All aboard! Well, not quite yet. But after a year-long wait, an old caboose gifted to Chapala by the Ferrocarriles Mexicanos (Ferromex) Foundation was finally delivered Friday, September 23 for installation outside the Centro Cultural González Gallo, the town’s former train station. 

The daily lives of media reporters who cover local news in the lakeshore region often revolve around pounding the pavement, tedious waiting for formal events and interviews with government officials, dropping personal activities to cover breaking stories and rushing to meet deadlines.

A health crisis can strike anyone at any time.  In many emergency cases, medical treatment may involve a need for blood.

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.