Based on what they learned on the campaign trail, two of Chapala’s losing mayoral candidates have set up separate non-profit organizations aimed at addressing critical public issues through community actions that benefit the underprivileged and the local environment.

Sign up for the second annual five-kilometer Catrina Run to help support therapy treatments for breast cancer survivors.

Keen to promote better management of solid wastes generated in the municipality, Chapala’s new Ecology Director José Jaime Ibañez held a public meeting Tuesday, October 9, to introduce plans for implementing a trash separation pilot project in Ajijic.

It may be October (and not April), but Patrick Oden is still busy preparing and sending off forms to the IRS for U.S. clients at his Chapala office. In a phone conversation, Oden said he had just filed a return for a client with a hefty income and tax obligations.

Taking action on the heels of recent rumors that investors have set their eyes on Ajijic’s neighboring mountain range to plant new residential developments, concerned residents have mobilized to form Vigilantes de la Ribera, a non-political civil association designed to act as a guardian of lakeside’s natural resources.

Rumors that the coveted mountain landscape overlooking Ajijic is under immediate threat of devastation by developers sparked an uproar among village inhabitants, despite public denials from outgoing city hall officials.