The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A giant statue of the Virgin of Zapopan mounted at the Chapala waterfront for her July 12 visit to Lake Chapala has been given a permanent home on the boardwalk, just across the street from the San Francisco church.
The Ajijic pier and the shabby abandoned restaurant attached to its east side will be getting a major facelift at the expense of prominent Guadalajara businessman Hector Fabio Rizzo Jasso and well-heeled investors from the city’s gastronomic services sector.
If you’re out and about in the Chapala area these days, you might have the impression that local traffic officers are hounding motorists who violate the rules of the road.
Hundreds of off-road enthusiasts roared into Riberas del Pilar last Sunday to mix it up at lakeside’s 17th Festival del Lodo.
Watch skilled drivers perform dazzling road tricks at Autoslalom competition scheduled for Saturday, July 11 in the heart of downtown Chapala.
Although enforcement of Jalisco’s obligatory vehicle emission testing program has been lax in the lakeside area in the past, local traffic department commander Eduardo Miranda Moreno warns that officers are now on the lookout for cars and trucks lacking up-to-date inspection stickers and out-of-state models that visibly spew pollutants.
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.
California State Senator Benjamin Hueso received a warm welcome Tuesday, July 21 on his second visit to Chapala in pursuit of a sealing a cooperative agreement with his home district.
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.
