Author: Jesús Aguado (Jesús Aguado)

Just four months after the founding of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Colonial Homes San Miguel, and in the middle of pandemic times, Alma Ramírez and Greg Gunter, donated last week US$2,000 to La Biblioteca for its scholarship program.

Hundreds of masks were delivered to various organizations with the intention of reaching more people, and for people to use them at home or have them on hand when they are carrying out activities that warrant protection against the pandemic. The various designs are the product of an alliance between Tequila Casa Dragones, Interprotección, and...

Once again, sewer water has been discharged into the community of Don Diego. This time it did not go to Presa de La Cantera, but directly onto the street. Although the street is not populated, a complaint was placed and the authorities responded.

The Guadalupe-Reyes season is underway. It is not a surname, but a period of 40 consecutive days of celebrations that stretch from the commemoration of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Dec. 12 to Three Kings Day on Jan. 6.

A year ago, the idea of the first urban gallery in San Miguel arose, and it is now a reality in Malanquín, at the “cajón” bridge. The idea was to provide positivity. “We cannot intervene in public spaces with aggressive ideas,” said the director of Culture and Traditions, and initiator of the project, Paulina Cadena....

It was a water leak that started a social movement in the Nuevo Pantoja neighborhood on May 15 that ended with 11 injured state police officers and dozens of bloodied residents. The payment that inhabitants had to make for water—up to 700 per family—was unsustainable, and they demanded a solution.

The project, which was supposed to have been ready by Nov. 11, was delivered 20 days late, on Dec. 1. The project, which the state government called the “magna work” of San Miguel de Allende, began Dec. 26 of last year, with an investment of 326 million pesos from the State Payroll Tax. Now accessory work will follow.

Beyond receiving food donations, inhabitants of urban and rural areas of San Miguel will have warm cover during the cold season.

Sanitary Jurisdiction II and the Municipal Government have stated that those most vulnerable to COVID-19 infection and spreading the virus to the elderly at home are workers, housewives, and especially students.

During the first wave of the pandemic—from January to October 2020—it took a month for the municipality’s caseload of COVID-19 cases to reach the hundreds.