Uncertainty concerning the outcome of Chapala’s mayoral race went up a notch this week as legal representatives of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) and Morena revealed that Jalisco’s Electoral Tribunal (TEEJ) is considering their suits demanding the annulment of the July 1 election.

Since the onset of summer rains, swaths of aquatic weeds have sprouted up in Lake Chapala’s waters.

Blazing over the slippery, rock-studded trail in scarlet running shoes last Sunday, Fernando “Dory” Mejia Gonzalez captured his fourth consecutive title as overall champion of Ajijic’s annual Chupinaya mountain race.

Following the water spout that provoked a debris slide that crashed through the Senderos del Lago housing development at El Chante last week, Jalisco Civil Protection Director Trinidad López Rivas warns that similar disasters could strike other points along Lake Chapala’s north shore during the remainder of the rainy season.

Three-time champion Fernando “Dory” Mejía González is set to defend his title in the field of 500 scrappy runners lined up to tackle Ajijic’s grueling 13.8-kilometer Chupinaya mountain race on Sunday, July 15.

Alejandro Aguirre of the National Action Party (PAN) is filing a series of appeals intended to overturn the result of Chapala’s mayoral race. He is citing a host of irregularities during the process.