General News

Enrique Alfaro, on leave from his post as Guadalajara mayor to seek the Movimiento Ciudadano nomination in the 2018 governor’s race, posed for photos and selfies with his supporters during a January 4 campaign stop in Chapala.

Enjoy a razzle-dazzle welcome to 2018 compliments of the local government at the Festival de Luces events set for Sunday, December 31 at the Chapala and Ajijic waterfront promenades.

Faced with apparently insurmountable challenges in managing local garbage collection, the Chapala government has opted to contract a private company to operate the service.

Officials from Chapala’s Land Registry department (Catastro) will go on the road next week to take annual impuesto predial (property tax) payment services to the doorstep of property owners in several prime housing developments.

Officials from Jalisco’s Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Works (SIOP) have confirmed plans to rehabilitate the Chapala-Guadalajara highway in 2018.

The names of potential candidates for the Chapala mayor’s seat are starting to surface.  Juan Diego Castro Morales stands out as the first man in local history positioned to contend as an independent candidate.  The Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPC) approved his preliminary registration in late November. The next step to get his name on the ballot involves collecting 361 signatures – equivalent to one percent of the municipality’s roster of registered voters.

Three officers serving in the Ixtlahuacán de Membrillos police department were arrested on December 30 as prime suspects in the murder of a federal inspector for the federal Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) who was their acquaintance.

Still undecided on how to ring in the New Year? If dancing under the stars and watching glitzy fireworks explode over Lake Chapala sounds appealing, get in on the December 31 celebrations the Chapala government is hosting in Chapala and Ajijic.