With the Jewish High Holidays nearing the end of the ten days that Rosh Hashanah inaugurates and Yom Kippur closes, Judith Jenya, Sunday’s UUFSMA Zoom Service guest speaker, will focus on her awe for the mysteries of life and death that the two events inscribe in Jewish tradition.
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.
The Baja Whale Miracle and More Travel News
Every year gray whales make their way from the Bering and Chukchi seas in the arctic to the lagoons of Baja in the world’s longest mammalian migration. It’s nothing short of a miracle that these giant animals swim over 5,000 miles south to Baja to have their babies in protected and warm waters.
One of the bays where they raise their calves is Magdalena Bay, home to a comfortable whale watching camp.
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.
Learning to Live in an Upended World: Animals without us
While we, humans have been in lockdown, animals around the world are taking advantage of our absence. South African lions have been spotted sleeping peacefully on a stretch of a normally tourist-heavy highway.
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.