Due to risk of Covid-19 transmission, lakeside area Roman Catholic churches have scaled back their traditional Christmas season activities.

Following a December 21 alert of suspicious activity spotted in the vicinity of the Chapala Media Park, municipal police captured five male suspects apparently involved in stealing computer equipment from the vacant tech business complex.

Every year at Christmas time expat motorists at lakeside share accounts of victimization by money-hungry traffic cops.

Following up on the December 13 protest march in defense of the mountain range overlooking Lake Chapala’s north shore, 20 young activists took it a step further four days later by staging a citizen closure of the Punto Niza residential complex currently under construction on the hillside of Chapala’s Barrio de Lourdes.

When Chapala’s land registry department (Catastro) begins collecting 2021 property taxes on January 1, it will be operating with innovative payment methods designed for the convenience of the taxpayers as the Covid-19 pandemic continues.

As Jocotepec Mayor José Miguel Gómez López has taken a leave of absence to recuperate from pneumonia caused by a relapse of Covid-19,