Following up on yesterday’s top story, the healthcare workers union at the main public hospital in Juchitán, Oaxaca, reports that all 5 of the hospital’s elevators have now been repaired, and union reps told El Universal that state officials have also promised to purchase 230 thousand pesos (that’s a little less than 13 thousand U.S. dollars) worth of urgently needed medical supplies with the instruction that those supplies last through December. However, the striking workers plan to keep the pressure on until those supplies are delivered, and say that if they haven’t received the supplies by Monday, they will expand the strike to other parts of the region. Meanwhile, only the hospital’s emergency room remains open during the strike.
The Puerto Escondido airport will be getting an upgrade — the federal secretariat of infrastructure, communications and transportation says P.E.’s airport will get a new 18,000-square-meter terminal (that’s nearly 200 thousand square feet, or two-thirds the size of the average IKEA store) which will be designed to handle up to 3 million passengers each year. The project is expected to cost 2.7 billion pesos, about 149 million US dollars. No word yet on the timeline for the renovations, how they will affect passengers in the meantime, or environmental impact.
Are you familiar with Danzón? It’s a graceful and stylized form of ballroom dance from Cuba that’s also very popular here in Mexico. Whether you’re a master of Danzón or just interested in finding out more, we’d suggest checking out Danzón at the Zócalo at 6:30 this evening in the heart of Oaxaca’s Centro Histórico. There’s no charge to participate.
If you’d like to learn a slightly more modern, sexier dance style, you might consider Bachata lessons by donation at 8:30 tonight at Zapotec Mixology Bar on Tinoco y Palacios between Quetzalcoatl and Jesús Carranza in the Centro Histórico. Want something even spicer, dancewise? Salsa lessons, also by donation, start at 9:30pm at the same place.
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In weather, mostly sunny skies in the capital city this morning with some cloudiness this afternoon, highs of around 24ºC (75ºF) and chilly lows of about 9.5ºC (49ºF) with no rain in today’s forecast. On the coast, expect a high temperature of 30.5ºC (87ºF) in Puerto Escondido with partly cloudy skies and a chance of showers in the late afternoon and evening. In Huatulco just one or two degrees warmer with a 50% chance of rain showers peaking at about 4pm.
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