Jocotepec City Hall building. Photo: Héctor Ruíz.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía: So far in January alone, the Jocotepec City Hall has a record of 90 officials who have been infected with Covid-19, which has affected the operation of a large percentage of the departments.
Among the affected departments is that of Tourism and Handicrafts, with one positive case, as well as the Treasury, where its head, Marcela Góngora Jiménez, also tested positive.
In Social Communication, as of the closing of this edition, at least two cases had been confirmed and are currently in isolation, said Felipe Aguilar, director of said agency.
There are currently 25 active cases within the City Hall, of which so far no serious cases have been reported in any of those affected.
On the other hand, at least 23 new cases of coronavirus in less than a week were registered in the municipality of Jocotepec, according to official figures from Radar Jalisco.
This resulted in 780 accumulated cases in the Lakeside municipality, with a persistent upward trend, since according to municipal medical authorities, the real upturn after the patron saint festivities is expected in mid-February.
However, doctors of the municipality assured that this figure is far from the full number, since this is only the official figure, without counting the infections detected by private medical institutions or even infections that were never detected.
According to municipal authorities, as of January 27th, 90 public servants of the Jocotepec City Council alone tested positive for the virus, which has affected the functioning of a large percentage of the departments.
Translated by Amy Esperanto
By Leticia Trejo
Although the title of this article invites you to think that I will write about the joy of sexual pleasure, I regret to inform you that this is not the case. The pleasure of knowing that you love yourself has to do with those little flashes of happiness when you find yourself making good decisions for your health. They may be only brief seconds, but they are full of pride. Imagine, you are in a restaurant and the waiter asks you, what are you going to drink; thoughts of flavors that explode in your mouth like the taste of sugar in a cola, or the creamy and bubbly texture of a rich craft beer quickly go through your mind, but for some reason out of your mouth comes a «I’d like a glass of water without ice for me»: I’d like a glass of water without ice, please. The sky is shining, the day is brighter and you didn’t know why, but when they bring you the glass of water you enjoy every sip as if it were the first time you drink this precious liquid.
One of the signs that you are appreciating yourself more is precisely this kind of decision. You find yourself preparing a salad for lunch, you buy a box of chocolates and it lasts you more than three months, you even forget that there is chocolate in your pantry, the bread hardens in the cupboard and the tortillas become hard in the refrigerator. The anxiety to eat everything has diminished, it has become small, and your self-esteem has become bigger. This is not a fact that happens overnight, in reality these small changes have been developing through a deeper state of consciousness, which is being created with small daily actions. For example: before brushing your teeth, it was a mechanical and unconscious fact where you did not realize that this brushing lasted only 30 seconds, when you make it conscious you stay in front of the mirror of your bathroom feeling where the brush passes, you stay more seconds in each area of your mouth, you repeat the brushing, you open your mouth more, now you also brush your tongue until you feel that the cleaning has reached all the spaces of your mouth and the feeling of pleasure for feeling your teeth clean represents small flashes of happiness. Yes, happiness.
Taking care of our health can be simpler than it seems, and more satisfying than we want to admit, it has nothing to do with spending a few thousand pesos in sophisticated medical studies, MRIs and scientific experts that give us approval and attest to our well-being. The intimate pleasure of knowing that you love yourself has more to do with what you do for yourself on a daily basis. Smiling at yourself in front of the mirror, dancing alone in your room, cleaning your shoes, washing your clothes, reorganizing your closet, going to the market to buy for yourself what you are going to cook later, buying a comfortable pillow, changing your sheets, and so on. Happiness is hidden in each of these actions that you make of you for you.
«People look with the expectation that eventually they will be happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking into the future,» said Eckart Tolle which reinforces the idea that it is presence, YOUR presence in every detail of the actions you perform that will make you notice the care, love and gentleness with which you treat yourself. Then you will stop blaming the other, resentment will settle into the corner where it should stay, and health, well-being, and happiness will find a permanent home in your life.
Protección Civil y Bomberos de Chapala atendieron la emergencia el pasado seis de febrero.
Redacción. – Un hombre de la población de San Juan Tecomatlán, municipio de Poncitlán fue rescatado del suicidio por personal de Protección Civil y Bomberos de Chapala cuando éste pretendía saltar del puente peatonal que se ubica sobre la carretera Chapala – Guadalajara, al ingreso de la cabecera municipal.
El masculino de quien no se tiene mayor referencia, fue bajado del puente del que pretendía saltar por el personal de Protección Civil, luego de que lograran disuadirlo utilizando los primeros auxilios psicológicos de emergencia.
La persona rescatada quedó al cuidado de su madre cuando terminó la emergencia, durante la tarde del domingo seis de febrero.
Jocotepec’s Highway Department attended the accident.
A collision occurred at the access to the Jocotepec beltway during midday on January 26, leaving two vehicles damaged.
