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The weather is changing. Humidity is creeping up and the northerly winds were not very strong last evening, but the ocean along the coast is still cooler than normal and El Niño is out there dancing across the Pacific.

La Porteña is open but only delivering food and offering take-out at the moment. We've sure missed eating there. Glad to see them reopening.

Folks here are looking forward to getting back to work. Hotels and other lodgings as well as restaurants are making preparations and training their personnel in the new ways of attending to their visitors so that there new rules of hygiene are observed and the risks of contagion are minimalized as much as possible. It will take some getting used to by everyone, but it's still better than hiding indoors and slowly starving to death for locals, and I'm sure a lot of folks are ready to get away from the cities and breathe in some sweet tropical ocean air.

I know I speak for a lot of people when I say we do NOT miss noisy bars or their noisy inconsiderate clients. Now that downtown residents have again enjoyed being able to sleep soundly at night, it would be nice if our visitors could enjoy the same thing as they used to be able to do. Authorities need to relocate the bars outside of the perimeter of the downtown area away from lodgings and residential areas and make them close at a decent hour so we don't have to listen to their scandals all night long!

Agree. Not all are loud, open all night with drunks, but some need to go!

Agree. Not all are loud, open all night with drunks, but some need to go!

It's only a very few that are problematic in the main part of the old downtown section, including the one on the corner of Vicente Guerrero and Nicolás Bravo where I believe at last count they had something like ten shooting deaths, but who's counting, the extremely offensive one across from the zócalo, one or two on Hermenegildo Galeana, a couple on Agustín Ramirez, two by Any's, and the one across from Pizzas Locas. There may be a couple more.

Agree. Not all are loud, open all night with drunks, but some need to go!

It's only a very few that are problematic in the main part of the old downtown section, including the one on the corner of Vicente Guerrero and Nicolás Bravo where I believe at last count they had something like ten shooting deaths, but who's counting, the extremely offensive one across from the zócalo, one or two on Hermenegildo Galeana, a couple on Agustín Ramirez, two by Any's, and the one across from Pizzas Locas. There may be a couple more.

@charlybby; @ZihuaRob.

06 June 2020

Please allow me to elaborate on & identify some of those offenisive bars con "nombre y apellido":
--the one on the corner of Vicente Guerrero and Nicolás Bravo now is
"La Shula", (which previously was known as E.G.O. Bar)
--the extremely offensive one across from the zócalo is aptly named
"La Ingobernable"
--a couple on Agustín Ramirez - one is
"Bar Carlos" that disturbs visitors at the Hotel Avila, as well as spoils the image of what once was a nice walkway years ago.
--two by Any's - one of the two is called
"Overtime"
--I would also add the one called "Madona" (sp?), which I see as the "fly in the ointment", that somewhat ruined what was once a pleasant atmosphere, where the good restaurants such as La Porteña, are concentrated on El Paseo del Pecador between el Zócalo y el muelle.
--And, two more by la escuela primaria "Vicente Guerrero" on la calle Juan N. Álvarez
Los Delfines; Charco de las Ranas, (who courteously provided nightly thumping bass tones to residents en la Colonia de La Madera/calle Adelita)

I'm not in favor of having ANY bars, due to their problematic practices disturbing both residents and at least, some visitors, as well.

That said, they have a right to exist.

IF the corresponding Environmental Norms about hours of operation, decibels, and sound pressure levels, etc., were applied and enforced, that would be a big help.
Unfortunately, the evidence is that the local "Authorities" responsible for doing that, are not willing to do their job related to the problem.

As far as the current closure of bars, it seemed that a worldwide health crisis was the "trick" needed to get that done.
No doubt when the Covid-19 crisis ends, the bars will reopen and continue their disturbances.

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jaui