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Aguirre to appoint town delegates

Alejandro Aguirre Curiel announced that he will name interim administrators to take charge of Chapala’s five Delegacion offices and three smaller government agencies once he takes office as mayor on Friday, October 1.


Portrait of extinct Chapala beast

The discovery of the skeletal remains of a giant pre-historic critter long hidden on Lake Chapala’s shoreline has been memorialized in a mural painted on the face of an abandoned tar storage tank located adjacent to the highway at the entrance to Santa Cruz de la Soledad.

Giant star in mini globo show

Although Ajijic’s traditional Regatta de Globos was cancelled for the second consecutive year, keen-eyed folks looking skyward on the afternoon of Saturday, September 11 observed an alternative hot-air balloon spectacle put on without a public audience.

Ajijic artists paint the town

The streets of Ajijic have been adorned with five paintings recently completed by the winners of the Pueblo Mágico mural contest organized by the Chapala government.