As the main speaker at a public forum held in Chapala on Friday, December 13, former Jalisco Governor Francisco Ramírez Acuña called on Mexican citizens to wake up and get more involved in national politics.

A six-year-old girl endured multiple injuries when she was jumped by a pack of dogs on Monday, December 9, in the town of Atotonilquillo.

Chapala City Hall will shut down for regular business from December 18 through January 6 for the Christmas vacation period.

The Chapala man accused of killing a neighbor’s vicious dog on November 21 is being charged the maximum fine defined under the municipality’s income law.

Juana Bravo Lázaro, one of the indigenous cooks who were instrumental in gaining international distinction for Mexico’s traditional cuisine, will be on hand as a star representative of her home state of Michoacán at the Fiesta Purépecha running Thursday, December 12 to Sunday, December 15 at the Ajijic Plaza.

Chapala’s Centro Integral de Justicia Regional (Cenijure), located on the outskirts of Hacienda de Labor, has been rated as the worst of nine Jalisco prisons in a recent evaluation by the National Commission of Human Rights (CNDH).