An elderly man, tentatively identified as a U.S. citizen in his 70s, was found dead in his Chapala home on Sunday, August 22, the apparent victim of homicide.

Following health protection measures decreed by state authorities, the Chapala government has canceled patriotic festivities traditionally scheduled during the month of September.

For the second time in just over a year, agents from the State Attorney for Environmental Protection (Proepa) have slapped a temporary total closure order on a real estate development project located on the Lake Chapala’s south shore in the municipality of Jocotepec.

The tourist information module installed several weeks ago at the Ajijic Malecón is up but not running.

Chapala’s Public Sanitation Department dispatched a crew last week to clean up trash and debris accumulated at the bottom end of the Arroyo San Marcos where it crosses under a bridge on Avenida González Gallo near the former railway station.

Exasperated because government authorities have failed to curtail what they see as privatization of federal land, dozens of Ajijic inhabitants have taken the law into their own hands to tear down fencing installed along Lake Chapala’s shoreline.