The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Since many of lakeside’s traditional festivities are considered incomplete without a ruling monarch, it’s no surprise that the area has been rife with beauty pageants held during the run up to this week’s celebration of Independence Day.
After months of a general public perception that the Chapala area enjoys a low rate of high impact robbery, the scenario has undergone a dramatic shift over the past week with a rash of auto thefts reported through local social media networks.
Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre Curiel is preparing to deliver the Informe de Gobierno (state of the municipality report) covering the first year of the 2021-2024 administration that will take place Monday, September, 6 p.m., at the city’s central plaza.
Local school kids make up color guards that will march in the Día de Independencia parades on the morning of Friday, September 16.
This summer, pickleball players have chipped in to repair and repaint the playground at the primary school (primaria) located in Ajijic’s Tepalo neighborhood, as well as purchase 40 new sports balls of various sizes, and remove a tree stump from the site.
Two men and a woman were taken into custody in the aftermath of a gun battle between public security officers and criminal suspects that broke out Tuesday, September 13, in the Chapala suburb of Riberas del Pilar.
Among all the colorful festivities tied into this month’s celebration of Mexican Independence, none quite equal Ajijic’s Regatta de Globos, the dazzling exhibition of hot-air balloons hand-crafted from rainbow-hued tissue paper that will take place Saturday, September 10, at the Cruz Azul soccer field.
An elderly foreigner presumed to be a U.S. citizen was pronounced dead of natural causes where his body was found Tuesday, August 30 on the west end of Ajijic.
On the night of Thursday, September 15, crowds will gather in lakeside communities and elsewhere all across the nation to recall Miguel Hidalgo’s famed Cry for Independence.
