The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The Chapala government finds itself stuck between a legal rock and a public opinion hard place concerning the situation of the elevated building attached to the Ajijic pier, a structure that has been a repeated subject of controversy since it was erected in 1998.
The Chapala area has a long history of motorists being squeezed for mordidas by unscrupulous traffic police. And drivers who cave to roadside payoffs are equally guilty of engaging in corruption.
The mayors of Jocotepec, Chapala and Tuxcueca are flying high at the prospect of creating a heliport circuit linking their respective municipalities to the medical emergency airlift services provided by the Jalisco Sistema de Atención de Urgencias (SAMU).
Earlier this month a reader asked the Guadalajara Reporter to investigate whether the Chapala municipal government intends to impose a ban on driving golf carts on public roads.
A crew from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) may have delivered the death blow to five mature jacarandas in an apparently overzealous tree trimming exercise carried out along Calle La Vista in upper Chula Vista.
The sinister wave of criminal violence that has rocked Lake Chapala’s south shore over the past several months hit an ominous crest with the June 12 assassination of José Antonio Languren Martìnez, commissar of the Tizapán el Alto police department.
Jocotepec has been selected as the host venue for a three-day series of national championship cycling races organized under the auspices of the Federación Nacional de Ciclismo (FMC).
