Five of the seven registered candidates in the race for the Chapala mayor’s seat have confirmed their participation in the municipality’s first-ever officially 

sanctioned campaign debate. The event, organized under the auspices of the District 17 Electoral Council, will take place on Tuesday, May 26, starting at 6 p.m., in closed quarters on the campus of Chapala’s Escuela Preparatoria Regional.

Three lakeside area resident expatriates were swallowed up by Lake Chapala’s treacherous waters after setting off on a sailing excursion Monday, May 18.

The modus operandi of a break-in reported last week at a home on the west side of Ajijic suggests the reappearance of the infamous pepper-spray bandit who has targeted numerous expat residences over the past several years. 

After nearly two years in the works, Jocotepec’s newly finished community hospital went into operation on Saturday, May 16. 

Given an opportunity to air their views on how to address Chapala’s most urgent problems, contenders for the mayor’s seat inexplicably side stepped the local government’s financial crunch at a candidates’ forum held at the Instituto Tecnologico Superior (ITS) campus on Tuesday.

In a story published in the May 8 edition of Guadalajara daily El Informador, Chapala was one of 12 Jalisco municipalities singled out for spending more resources on servicing public debt than on funding public works.