General News

As a prelude to this year’s Xupinaya mountain race, family, friends and admirers gathered at the Ajijic plaza Saturday, July 30 to honor the late Gerardo “Nardo” López Castellanos, one of the town’s most eminent foot racers.

Friday, July 29, an officer assigned to Chapala’s Municipal Traffic Department spotted a Mazda SUV reported stolen on July 26. On inspection of the vehicle, officers noticed that it had superimposed license tags.

Officers from Chapala’s Department of Urban Planning and Development (DDU) shutdown three residential units under construction in the Rancho Santa María subdivision, tucked into rural land on the city’s northern outskirts.

Lake Chapala’s south shore remains immersed in a wave of criminal activity, as three men were shot to death on Monday, July 25 in the municipality of Tizapán el Alto.

As a first step towards solving recurrent deficiencies in solid waste collection services throughout the municipality, the Chapala government is launching a review of the productivity of Grupo Integral de Recolección y Reciclados de Occidente (GIRRSA), the private company contracted to collect the community’s trash and deliver it to a landfill facility in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos.

Chapala resident Mere Ortega Vega survived a devastating multiple vehicle pile-up that occurred Thursday July 28 on the Guadalajara-Chapala highway on the downhill lanes a short distance beyond the entrance to the Hotel Tapatio.

Local motorists are bracing for traffic woes in navigating downtown Chapala as the first stage of the renovation of Avenida Francisco Madero kicked off this week.

More than 500 intrepid trail runners tackled Ajijic’s renowned Carrera Xupinaya on Sunday, July 31, with scores of supporters and spectators swarming the plaza to cheer them on from start to finish.