The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In the wake of the controversy over the uprooting of a half-dozen roadside trees in Ajijic three weeks ago, Chapala area residents have started raising eyebrows over the more recent removal of trees in the municipal seat.
The Chapala government is crying foul after detecting at least a half- dozen cloned Facebook pages falsely attributed to city hall officials and department chiefs.
On the heels of a series of successful exhibitions, members of the Lake Chapala Fine Artists Guild have honed the group’s structure by electing a steering committee to further its goal of promoting fine art through collective shows, as an alternative to solo exhibits and handicraft art markets.
The famed Ballet Folclórico de la Universidad de Guadalajara returns for a summer season, with shows scheduled at two prestigious venues: the Teatro Degollado and the Conjunto Santander.
Officials from the Jalisco branch of the National Agrarian Registry (RAN) came to Chapala on Wednesday, July 26 to deliver 200 ejido (communal land) titles to local farmers.
The Chapala government has provided job opportunities to 70 local men and women accepted into the Temporary Employment Program (PET) sponsored by Jalisco’s Labor and Social Welfare Ministry (STyPSJ).
In addition to the new Volaris flight from the GDL Airport to Loreto in Baja California, covered in last week’s edition of this newspaper, the low-cost airline has also launched two other flights from the Jalisco capital to popular Mexican coastal resorts.
The breakdown this year’s benefits for Ajijic Pueblo Mágico came to approximately 800,000 pesos (US$47,400) spent on street signs, maps and information totems installed to guide visitors to points of interest, 620,000 pesos (US$36,725) for tourist agent salaries, and 500,000 pesos (US$29,620) for the new waste management system.
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) last week released the results of the National Census of the Federal and State Penitentiary System based on data from 2022.
