General News

Congratulations are in order for José Isabel (Chabelo) González Valenzuela of Ajijic for his outstanding performance at the Ultra Trail de Mexico race held Saturday, November 14, in Zacatlán de las Manzanas, Puebla.

Chapala’s Urban Planning Office is tentatively scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, November 24, after closing its doors November 6 when four of its eight staffers were diagnosed with Covid-19.

For the second time, the Jalisco Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ) has issued a stern recommendation to the Chapala government in connection with the May 2 detention of Preparatoria Chapala director Juan Ramón Álvarez López at the Covid-19 prevention “sanitary filter” roadblock set up on the highway entrance to the municipality at Chapala Haciendas.

The north side of the Ajijic plaza will be undergoing some minor improvements scheduled to get under way no later than next week, according Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya.

Motorists, cyclists and pedestrians, beware! Work crews are now out on the highway west of Ajijic initiating demolition of concrete barriers and trench digging for the second leg of the ciclovia (cycle path) improvement project contracted by the state government.

Chapala’s Civil Registry office could be one of the first Jalisco municipalities to take a groundbreaking step forward on issues of human and LGBTQ rights by approving the petition of a person seeking official recognition of a change in gender identity.

Members of the Cruz Roja Chapala (CRC) administrative board were sworn into office Tuesday, November 17, at a belated ceremony delayed since March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Another casualty of the pandemic is Ajijic’s annual fiestas patronales, a nine-day blowout honoring the town’s patron saint, San Andrés Apostal.