Like many local charitable organizations, the Operación Amor spay and neuter program has been obliged to adapt to the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to carry on their good work.

Chapala is not the only place where city dwellers and other Jalisco inhabitants are looking to go for relief from Covid-19 anxieties.

With the extended shutdown of Chapala boardwalks lifted as of June 27, throngs of weekend visitors returned to the area’s popular tourist zones.

Wednesday, June 24 – the date Mexico commemorates International Paramedics Day – turned out to be a red letter day for Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) when volunteers with the FoodBank Lakeside arrived at midday to deliver despensas (food packages) to the clinic’s 47 staffers.

The Chapala government announced the re-opening of its malecón zones, plazas and community parks, effective Thursday, June 25.

Adherents of the Frena movement, aimed at forcing the resignation President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will continue bi-weekly protest caravans at lakeside this weekend.