19 called B117. According to the Department of Health, the patient has been intubated since Saturday.
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La Colmena Bakery to Receive Honorary Plaque
The municipal government of San Miguel de Allende approved a motion to recognize La Colmena Bakery with a plaque for its 120 years of service to the San Miguel community.

New strain of COVID-19 in Mexico
On Sun., Jan. 10, the Tamaulipas government reported the first patient in Mexico with a new strain of COVID-19 called B117. According to the Department of Health, the patient has been intubated since Saturday.

Guanajuato Continues on Red Light
Guanajuato’s Department of Health announced that the state will continue operating under red epidemiological traffic light until Jan. 17.

Doctor with Adverse Reactions to the COVID-19 Vaccine Now in Stable Condition
According to the Ministry of Health, a 32-year-old doctor from the General Hospital in Monclova, Coahuila who received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was hospitalized after presenting an allergic reaction half an hour after the dose was applied.
NEWS

Tourism at a Low Point: The Industrial Sector Takes the Lead
Although in San Miguel de Allende the tourism sector was the hardest hit in 2020, it appears that this industry will grow in 2021, as hotel chains such as Marriot, Pueblo Bonito, Hyatt, and Hilton will come to town. Concurrently, companies in San Miguel’s industrial zone should also expand, and that labor pool, currently 6,500, should increase.

The Allende Celebration is Nearing
Busts, as well as standing and seated equestrian sculptures in the city pay permanent homage to Ignacio Jesús Pedro Regalado de Allende y Unzaga, the hero whose surname it adopted, and who led up to 40,000 men during the armed independence uprising of 1810.

Additional Hectares To Fall Under Preservation of Charco del Ingenio
In reality nobody knows which hectares will be included in the Charco del Ingenio Ecological Preservation Zone, but fines were indeed levied for some evasions. In the end, everything went back to how it was originally decreed.
ART

Let UUFSMA’s World Class Music Enliven Your Soul
While current events mitigate against the usual plethora of musical options in San Miguel’s arts scene, there is still one place we can hear SMA’s diverse, outstanding music every week, and it is music for the soul. Our Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende curates and orchestrates performances featuring musicians from all over and from all times, free for anyone

San Miguel Prose Café
Please join us for Prose Café’s inaugural event of 2021, Thurs, Jan 7, live via Zoom, featuring three remarkable novelists. We’ll conclude our evening with a Q&A session between the authors and our audience.

Christmas Contrasts
With a teared eye all I could think about was how strange a world it is – where clean and bright and healthy souls could sing with such joy and spirit at Christmas time while others lived in such gut wrenching misery.

Art opening “Permanent Painting”
On Friday, December 11, the art exhibition “Permanent Painting” opened at the Cardinal Gallery on Mesones 76A, in San Miguel de Allende. Nine Mexican artists are featured in what Curator Ixchel Ledesma calls an exhibition of contemporary art which seeks to “evoke” and “question” the meaning of painting.
NGO NEWS

100 Women Who Care Cancels January Meeting
With enormous regret, the 100 Women Who Care Steering Committee has decided it would not be responsible for us to meet for our scheduled Jan. 18 in-person meeting.

How Mercado Sano is Coping with COVID
The market had shut its doors early last year as the seriousness of the pandemic became known, and had gradually reopened, amid rumors that the administration was having difficulty enforcing the use of face coverings, which the Centers for Disease Control has been recommending since last spring for all public gatherings.

Lecture: Ending the Pandemic Slump: Is MMT the Answer
Lecture
“Ending the Pandemic Slump: Is MMT the Answer?”
With Michael Roberts

Rotary Presentation “COVID-19 Mexico Update”
The Midday Rotary Club of San Miguel de Allende starts off 2021 with an in-depth look at the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

Writers’ Conference January Online Programs
Don’t let COVID prevent you from attending these world-class literary events, our January programs, right in your own home!

A day with Ana Margarita Guerra Vázquez, founder of Patitas de Humanidad, San Miguel de Allende A.C.
A perfect day for me could be a Wednesday, since I find them a little more interesting because of my participation in the radio.

Short Film Script Workshop
This workshop taught by Laura Santullo will provide a theoretical approach to several of the fundamental tools when writing a film script through a hands-on process of guided writing.

Elías Guerrero Pérez: Advertising production and edition. XESQ
For me a perfect day is Sunday. I very much enjoy getting up early so I can feel the cold morning air on my face as I ride my bicycle.
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