General News

While Lake Chapala has been on a steady rise since the start of the rainy season in mid-June, experts on water resource management are concerned that government authorities aren’t doing enough to protect the environmental and prevent climate change disaster. 

Leaders of the Chapala area business community are anxious to see a dynamic and well-qualified person take charge as chief officer of the regional branch of Jalisco’s Ministry of Tourism (Seturjal).

Famed cartoonist Jose Trinidad Camacho went public this week revealing how he escaped an attempted kidnapping while driving the Guadalajara-Chapala highway late one night en route to his lakeside home. 

Creative teens belonging to the Jocotepec Preparatoria Science Club took top prizes at the Codigo Ciencia science fair held in June 12 and 13 in Guadalajara, earning them qualification to enter their outstanding projects in top-level national and international contests.

U.S. citizen Edward Joseph Levinson, 84, was found dead in the Ajijic apartment where he lived early Monday, July 6.  

Complying with a recommendation by the Jalisco Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ), members of the Chapala city council voted in favor of offering a public apology to six residents of Ajijic who complained of being subjected to stigmatization and threats derived from their opposition to the government’s street improvement project in the village center.

A University of Guadalajara research project is looking into a possible link between the pesticide Lindane and the incidence of childhood obesity among youngsters aged two to five born in Chapala and Jocotepec. 

A huge work crew is laboring furiously to complete the massive reconstruction of Chapala’s Avenida González Gallo by the end of this month.