The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Bonsai enthusiasts from all over Mexico will congregate in Chapala later this month to attend the 10th annual national convention of the Federacion Mexicana de Bonsai, headquartered at the Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo.
Mexico, and especially Lake Chapala, should ready itself for a new influx of expat retirees.
The Instituto Tecnologico Superior de Chapala (ITS) is one of a dozen college level technological schools nationwide selected to take part in the development of a new curriculum geared to train engineers in digital animation and visual effects.
Tequila Film Studio selected locations in downtown Chapala to shoot a new commercial entitled Cochinito (piggybank) for the drink mix product Frutimax.
The three top contenders for Jalisco’s governor’s chair have pledged to defend Mexico’s largest lake to the hilt.
Around 400 lakesiders gathered Sunday, April 22 for a candlelight peace march through the streets of Ajijic.
Lakeside headquarters for the Jalisco Traffic Department (SVT) moved into new digs in downtown Chapala early this month, offering only limited services pending reconnection of its telephone line.
Lake Chapala is showing a dramatic dip as the dry season evaporation rate takes its toll. The water lapping on the shoreline in front of Chapala’s Malecon promenade has become so shallow that bathers can now easily wade out as far as the artificial island holding up the Jesus Pescador statue. 
So far April has been a frantic month for the men at Chapala’s fire department. Over the past three weeks they have been called out to battle seven forest fires, stamp out two brush fires and attend to three other incendiary incidents in closed structures.
