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Reading etc for travelling folks

There have been questions about available books and games for the travelling snowbirds.  There is an exchange at Barloventos and the library in Chicxulub.

A local expat Amy 999 362 0943 has books and games in exchange for dog food.

Coconitos
Local food like breaded shrimp and poc chuc can be purchased at Fito’s calle 25 x 68 y 70 from Wed to Sun Delivery is available.

After the fire at the Peón Contreras theater, what’s next?

November 6, 2022

Updated 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2:

Walk by the Teatro José Peón Contreras and you’d never know there was a fire the day before.

Except for some caution tape at a side employee entrance, and a few police cars idling nearby, the historic theater site appeared normal. From the outside, the only fire damage to be seen was on the ceiling of a south-facing balcony.

Soot could be seen on the roof, with the help of a drone camera. Lights were on at the ground-floor restaurant, which was open for business.

Officials have not commented on the condition of the performance area, and if scheduled productions are viable.

While the fire appeared contained to the top floor, water and smoke could have damaged lower levels of the building.

5 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2:

The state and federal governments are pledging to help restore Mérida’s famed Teatro José Peón Contreras after a fire damaged much of the building late Tuesday afternoon.

The fire was attributed to a short circuit and appeared confined to the upper floor. 

The building — a major hub of Mérida culture — was closed when the fire started, and employees were evacuated, with no injuries reported. 

No flames were visible from the streets, which were blocked off by emergency personnel. Dense clouds of black smoke could be seen for miles, rising from the roof. Damage to the auditorium, dressing rooms, and stage was not reported.

While streets were blocked off, firefighters used a ladder truck with a pump capable of delivering more than 4,700 liters of water per minute to douse the flames. 

The blaze possibly endangers the second half of the Yucatán Symphony Orchestra season. A “Scottish Fantasy” performance was planned for Nov. 11. The theater has been the official home of the orchestra since 2004, where it stages philharmonic, operatic, and ballet performances.

Today, officials are expected to inspect the entire building to see what of the year’s cultural calendar can be salvaged.

The fire has made headlines internationally. Shortly after the fire was reported, the heads of the state and national ministries of culture pledged their support to restore the theater. 

“We regret the fire at the Teatro Peón Contreras, the only property in the Mexican southeast declared an Artistic Monument since 1977, a jewel of architecture and cultural life in Mexico,” said Alejandra Frausto, head of Mexico’s Ministery of Culture. 

The theater, modeled after an Italian opera house, is one of Yucatán’s most treasured historic landmarks. Inaugurated in 1908, the Peón Contreras theater was reopened in the 1980s after massive renovations.

In addition to performances, the Peón Contreras is a part of social history: In 1916, the country’s first Feminist Congress was held at the theater. 

Tuesday’s fire is not the theater’s first. In 2009, it cost 3 million pesos to repair the stage after a fire wrecked floorboards, curtains, technical equipment, and scenery for the opera “The Barber of Seville.”

The theater, on Calle 60 and 57 in the historic center, is named for the Yucatecan playwright and writer, José Peón Contreras (1843-1907).

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FGR and National Guard carry out police operation against “Huachicol” in Progreso
By Yucatan Times on October 28, 2022
An unusual event occurred this Thursday at sunset on “Victor Cervera Pacheco” Avenue, as several authorities appeared, among them the Criminal Investigation Agency of the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR), with the support of elements of the National Guard, with the objective of a search of a land where oil refining was allegedly taking place.

It was one of the many plots of land located in this part of the city, where the investigations were carried out, with tape being placed and more and more uniformed officers arriving, which caused more than one resident to go outside their property to witness this.

As it happens in this type of eventualities, secrecy was part of what was exercised by the elements in security matters that attended the operation, however, it was reported that more than 15 vehicles including trucks, trailers, and pipes were secured for the alleged handling of illegally extracted fuel.

It was reported that in this area, there are still several “planchas” where trailers and large trucks are usually parked, although it was the discovery of an abandoned pipe with fuel that triggered the suspicions that led to this operation.

It was noteworthy that the event took place on 39th Street between 62nd and 64th, just a few meters from educational institutions such as the 14th Multiple Attention Center and the Progreso High School, where there were still young people who witnessed the operation from their distant classrooms.

Previously, specifically during the first four months of last year, the authorities had been present in this way, but on the federal highway from Merida to Progreso, where it was constantly reported that there were illegal fuel connections that gave rise to huachicol by residents near Progreso’s police stations.

Dengue on the rise in the Yucatan: one case every 4 hours last week Yucatan Times October 28, 2022

The accelerated increase of dengue fever in the entity caused that during the past week a case was confirmed every four hours, the highest figure from the end of 2019 to date, revealed the Federal Health Secretariat.

Likewise, the deadly disease is already affecting 24 municipalities, as the first cases were detected in Celestún, Dzilam de Bravo and Progreso.

Fortunately, so far, there have been no deaths in the Yucatan Peninsula as a result of this lethal pathology.
The lethal disease is absent in six states of the country, and affects the entire south-southeast of the country, and in the case of the Yucatan Peninsula, there are 533 confirmed cases so far.

Up to the 42nd epidemiological week, there were 8,458 accumulated confirmed cases in the country, with an increase of 124.47 percent with respect to the same period in 2021, when the total was 3,768.

In the Yucatan Peninsula, such ailment transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes was confirmed in 533 people, of which, 253 are from Quintana Roo; 222 are from Yucatan, and the remaining 58 are from Campeche.

Of the total number of cases in Yucatan, 24 are distributed in 24 municipalities, such as Abalá, Buctzotz, Chemax, Chichimilá, Cuncunul, Espita, Izamal, Kanasín, Maxcanú, Mérida, Peto, Teabo, Tekax, Temozón, Timucuy Tinum, Tizimín, Tzucacab, Ucú, Umán and Valladolid, but as of this week, Celestún, Dzilam de Bravo and Progreso are included.

According to the “Panorama Epidemiológico de Dengue”, the greatest problem is registered in Sonora, with 1,365 cases, 16.14 percent; the State of Mexico, with 1,276 infected, 15.09 percent; Veracruz, with 1,188 infected, 14.05 percent; and Chiapas, with 765 positives, 9.04 percent.
Quintana Roo is in eleventh place in the national table, Yucatan is in 12th place, while Campeche is in 16th place.

So far, 14 deaths have been confirmed, distributed in seven states, and only in Oaxaca there are seven deaths, while in Morelos there are two, and the rest are in the State of Mexico, Guerrero, Sinaloa, Tabasco and Veracruz.

Thought this was past us!!

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