Wednesday, June 24 – the date Mexico commemorates International Paramedics Day – turned out to be a red letter day for Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) when volunteers with the FoodBank Lakeside arrived at midday to deliver despensas (food packages) to the clinic’s 47 staffers.

The Chapala government announced the re-opening of its malecón zones, plazas and community parks, effective Thursday, June 25.

Adherents of the Frena movement, aimed at forcing the resignation President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will continue bi-weekly protest caravans at lakeside this weekend.

A cyclist identified as a 72-year-old inhabitant of San Antonio Tlaycapan died instantly when he was run down by a taxi driver while attempting to cross the highway around 7:30 a.m. on Friday, June 19.

With Jocotepec now ranking as Jalisco’s number one dengue fever hot spot, the state’s Department of Health (SSJ) is targeting Lake Chapala shoreline municipalities for an all-out public awareness and disease prevention campaign.

Chapala’s Hotel Montecarlo is one of two University of Guadalajara (UdeG) properties that have been tapped for adaptation as temporary living quarters for Covid-19 patients requiring isolation without hospital treatment.