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Tecámac, Mexico
Alma Soto stands in front of Tacos Lupe in Tecámac, in the State of Mexico. To prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the taqueria has stopped allowing dine-in customers, made customers apply antibacterial gel at the entrance and required face masks. The shop also placed markers to indicate where people should wait for their orders, so they won’t stand too close together.
Tecámac, Mexico
Alicia Covarrubias, 73, has owned her market in Tecámac, a municipality in Mexico, for 40 years. She has never experienced anything like the coronavirus situation. She decided not to close her store because it is how she earns her living and opted instead to prevent infection by keeping people at a safe distance. She is worried because a neighbor recently died from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. “It’s a difficult situation, but we have to take care of ourselves and keep going,” Covarrubias says.
Mexico City, Mexico
Fernando Urzúa distributes water bills in downtown Mexico City, Mexico. Urzúa usually investigates reports of leaks but has been filling in for a colleague at high risk for contracting the coronavirus. “It’s uncomfortable but safe,” Urzúa says of the face mask and goggles his employer gave him to protect himself. “It does scare me to go out, but when I get home, I take off all my clothes, I put it in a plastic bag and I bathe. We have to follow the hygiene measures that the government of Mexico City has implemented.”
Mexico City, Mexico
Emilio Domínguez sells face masks at an intersection in San Jerónimo, a neighborhood in Mexico City. When the coronavirus started spreading in Mexico in late February, there was a shortage of masks for sale. But now there are vendors throughout the city, many of whom have taken up selling masks because they lost their jobs.
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
The municipal government of Puebla has come up with various ways to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in this city in central Mexico. Since April 20, members of the Department of Municipal Citizen Security have stopped vehicular circulation in the first block of the city. They mark the streets, inform the citizenry of the procedures, and restrict authorized access to local transit, water trucks, trash trucks and emergency vehicles.
Mexico City, Mexico
Marcelo Rodríguez works at MEGA, a supermarket in San Jerónimo, a neighborhood in Mexico City. The supermarket has stayed open during the spread of the coronavirus in Mexico, but while the shelves are full of products, the aisles are empty of customers.
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Guadalupe Pérez works at a market in Guadalajara, a city in southern Mexico’s Jalisco state. To minimize exposure to the coronavirus, Pérez wears a mask and personal protective equipment.
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
Fredi Peña Sánchez offers antibacterial gel to public-transportation drivers on Benito Juárez Avenue in Chilpancingo, a city in southern Mexico. Peña Sánchez, who works at a clothing store, says he and his co-workers have been distributing surgical masks and antibacterial gel since the beginning of April to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Stefania Hernández checks her phone and waits for customers at her family’s grocery store in Santa Teresita, a neighborhood in Guadalajara, Mexico. The family wears masks and offers hand sanitizer to customers, but even with the precautions, Hernandez says, their sales have gone down 50% since the coronavirus arrived in Mexico.
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
Employees from the Guerrero state government’s sanitation department spray sanitizer at a public square in Chilpancingo, a city in southern Mexico’s Guerrero state. To battle the spread of the coronavirus, the state government began a campaign in April to sanitize heavily trafficked spaces like hospitals, public buildings and plazas.
Chihuahua, Mexico
Ismael Cruz Bustillos holds a photograph from a family album at his home in Chihuahua, Mexico. The photo shows him getting painted for the Pascol dance, a traditional dance in the Rarámuri culture, often associated with Easter. Cruz Bustillos has danced at the Norogachi community’s Holy Week festival for the past six years. This is the first year it did not take place, he says.
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
In Chilpancingo, Mexico, workers from the Guerrero state government’s urban image and sanitization team clean and disinfect the Francisco Granados Maldonado park to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The team cleans heavily trafficked public spaces like hospitals, public buildings, parks, markets and ATMs.
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
In April, masks appeared on the statues of children in Fuente de los Muñecos, a fountain in Puebla, Mexico. The statues are the source of a local legend, and some neighbors claim to have seen and heard the children come alive at night. Residents hope the community follows the statues’ example and wears a mask in public to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico
A sanitation drone helps prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the Hospital de la Madre y el Niño Guerrerense in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. Abraham Jiménez Montiel, the municipal health minister, said these same sanitation procedures were performed in other hospitals as well.
Chihuahua, Mexico
Hand-washing stations started popping up in downtown Chihuahua in early March. The stations, distributed by the municipal government of the capital city, come with step-by-step instructions on hand-washing practices to kill germs and prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Guillermo Hernández Pinto, a parish priest in San Cristóbal de las Casas, blesses a palm frond held by Marco Antonio Martínez on Palm Sunday. Ordinarily, the Chiapas city would hold a traditional Mass and procession of worshippers through the streets for the religious holiday, but the tradition was changed this year due to concerns over the spread of the coronavirus. Instead of marching, the parish priest rode to different neighborhoods in a pickup truck, blessing water, pictures and palm fronds along the way.
Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico
People celebrating at a festival in honor of patron saint Lorenzo Mártir carry firework bulls on their shoulders in Zinacantán, Mexico. The bulls are made of straw and covered with paper and other materials with fireworks stuffed inside. They are lit after being blessed in church, to the excitement of all the spectators who gather to watch.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
In a large garden full of trees at the Hotel Bosques del Sol in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, local producers gather every Sunday to sell everything from natural cosmetics, to local produce, to artisanal textiles. Known locally as the Firefly Street Market, it began as a weekly street market for local producers with the goal of developing community and aiding the local economy.
Mexico City, Mexico
Luis Alberto Aguilar Hernández pastes letters on the flower façade he made with his artisan colleagues at the Parish of San Matías in the borough of Iztacalco in eastern Mexico City. It’s a tradition to place such façades at the entrance of churches and parishes during religious celebrations in the area. “I have been doing this since I was a kid. I like it a lot seeing it when we put it up. I see all of my work captured in it,” Hernández says.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Anita Ierace presents a light show that she created on an analog projector at a bookstore in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. The aim of the show, which combines sounds and music with light and color, is to “open the doors to the consciousness of sound and color where the combination of music and light is the result of a synthesized journey that transcends perception.”
Mexico City, Mexico
Alejandro Piña plays the main organ during a mass in the Chapel of the Assumption in Mexico City. Piña learned to play music for mass when he was 15 years old, and has been doing it for more than 50 years.
Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
The Parish of San Juan Bautista, a Catholic temple located in Coyoacán, a municipality south of Mexico City, provides a silent and peaceful sanctuary in the midst of this loud and busy neighborhood. Constructed in the 16th century and designed in the Baroque style, it is open every day to both locals wishing to pray and to tourists.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Mireya Blanco Martínez performs her solo accordion project, called Mirelle Acordeónika, for the first time in a secondhand bookstore in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. The performance includes Romanian, Russian, French and Argentine pieces, as well as melodies that she learned for the pleasure of playing them. She has played the accordion for just five years.
San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico
Lucy Pérez Gómez (left) and Tex Andrés López Díaz perform at a celebration of the traditional music of Chamula, a municipality the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. They are part of the Yajvalel Vinajel ensemble, which translates to “Lord of the Sky” in the Tsotsil language. The ensemble has been performing and raising awareness of this musical tradition for nearly 11 years.