The lakeside branch of Guadalajara’s National Chamber of Commerce (Canaco) is under new leadership following the June 28 swearing-in of Yolanda Martinez as its new head officer.

Bucking a state and nationwide trend, National Action Party (PAN) candidate Joaquin Huerta Barrios won the sympathies of the Chapala electorate to triumph in the municipality’s July 1 mayoral race.

Fortunately no one was injured when this truck skidded off the Libramiento at the intersection of the Carretera Tuesday morning.

Dr. Walter Rast, director of Texas State University’s International Institute for Watershed Studies, was in Ajijic last week to participate as a keynote speaker and expert adviser at a symposium on advancing integral management of the Lerma-Chapala watershed.

A heavy downpour hitting the south shore of Lake Chapala early Monday, June 26 provoked a flash flood that swept through Villa Emiliano Zapata, a rural village located between the municipal seat of Tizapan el Alto and the Michoacan border.

Chapala area traffic commandant Hector Magaña Rios has launched a “No Coyotes” campaign after learning that some foreign residents were paying third-party facilitators more than double the cost of fixed fees to obtain Jalisco driver’s permits.