The Guadalajara Reporter
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The beloved statue of the Virgen de Zapopan is scheduled to tour lakeshore communities over the coming week as is customary in the latter half of October, to give thanks for each year’s rainy season.
Following last week’s announcement of the closing of Chapala area cemeteries on Monday, November 2, the local government order has been amended to cover the extended three-day period of Day of the Dead commemorations starting Saturday, October 31, as dictated by state authorities.
Local law enforcement authorities have reportedly broken up a presumed gang of robbers that preyed on distributors of commercial merchandise working in the lakeshore region and elsewhere in the interior of Jalisco.
As Chapala’s Protección Civil y Bomberos (firefighters) unit continues the hunt for at least one crocodile spotted recently along Lake Chapala’s shoreline, an aquatic team from state Civil Protection was dispatched last week to join the search.
Alerted by a citizen report on Monday, October 19, agents of Chapala’s traffic department found an abandoned Toyota van parked on an isolated dirt road located off the Libramiento bypass near the local Instituto Tecnológico Mario Molina.
Chapala’s Malecon is receiving throngs of weekend visitors, with many flouting Covid-19 mask wearing regulations.
Chapala police officers apprehended a local man accused of destroying 18 young trees planted in the barriers bordering the Carretera cycling path, reported in the early hours of Thursday, October 15.
With the coronavirus pandemic still rampant in Jalisco, lakeside residents are concerned about the prospect of a seasonal influenza outbreak looming on the horizon.
The seven suspects rounded up in Ajijic in an October 7 sting will be processed for prosecution on charges of drug dealing and possession of illegal weapons, the Jalisco’s Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia or FGE) says.
