Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Chilpancingo, Mexico

Fidel Chapa Molina replaces tiles on the front of a clothing and shoe store in downtown Chilpancingo, a city in Guerrero, Mexico. For Chapa, isolating to avoid the coronavirus isn’t an option: He has to work daily to maintain his household. “If the coronavirus doesn’t kill us, hunger will,” Chapa says. “The government just says ‘stay home,’ but they don’t understand our needs.”

Photo by Avigaí Silva

Chilpancingo, Mexico

José Ernesto Ávalos Pardo, commander of the 35th military zone, serves Lucía Alcocer, left, at a soup kitchen in Chilpancingo, a city in Mexico’s Guerrero state. The state government set up the soup kitchen to feed those in need during the coronavirus crisis.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

Erick Martínez Pérez, 40, and other workers from the health department’s vector control program disinfect the park outside Iglesia de San Francisco, a church in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico. As a preventive measure during the coronavirus health crisis, the San Cristóbal de las Casas City Council and health department coordinated an urban sanitation campaign in the city’s public spaces.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Tecámac, Mexico

Allan Christian Covarrubias, a parish priest at Natividad de la Virgen María, a church in Tecámac, Mexico, gives Sunday Mass via livestream. Religious events have been canceled in Mexico since March 30, along with other public gatherings, due to the coronavirus. Religious events were allowed to resume on May 31, but due to limitations on the number of people able to gather, the online services have continued at Natividad de la Virgen María.

Photo by Aline Suárez del Real

San Pedro Atzompa, Mexico

Irene Colín, back left, and Saúl Rojas help their children, Héctor Rojas, left, 6, and Sophie Rojas, 8, with their school assignments and music education at their home in San Pedro Atzompa, a town in the State of Mexico. Schools in Mexico have been closed since March 20 due to the spread of the coronavirus. While confinement is not mandatory throughout the country, many families have respected and embraced confinement, keeping themselves safe at home.

Photo by Aline Suárez del Real

Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

Daniel Pérez packs bags of food provisions in Puebla, Mexico. The Fresh Food Basket includes 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of Manila mangoes, cucumbers, seedless limes, onion and a pineapple for 100 Mexican pesos ($4.47). The collective Enfermos Renales y Trasplantados Puebla organized their network of volunteers to sell fruits and vegetables from producers in Veracruz at markdowns, so low-budget households can access them.

Photo by Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Demonstrators march against police abuse in downtown Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco, Mexico. The protest concluded in front of the government palace. The Jalisco government mobilized the police force to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but many came to protest the police’s excessive force, especially following the death of Giovanni López, who died in police custody after being arrested for not wearing a face mask.

Photo by Maya Piedra

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.

Photo by Aline Suárez del Real

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.

Photo by Aline Suárez del Real

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.”

Photo by Mar García

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.

Photo by Carolina López

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.

Photo by Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez

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.

Photo by Carolina López

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.

Photo by Maya Piedra

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.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

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.

Photo by Maya Piedra

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.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

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.

Photo by Lilette A. Contreras

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.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

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.

Photo by Patricia Zavala Gutiérrez

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.

Photo by Avigaí Silva

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.

Photo by Lilette A. Contreras

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.

Photo by Adriana Alcázar González

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.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

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