Carlos Bernardo Gutierrez Navarro, director of the Jalisco division of the federal Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT), is promising to improve the condition of highways throughout the lakeshore region.

Citizen’s Movement (MC) and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) candidates dominated the mayoral elections throughout the lakeshore region and most neighboring municipalities.

Javier Degollado Gonzalez, head of the Institutional Revolutionary Party-Mexico Green Ecologist Coalition (PRI-PVEM) election slate, has been declared the winner in a tight race for mayor (presidente municipal) of Chapala.

Barring legal actions that might turn around the June 7 election results, Javier Degollado is scheduled to take charge as Chapala’s new chief executive on Thursday, October 1. 

Chapala police patrols were mobilized on Tuesday, June 9 to provide back-up for state agents reported to be in hot pursuit of a cargo truck used to transport  fuel stolen from Pemex pipelines.

After eight weeks of political rallies, neighborhood marches, a proliferation of election propaganda and rampant mud-slinging on social media, the sound and fury of the 2015 campaign season finally died down in the Chapala area this week, leaving around 34,000 registered voters with three quiet days to reflect upon who is most fit to sit as the municipality’s next mayor.