The area where the accident occurred has unstable asphalt which causes motorists to get out of control, in addition, there are no signs or signage at the intersection to instruct drivers who do not know the area.
Translated by Kerry Watson
The red SUV damaged in the accident.
A head-on collision occurred in Ajijic on the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, between Rio Bravo and Seis Esquinas, in the area of the speed bumps. A red Audi SUV and a white Dodge pickup were involved in the accident. According to reports, the driver of the white pickup left the scene of the accident.
The accident was attended by traffic police, while traffic was held up due to the accident.
Translated by Christalle Dalsted
Facade of Chapala’s City Hall. Photo: Mr. Arturo Ortega.
Editor. – The Institute of Transparency and Public Information and Protection of Personal Data of the State of Jalisco (ITEI) ordered the Municipality of Chapala to publish in its internet portal biographical information on officials and information on administrative penalties.
During the Third Ordinary Session, the Plenary of the Council of the ITEI required the City Council to publish the information as required by Article 8, point 1, section V in accordance with file 514/2021 of the transparency appeal.
Since “no data was located in the reference section” of the Municipal Government’s website, the information must be published or updated in the next 15 days. If the information does not exist, the provisions of the transparency law must be followed.
The ITEI Board determined that the Municipality had already fulfilled the requests for payroll, vehicle fleet and internal regulation (information in files 2796/2021, 526/2021, 3316/2021 and 979/2021).
In November 2021, the ITEI fined Víctor Merino de Jesús, the head of the Transparency Unit of Chapala during the 2018 – 2021 administration, for not delivering complete information regarding internal regulations, the Municipal Development Plan 2018 -2021 and the Social Prevention of the municipality.
Translated by Elisabeth Shields
Truck of the state prosecutor’s office of the state of Jalisco. Illustrative picture
Juan Gabriel «N» was arrested in San Nicolás de Ibarra on charges of domestic violence and aggravated injury. The arrest was made by members of the Jalisco District Attorney’s Office.
The man was captured when he was on Francisco I. Madero Street and Obregón Street in the town of San Nicolás de Ibarra, in Chapala. The arrest is related to events that were reported to the Prosecutor’s Office in 2021.
Translated by Kerry Watson
The vehicles came close to colliding head-on.
Once again there was an accident on the Guadalajara-Morelia highway on the El Molino – Jocotepec stretch, involving two vehicles that came close to colliding head-on.
The accident occurred during the morning of Sunday, January 23, and caused traffic chaos at the point where the highway changes from four to two narrow lanes, which are also in poor condition. Just a week before this collision, there was a serious accident in which three people lost their lives, including a two year old child.
Translated by Rebecca Zittle
Schools in the municipality are worried about the situation of contagions after the festivities of Señor del Monte. Photo: Courtesy.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía.- Covid contagions persist in the schools of the municipality of Jocotepec, after the second week of the return to classes, according to educational authorities.
It’s «worrying and difficult,” described Mayra Berenice García, director of the elementary school J. Vicente Negrete, located in the delegation of El Molina, where contagions among children have been increasing.
From the 70 percent attendance rate at the beginning of the week of January 17, the figure dropped to 50 percent for the second week, said the director.
Of the 300 children who make up the total student body, at least seven or eight tested positive for the coronavirus. The first grade classroom was the most affected and had to suspend classes for a week.
In addition, other children have presented respiratory symptoms; however, they don’t have access to COVID-19 tests, since these cost between 500 and 600 pesos and not many parents can afford them, so they have been considered as only suspected cases.
Therefore, according to the teacher, the number of infections among students is uncertain and although she expressed that the outlook for the next two weeks after the festivities is alarming, the Ministry of Education of Jalisco (SEJ) has been unyielding in its decision to return to the classroom.
«Unfortunately, to the educational authorities our opinion does not count, but at least we can demand that they do their job,» commented another of the directors, explaining that the sanitation protocol is deficient.
The teachers explained that, when a case is detected, it has to be reported to Health Region IV Ciénega-La Barca, which for federal zone 90 covers the towns of Nextipac, the municipal seat, Los Trojes, El Molino and San Luciano, among other delegations. But they never answer.
And when they do, they explained, the only answer is that classes cannot be suspended and that they have to continue with the same health protocols. The situation is further complicated by the fact that in El Molino the health system is almost null, as well as the testing system.
Since only three percent of the 300 children have some type of Social Security thanks to their parents, this means that only nine children in the entire school have decent access to health care.
Translated by Sandy Britton
There were no injuries in this accident that left a VW Jetta on its side
A red Volkswagen Jetta was left on its side in the bicycle lane after the driver, a 21-year-old man from San Antonio Tlayacapan, lost control of the vehicle during the night of Jan. 21.
The driver was unharmed. The vehicle was damaged and had to be towed away with a tow truck. Excessive speed may have been a factor in the accident.
Translated by Mike Rogers
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