Avenida Madero, Chapala’s central north-south artery, will be closed to vehicular traffic early Sunday, June 10, to make way for the Carrera Colores y Valores por la Familia, a family-oriented foot race series organized by the Octavio Paz University Campus.

In addition to sampling a wide selection of fine wines and gourmet taste treats, visitors at next weekend’s Vid Forum wine festival will have an opportunity to view and test drive several models of Tesla electric cars now available on the Mexican market.

With just two and a half weeks to go before the 2018 campaign season closes, there are no indications that Chapala’s seven mayoral candidates will face off in a live public debate.

Projecting confidence of victory in the up-coming national election, presidential front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador concluded a 40-minute speech to a thundering crowd of supporters gathered May 19 at the Jocotepec Malecón with a pledge to return to the lakeshore town before assuming office next December to lay out his development and investment plan for the region.

A dispute among residents of the Vista Alegre residential complex culminated early Tuesday, May 29 with the fatal shooting of a Mexican man inflicted by the president of the condominium homeowners association (HOA), a U.S. citizen holding permanent resident status in this country.

Incumbent Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado has publicly cast doubt on Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) candidate Moises Anaya’s report of a death threat against him, and that local Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) activists were culpable in its orchestration, as well as an alleged armed assault on MC supporters.