General News

Mary Sue Torres, president of the University Vocational Assistance (UVA) scholarship program, was honored as godmother to the graduates at Chapala’s Instituto Tecnológico Superior (ITS).

If the prolongation of this year’s dry season has caused angst and discomfort amongst inhabitants of the Lake Chapala region, it has also given heightened impetus to Sembradores de Vida and other local environmental activists who lead and support community reforestation projects.

Although a picture may be worth a thousand words, photographic images only hint at the commotion that occurred when an estimated 10,000 pilgrims congregated in Chapala last Sunday to manifest their spiritual allegiance with La Virgen de Zapopan.

Back-to-back festivities will keep Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos inhabitants and visitors jumping over the last two weeks of this month.

While local weather watchers puzzle over the delay of this year’s rainy season, meteorologists attribute the atypical situation to El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern associated with warming of the ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Local motorists who do not intend to witness the celebration surrounding the Virgen de Zapopan’s traditional summer visit to Chapala would be wise to avoid driving to the downtown area on Sunday, July 9.

The sudden removal of a row of trees boarding the highway across the road from Ajijic’s Plaza Bugambilias on Tuesday, July 11 generated a hail of criticism against the Chapala government, labeled as unwarranted ecocide.

In an effort to alleviate persistent traffic tangles caused by the Avenida Madero reconstruction project, the Chapala government has conditioned two large empty lots as free public parking facilities at the north end of the city’s main artery.