Around 500 Chapala residents led a peace march on Sunday night in response to the dumping of 18 disfigured bodies in Ixtlahuacan last Wednesday.

City government work crews this week completed the bulk of the makeover of the pedestrian walkways along Chapala’s central avenue, leaving everything ready for the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Telmex and local businesses to kick in on the last stage of the project.

Friends of Ixtlahuacan restaurant owner Francisco Ricardo Vargas Garcia, who was shot and killed on April 30, want the community to know that the family has re-opened their popular Cinco Potrillos restaurant.

Testing of electronic voting booths in Chapala, Jocotepec and Tequila revealed serious flaws ahead of the July 1 elections.

Once again, animal activist Geoffrey Kaye, founder of the Animal Shelter and its attached dog adoption center in Riberas del Pilar, is faced with the possibility of closure.

Residents of the Chapala area are reeling under a pall of shock and dismay after learning that a number of its native sons were among the bodies of 18 persons found early Wednesday, May 9 in the boundaries of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.