The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A local fisherman drowned in Lake Chapala Sunday, November 14, after the small vessel he and two companions were using capsized while they were rowing back to shore in the vicinity of Riberas del Pilar.
Chapala traffic police and personnel from a private company were dispatched last weekend to repair defective stop lights at various intersections that are prone to traffic congestion.
The work of Chapala’s police and traffic departments is being enhanced with the acquisition of extra vehicles for their respective fleets.
Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre scooted off to Mexico City Wednesday, November 10, to join more than 350 mayors from across the nation who are clamoring for the Chamber of Deputies to cut them a bigger piece of pie in the 2022 federal budget.
Foreign citizens traveling and living in Mexico should be aware that immigration authorities have become more uncompromising in applying policies regarding checking of official documents.
The Chapala government has announced plans to rent a privately owned office building in Riberas del Pilar to house a number of its agencies.
Although the abundant 2021 rainy season has pumped up Lake to Chapala to 75 percent of full holding capacity, recent news on the state of its pollution levels is rather bleak.
Chapala’s homegrown politician Jesús Cabrera Jiménez has picked up a new government post, recently named by Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro to serve as Director General of Economic Development under the state’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sadar).
Regular trash collection in Chapala and Jocotepec was interrupted over the past weekend when garbage trucks servicing the neighboring municipalities were temporarily denied entry to the landfill facility in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos where their solid wastes are deposited.
