General News

The Chapala government has announced a changing of the guard at the municipal public security department, following the November 17 resignation of Sergio Conzuelo Ramírez who had headed the police force for just over one year.

The townspeople of Ajijic are ready to set aside daily routines for the town’s annual salute to patron saint San Andrés Apostol.

This year’s revival of traditional parades commemorating the Mexican Revolution drew throngs of spectators to lakeside streets last weekend.

The new stamped concrete surface at the intersection of Chapala’s Avenidas Madero and Hidalgo was completed and reopened to traffic almost on schedule Sunday, November 13.

While Ajijic is considered the focal point for lakeside street art, new examples of outdoor murals are constantly popping up in other north shore communities.

Frustrated with the failure of the National Water Commission (Conagua) to take action against unlawful incursions along Lake Chapala’s shoreline federal zone, local activists demanded entry to the session of the Operation and Oversight Commission (COVI) of the Lerma-Chapala Basin Council held Thursday, November 10 at Ajijic’s Hotel Real.

The Lake Chapala Jewish Congregation (LCJC) is raising a public outcry after the November 2 discovery of anti-Semitic graffiti painted on the wall of a private property in Ajijic.

The Chapala government has taken over management of the canine refuge in Hacienda de la Labor following the resignation of Flower Fowler, the independent dog rescue activist who took charge of the facility last July.