Traveling to Guadalajara? Here’s what it’s like in western Mexico right now

More than 48 hours aft the Jalisco authorities activated a stay-at-home alert successful effect to the convulsive events resulting from the sidesplitting of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oceguera Cervantes, authorities Governor Pablo Lemus announced Tuesday that the measurement had been lifted. 

“Due to the advancement successful the regularization of authorities activities, this greeting we decided to extremity the reddish alert,” Lemus said successful a video published Tuesday.

Después de levantar el Código Rojo esta mañana, las tiendas de autoservicio, sucursales bancarias, el Mercado de Abastos y los servicios municipales y estatales, están operando con normalidad.

El servicio del transporte público se ha reactivado por completo en el AMG y Puerto… pic.twitter.com/NLCoI4zjTY

— Pablo Lemus Navarro (@PabloLemusN) February 25, 2026

In it, helium explained that each economic, societal and spiritual activities successful the authorities had resumed, arsenic good arsenic each municipal services. He besides said that supermarkets, convenience stores, wholesale markets, restaurants and banks had reopened without incident, and that schools would resume activities connected Wednesday. 

Mexico News Daily spoke to residents successful Guadalajara to recognize what it’s similar successful the Jalisco superior close now.

“Schools were inactive closed today, but I took my kids to their tennis acquisition successful the day and the metropolis seems normal,” Cecilia, 37, a nonmigratory of Zapopan successful the metropolitan country of Guadalajara and parent of 3 children, said connected Tuesday, Feb. 24. “My kids volition instrumentality to schoolhouse connected Wednesday,” she added.  

Cecilia ventured retired of her location Tuesday day for the archetypal clip since the unit began Sunday morning. Cecilia’s household was 1 of the families affected by arson attacks, arsenic a convenience store they ain was burned down by criminals.

Meanwhile, María Fernanda, 36, a nonmigratory of Guadalajara and parent of 1 child, said that her household had “somewhat resumed mean life” connected Tuesday, adding that she took her kid to the playground of a backstage nine of which she’s a member, arsenic they had been indoors since Sunday.  

“However, I’m skeptical and I’m taking tons of precautions. I’m not definite I’ll nonstop my kid to schoolhouse yet,” she said with concern.

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Gabriela, 63, who owns a concern successful Zapopan, said that each her employees showed up for enactment by nationalist proscription without incidents oregon delays, and that the workday went smoothly. Among her activities, she went to the slope to retreat wealth and to an Oxxo. She didn’t brushwood immoderate shops that were closed.  

In contrast, Visitación, a antheral successful his 50s who collects bare cardboard boxes from Farmacias Guadalajara to resell, said that during his daywork successful Zapopan, helium noticed that respective pharmacies were inactive closed. 

Regarding enactment astatine the Guadalajara International Airport, Rubén, 50, who runs a backstage proscription service, said helium drove clients to the airdrome connected Tuesday without immoderate incidents, and that enactment astatine the airdrome was moving arsenic usual. Still, helium said that portion things look mean successful Guadalajara, helium wouldn’t suggest travelers thrust astatine night.

“I don’t urge going retired astatine nighttime oregon successful the aboriginal morning,” helium said, adding that helium refused to instrumentality travelers to the airdrome earlier 7 a.m.

This sentiment is shared among residents. Fernanda, 32, said that she and her friends had planned a girls’ nighttime retired connected Wednesday, but they decided to cancel their plans due to the fact that they don’t consciousness harmless leaving their homes aft dark.  

“We person nary volition of going retired astatine night. At slightest not yet,” she said. 

As for roadworthy conditions, travelers driving from Tapalpa, Puerto Vallarta, Ameca and Tepic to and from Guadalajara reported “smooth travel” connected Wednesday. Although they encountered immoderate burned trucks on the way, which were inactive fuming from Sunday’s attacks, they said they arrived safely to their destinations without immoderate incidents.

Lemus said helium asked President Claudia Sheinbaum to region remnants of burned trucks from the roads, peculiarly from national highways 80, 90 and 200. According to Lemus, Sheinbaum showed afloat disposition to help. 

“Within a maximum of 36 hours, we volition beryllium removing each damaged vehicles from roads and metropolitan areas,” Lemus said.

Traveling to different states? Good news: the remainder of Mexico is looking good

Travelers to different fashionable Mexican destinations should beryllium alert that authorities person taken preventive information measures successful effect to the violence.

In Mexico City, Mayor Clara Brugada convened a “permanent” Security Cabinet session and confirmed the superior remained astatine peace, with each nationalist transportation, schools and services operating normally. Mexico City International Airport is besides harmless and is presently guarded by an further 5,000 agents, comprising unit from the Naval Airport Protection Unit, the Federal Protection Service, the Mexico City Police Department and backstage information corporations.

Esta semana, más de 600 mil visitantes continúan disfrutando en familia y amig@s las maravillas del #CaribeMexicano. 🏝️ pic.twitter.com/ZtQh6EPPFW

— Mara Lezama (@MaraLezama) February 24, 2026

In Quintana Roo, Governor Mara Lezama deployed a associated information operation of much than 10,000 federal, authorities and municipal forces, confirming that the state’s planetary airports are operating usually with nary security-related cancellations. 

Meanwhile, successful Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, municipal authorities launched a preventive inter-institutional security inspection of large buying centers successful Cabo San Lucas, reviewing structural, electrical and state information compliance, with officials emphasizing their extremity of keeping the destination harmless for some employees and visitors.

Travelers are advised to travel authoritative authorities channels for updates and debar sharing unverified information.

Mexico News Daily