Thanks to good reflexes and quick thinking, the driver of a bottled water delivery truck managed to avoid a potentially tragic collision after the vehicle’s brakes failed near the busy intersection of the Libramiento and the Chapala-Ajijic highway.  

Two new garbage trucks recently acquired by the Chapala municipal government may bring about minor improvements in the current irregularity of pick-up services, but there are no signs that big changes in solid waste management will come any time soon.

Efren González let out a nervous chuckle as he slapped tile plaster on the back side of the first of several hundred clay plaques that will make up his Mural de los Muertos, a massive sculpture he is creating as permanent tribute to Ajijic’s dearly departed.

A new highlight of Chapala’s September Independence Day parade was the police contingent that led this year’s 90-minute cavalcade along Avenida Madero.

The Auditorio de la Ribera would be celebrating major milestones this weekend were it not for the vagaries of government-managed construction projects.  

Chapala’s faithful will honor patron saint San Francisco de Asis with nine straight days of festivities running from Monday, September 26 through Tuesday, October 4.