The annual nine days of festivities honoring Chapala’s patron saint, San Francisco de Asís, have been pared down this year in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

United States Ambassador to Mexico Christopher Landau paid an informal diplomatic call in the Chapala area on Saturday, September 26, accompanied by his wife Caroline and Guadalajara’s Consul General Eliza F. Al-Laham.

Mayor Moisés Anaya and wife Mariana Villanueva welcomed a new member of the family to the world early Saturday, September 26.

Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya has not yet made up his mind on whether to run for reelection or seek other political fortunes after his term of office ends September 30, 2021.

Homeowners residing on the western outskirts of Ajijic, and frustrated by the constant nuisance of barking dogs housed at the Chapala’s government’s canine refuge, are lashing out at Mayor Moisés Anaya and staff at the Ecology Department for their lack of cooperation in finding an alternate location where neighbors would be out of earshot.

Inspectors from Chapala’s Regulations Department, backed up by police officers, swooped in Saturday, September 19 to shut down a wedding party that was underway at an outdoor event center on the western outskirts of Ajijic.