MND Local: Guadalajara addresses a measles outbreak and other news

So acold successful 2026, Jalisco has suffered the worst measles outbreak successful Mexico, with infections reported successful 39 of the state’s 125 municipalities. This unenviable statistic follows an full twelvemonth successful which Jalisco had the second-highest level of confirmed cases successful Mexico, conscionable down Chihuahua.

Measles infections spur 15 Jalisco superior schools to power to distant classes

The deteriorating concern successful the authorities has led 15 simple schools to partially oregon wholly suspend in-person classes, according to the Jalisco Ministry of Education (SEJ). 

Fifteen simple schools successful Jalisco person switched to distant classes owed to the state’s measles outbreak. (Tec de Monterrey)

The upsurge successful measles cases has been particularly challenging to incorporate arsenic it’s broadly distributed. Schools successful Zapopan, Guadalajara, Tlajomulco, Tlaquepaque and Tonalá each struggled with an upsurge successful cases successful January. Most person present switched to distant learning. 

In response, the Jalisco Ministry of Health (SSJ), Mexico’s Social Security Institute (IMSS), and different wellness providers person intensified the state’s vaccination effort, with a absorption connected the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. The effort involves tiny brigades of healthcare workers going house-to-house, 670 fixed vaccination centers crossed the state, and 40 mobile units targeting engaged nationalist spaces. 

As of mid-January, the run was distributing up to 12,000 doses daily.

Guadalajara airdrome improvements accelerate up of the World Cup

Four and a fractional months earlier the commencement of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the Guadalajara International Airport has galore works underway that, combined with others already completed, volition assistance to creaseless the travel for thousands of planetary fans headed to la perla Tapatía to bask the festivities.

In a caller interrogation with the paper El Mural, Airport Director Cryshtian José Amador Lizardi touted respective cardinal improvements that helium says volition heighten airdrome entree for visitors and residents alike up of the archetypal kickoff astatine Zapopan’s Estadio Akron. These see an summation successful the airdrome parking lot’s capableness from 2,000 to 4,000 spaces and the enlargement of the Guadalajara-Chapala Highway to 3 lanes.

Transit improvements are besides pending

The metropolis is besides moving time and nighttime to adhd Line 5, a autobus rapid-transit nexus connected a dedicated lane of the Carretera Chapala connecting the airdrome to Guadalajara’s wide transit network. This caller line, to beryllium known arsenic “Mi Macro Aeropuerto,” is slated to statesman operations connected May 15, astir 3 weeks earlier kickoff astatine Estadio Akron.

The Guadalajara International Airport is expanding its parking availability up of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. (Shutterstock)

Due to clip constraints, Mi Macro Aeropuerto volition usage a impermanent presumption successful beforehand of the airport’s planetary lounge during the World Cup, with a imperishable presumption planned for the airport’s aboriginal Terminal 2, projected to beryllium completed by 2027.

The airport’s enhancements physique connected respective different improvements completed successful 2024 and 2025, including the summation of a 2nd runway and the remodeling of Terminal 1. 

In parallel, the airdrome has expanded crushed transport services, with the summation of a 3rd taxi institution arsenic good arsenic a caller shuttle work that runs from the airdrome terminal to the historical center, the caller autobus terminal, Expo Guadalajara, and the Minerva roundabout, with departures each hour.

United Airlines to adhd nonstop work to Guadalajara successful June for World Cup

In related news, United Airlines conscionable announced it volition adhd regular nonstop work betwixt Guadalajara International Airport (GDL) and Chicago O’Hare (CHI) successful June, to capitalize connected accrued request tied to the coming 2026 World Cup. 

The way volition beryllium offered June 8–27 connected a Boeing 737-700 aircraft, according to the Aeroroutes website.

New programme teaches metro children astir liable favored ownership

For anyone who’s seen a puppy callously discarded connected the thoroughfare aft Christmas oregon noticed a neglected carnal languishing connected backstage property, you whitethorn person wondered: What tin beryllium done astir specified an atrocious situation? 

New programs successful Guadalajara purpose to trim carnal suffering and cruelty (Andrew S/Unsplash)

It turns retired you’re not alone. 

In Guadalajara, a caller programme aims to trim carnal suffering and alteration the quality mindset that underpins it. Over the past year, 53 “Veterinarian for a Day” and 32 “Mini Farm” workshops have been held astir Guadalajara’s metro region, involving astir 2,000 locals, astir of whom were children. 

The Mini Farm store participants enjoyed a “hands-on” experience, surviving with and caring for animals, including sheep, goats, donkeys, rabbits and roosters. According to specialists, these experiences are invaluable for children who bash not person pets astatine home, arsenic it strengthens values such as empathy and respect for animals portion preventing abuse. 

Ruth Rodríguez, who oversees the programs, enactment the absorption squarely connected fostering much liable favored ownership.

“We effort to permission them with a wide connection astir the work progressive successful having a pet: feeding them, cleaning their space, vaccinating them and taking them to the vet,” Rodríguez said. “We besides beforehand liable adoption and not impulsive purchases, particularly during the vacation season.”

With greater consciousness and sensitivity, the programme aims to trim the complaint of favored abandonments and amended the prime of beingness for section animals.

Charros shot squad claims 2nd consecutive LMP Championship

The Charros of Jalisco person won different championship, defeating the Tomateros of Culiacán. (LMP)

While fractional of the United States endured blizzard-like conditions successful precocious January, the Charros of Jalisco were putting connected a session against the Tomateros of Culiacán astatine their location stadium successful Zapopan. On Sunday, January 26, the squad wrapped up its 2nd consecutive Mexican Pacific League (LMP) Championship, sweeping the best-of-seven bid 4-0, successful beforehand of a capableness crowd. 

The decisive 4th crippled was filled with drama: The Charros took an aboriginal pb connected a two-run azygous from Alejandro Osuna, accompanied by 2 runs from Julián Ornelas. The Tomateros responded with a six-run rally, capped by Orlando Martínez’s three-run homer, seizing the pb 6-3. 

But the Charros would not beryllium denied. They rallied successful the bottommost of the sixth, scoring 3 times, and wrapped up the bid with an 8-6 win.

Next up for the Charros is the Caribbean Series, which began earlier this week successful Guadalajara and continues done Feb. 7.

After discovering that beingness successful Mexico was a batch much amusive than moving successful firm America, Dawn Stoner moved to Guadalajara successful 2022, wherever she lives with her husband, 2 cats and Tapatío rescue dog. Her blog livewellmexico.com helps expats unrecorded their champion beingness southbound of the border.