With just two and a half weeks to go before the 2018 campaign season closes, there are no indications that Chapala’s seven mayoral candidates will face off in a live public debate.

Projecting confidence of victory in the up-coming national election, presidential front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador concluded a 40-minute speech to a thundering crowd of supporters gathered May 19 at the Jocotepec Malecón with a pledge to return to the lakeshore town before assuming office next December to lay out his development and investment plan for the region.

A dispute among residents of the Vista Alegre residential complex culminated early Tuesday, May 29 with the fatal shooting of a Mexican man inflicted by the president of the condominium homeowners association (HOA), a U.S. citizen holding permanent resident status in this country.

Incumbent Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado has publicly cast doubt on Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) candidate Moises Anaya’s report of a death threat against him, and that local Partido Revolucionario Institutional (PRI) activists were culpable in its orchestration, as well as an alleged armed assault on MC supporters.

Students who completed the 2017-2018 English as a Second Language program at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) joined with teachers, family and friends as they received congratulations and certificates of recognition from LCS President Carole Wolf, LCS Education Director Alfredo Perez and LCS ESL Program Coordinator Inez Dayer, Saturday, May 12.

Olivia Hartup, a 15-year-old from San Nicolas de Ibarra, placed first in the Jalisco State Gymnastics Championship (age 15 and older, Level 7) held in Zapopan on May 3.