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United States Consulate General

Guadalajara, Mexico

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO

AS MANY AMERICAN CITIZENS AS POSSIBLE

Emergency Message: Civil Unrest Near Mercado

San Juan de Dios

October 31, 2014

Please be advised that currently there is civil unrest in the area of Mercado San Juan de Dios. At this moment the police do not have the situation under control. Due to burned out vehicles and violence there are several street closings in the area. A main road Calzada Independencia is closed north and south bound from Revolucion to Estaban Alatorre. Please avoid this area until the law enforcement has restored civil order.

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According to a usually reliable source, this is the result of police harassing street vendors in the area and the vendors having enough. According to this source, police make raids of vendors selling "pirated" goods. The merchandise is confiscated. The next day, the vendors go to the police station and are allowed to buy back their merchandise (at a discounted rate, of course) and return to business. The vendors are tired of it.

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Does anyone know if this is due to the murder in Guanajuato of the young engineering student from Guadalajara? Sitting up here in Canada I have been looking for news on the Internet - English and Spanish - and can't find anything...not unusual. Very frustrating.

Here are links to some of the more credible Mexican news sources.

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html

(There's a search bar under the logo. "Estados" will get you to the Mexican news section and "English" will get you a condensed version of the news in English.)

http://www.informador.com.mx/jalisco/

(This one is good for Jalisco news. Today's lead story is about the disturbance at the mercado in Guadalajara.)

http://www.sinembargo.mx/

(This is a digital news service.)

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My son and I were there yesterday morning,I'm glad we left when we did.

They usually do these frequent pirateria raids/confiscations at San Juan de Dios in the middle of night,who knows why they changed their schedule this time.

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