The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
As recent public opinion polls show President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) sinking in popularity ratings, a national movement calling for his resignation appears to be gaining steam.
In a dramatic turn of events unfolding within a matter of hours after several hundred people gathered at the steps of Chapala City Hall to call for action concerning a rash of abductions of local inhabitants, state authorities announced that a police raid at an Ajijic property resulted in the rescue of eight persons being held there against their will.
Around 30 of the merchants who do business in the tourist zone at Chapala’s Malecón staged a protest march Sunday, June 7, clamoring for the local government’s authorization to reopen their stalls, shuttered since late March due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
While calling on citizens to redouble efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the Chapala government is simultaneously launching a campaign to prevent the outbreak of a dengue epidemic.
Chapala police have registered two murders and a presumed suicide since the beginning of June.
Chapala’s Mercado Municipal is ready for prime time following the conclusion of a six-month renovation project.
As the incidence of Covid-19 infection in the north shore corridor has surged this month, public anxiety over the identification of patients and persons they may have exposed has likewise been on the rise.
The Frente Nacional Anti AMLO (FRENA) announced that Chapala has been added to the list of places where protests against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be held on Saturday, June 13.
Confirmed Covid-19 cases in Chapala jumped from two on Thursday, June 4 to 11 on Sunday, June 7, while the tally in Jocotepec rose from five to nine over the same period, with the municipality’s first death attributed to the disease, according to statistics reported on the Jalisco Department of Health (SSJ) Radar system.
