The municipal government’s Department of Culture and Traditions inaugurated the first station of the program “Libros Libres” (“Free Books”) in Colonia Guadalupe.
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AMLO Tests Positive for COVID-19
The president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador published on his social networks on Sunday afternoon that he is infected with COVID-19.
AMLO Authorizes Vaccine Purchases by Private Sector
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced today in a morning conference that "any local company or government that wants to purchase vaccines for application in Mexico has authorization."
Fifth Mobile Unit of Patronato Pro Niños Blessed
On Tues., Jan. 12, the new mobile unit of the Patronato Pro Niños was blessed. Its mission is to bring medical and dental care to communities. The religious ceremony was held in front of the parish of San Miguel Arcángel with Father José Alejandro Perales in charge of blessing the unit.
Toy, blanket, and Facemask Donation
Abraham Vázquez and Leslie Coronado, students from the María del Refugio Aguilar Institute, together with the San Miguel de Allende Red Cross, donated toys, blankets and facemasks to the inhabitants of the Cinco Señores community in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
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Let’s Breathe for Life
“Respiremos por la Vida” (Let’s Breathe for Life) is the most recent health program in San Miguel de Allende and its purpose is to provide oxygen to people who truly need it.
Municipal Presidency News
After a meeting between state and local authorities, the city government announced that joint public works, with a value of over 50 million pesos, will take place this year
Emigration From Rural Towns Leads to CONAFE School Closures
About 284 communities in the municipality of San Miguel de Allende are considered vulnerable and marginalized.
In Rural Areas Winter Doesn’t Feel So Cold
In the San Miguel de Allende communities at the highest altitudes or in the mountainous areas, temperatures can drop to minus five degrees Celsius.
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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.
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Jóvenes Adelante Offers a Future of Hope via Education
Less than a week before Jóvenes Adelante’s 2021 full application process even opens, almost 350 students have already submitted initial application forms to Jóvenes Adelante (JA). Over 140 have qualified to submit the full applications so far. Who knows how many more will apply before the deadline, Feb. 12th?
Border Challenges for Biden and the Future
Join San Miguel PEN on Tues, Jan 26, at 6pm, San Miguel and Central Standard Time for the inaugural PEN Zoom Winter Lecture, in which Corchado will discuss “the epicenter of my homelands, and the challenges ahead for the Biden administration.”
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.
Tribute to Clavelito – Postponed
This concert, full of love and gratitude, is dedicated to that great being of strict goodness and sublime heart that I had the happiness and fortune to have as a father.
San Miguel Poetry Café Presents Acclaimed Poet Cecilia Woloch
The San Miguel Poetry Café will host internationally acclaimed poet Cecilia Woloch, who will read via Zoom on Thurs, Jan 28, 5pm.
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.
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