General News

Year after year, Ajijic’s madcap Año Nuevo parade has wowed spectators with creative handiwork applied to a string of quirky floats, platoons of paraders decked out in funny costumes, plenty of high-spirited antics and the lively tunes of marching bands peppered with potent sky rockets.

Good things are bound to happen when community leaders put their heads together for a common cause.

Chapala´s Sanitation Department has issued notice that regularly scheduled trash collection has been suspended for Thursday, December 31, and Friday, January 1, due to the holiday closing of the landfill facility that handles deposits of the municipality’s solid waste.

Demonstrating solidarity with Chapala families most vulnerable to the Covid-19 health emergency, the OXXO convenience store chain has donated a load of goods to be distributed to those most in need through the local Family Development Agency (DIF).

Juan Diego Castro Morales and Fredi Rayo Razo have vaulted over the first hurdle to qualify as independent candidates for Chapala’s mayoral race, set for June 6, 2021.

Due to risk of Covid-19 transmission, lakeside area Roman Catholic churches have scaled back their traditional Christmas season activities.

It’s a fun name to learn to pronounce; Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos. It’s easier if you pretend it’s two words, Ixtla and then huacán. 

Following a December 21 alert of suspicious activity spotted in the vicinity of the Chapala Media Park, municipal police captured five male suspects apparently involved in stealing computer equipment from the vacant tech business complex.