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Chapala candidates line up for first-ever formal debate

Five of the seven registered candidates in the race for the Chapala mayor’s seat have confirmed their participation in the municipality’s first-ever officially 

sanctioned campaign debate. The event, organized under the auspices of the District 17 Electoral Council, will take place on Tuesday, May 26, starting at 6 p.m., in closed quarters on the campus of Chapala’s Escuela Preparatoria Regional.


Pepper spray bandit on the prey

The modus operandi of a break-in reported last week at a home on the west side of Ajijic suggests the reappearance of the infamous pepper-spray bandit who has targeted numerous expat residences over the past several years. 

Chapala weighed down by burgeoning debt

In a story published in the May 8 edition of Guadalajara daily El Informador, Chapala was one of 12 Jalisco municipalities singled out for spending more resources on servicing public debt than on funding public works. 

Anaya pledges power to the people

Citizen’s Movement (MC) candidate Moises Anaya is promising greater empowerment of citizens if he wins the election to be Chapala’s next mayor.

Running at that head of a slate made up almost entirely of men and women who have never held public office, Anaya pledges to establish a citizen council of elected, unsalaried representatives from each of the municipality’s 30 barrios, who will participate in decision-making by advising him on complaints, recommendations and the need for public works projects voiced by their neighbors. The body will also be encouraged to review Chapala’s public finances.

In addition, Anaya states his intention of holding a plebiscite at the half-way point of his administration, vowing to resign the mayor’s post if constituents are not satisfied with his performance.