Chapala marked World AIDS Day on Saturday, December 1 with the town’s second annual Gay Pride Parade and a light-hearted drag queen beauty contest sponsored by the local AIDS prevention council Comusida.

People from 13 indigenous pueblos in the state of Michoacan are coming to Ajijic to share their unique cultural heritage.

It’s the biggest event in the birding year – the traditional Christmas Bird Count to be held on the Lake Chapala shoreline on Friday, December 14.

Robert Alexander, a retired American scientist turned television travelogue host, blew into the lakeshore area last week to tape footage for a segment of his popular Gringo en Mexico series.

Chapala’s Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo was the setting for a heart-warming celebration for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, held Monday, December 3 under the auspices of Guadalajara’s distinguished Centro Psicoeducativo Freire.

A group of concerned Lake Chapala area citizens held a press conference in Guadalajara last week to draw the metro area media’s attention to the insecurity and lack of justice plighting the Lakeside community.