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The Chapala government won’t be sending out paddy wagons to round up rogue residents who balk at the compulsory Covid-19 prevention measures that took effect Monday, April 20, by state mandate.

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The Chapala government won’t be sending out paddy wagons to round up rogue residents who balk at tougher Covid-19 prevention measures taking effect Monday, April 20 by state mandate. Local authorities will, however, flex their muscles to make people comply with the new directives on social distancing, staying at home and compulsory use of face masks in public, announced Sunday evening by Governor Enrique Alfaro.

Access to hiking trails in the mountain range overlooking Lake Chapala’s north shore has been closed to the public on orders of the Jalisco Environment Ministry (Semadet). The measure is part of the state’s Covid-19 prevention plan.

Chapala residents are mourning the death of native son Salvador Rodríguez Medina, who succumbed to the Covid-19 virus Monday, April 13 in Santa Ana, California.

Chapala authorities have turned away thousands of seasonal visitors at roadside checkpoints set up at entry points to the municipality since the first of this month as a measure to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the community.

Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya has stressed that his government has not imposed a local Dry Law. However, in fairness to liquor stores that will suffer significant income loss, City Hall issued instructions for chain convenience stores and supermarkets to close off their liquor shelves as well.

Dramatic representations of the Passion of Christ are a highpoint of Holy Week observances in the Lake Chapala area.In lieu of live productions cancelled for 2020, Dale Hoyt Palfrey shares still shots of Good Friday sequences from Ajijic’s Pasión de Cristo collected over previous years.