Taking action on the heels of recent rumors that investors have set their eyes on Ajijic’s neighboring mountain range to plant new residential developments, concerned residents have mobilized to form Vigilantes de la Ribera, a non-political civil association designed to act as a guardian of lakeside’s natural resources.

Rumors that the coveted mountain landscape overlooking Ajijic is under immediate threat of devastation by developers sparked an uproar among village inhabitants, despite public denials from outgoing city hall officials.

Following the September 30 inauguration ceremony held before a full house at the Auditorio de la Ribera, Chapala’s 2018-2021 municipal administration headed by Moisés Anaya Aguilar is up and running this week.

Any doubts that Jalisco authorities have the manpower and capacity to respond to a security crisis were dispelled Wednesday, October 4 when scores of police patrols swooped into the north shore area in response to a shoot-out between a presumed gang of kidnappers and state investigators hot on their trail.

Dozens of state police patrols swooped into the north shore area around noon on Wednesday, October 3 following a reported shootout between criminals and investigators from the anti-kidnapping unit in the vicinity of the Hotel Perico on the Chapala-Ajijic Libramiento.

More than two dozen children enrolled at the Escuela Primaria Cuauhtémoc in San Antonio Tlayacapan have been outfitted with school uniforms and shoes provided by the Sunday Community Group affiliated with Lakeside Presbyterian Church (LCP).