General News

Alejandro Aguirre of the National Action Party (PAN) is filing a series of appeals intended to overturn the result of Chapala’s mayoral race. He is citing a host of irregularities during the process.

As lakeside’s expat community grows by leaps and bounds, an increasing number of foreign born residents are obtaining Mexican citizenship, with voting rights to boot.

Moisés Anaya Aguilar has been declared Chapala’s mayor-elect following the July 10 announcement of the final vote breakdown.

In a nail-biting photo-finish, Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) candidate Moisés Anaya Aguilar appears to be the victor in Chapala’s contentious mayoral race.

A potent storm that struck Lake Chapala’s north shore around dawn on Thursday, July 12 provoked flooding and landslides in the vicinity of El Chante on the eastern outskirts of Jocotepec.

Jalisco’s Ministry of the Environment and Territorial Development (SEMADET) has given the Chapala government a short deadline to clean-up and relocate a used tire depository that went up in flames in the pre-dawn hours of June 14.

The part-time English teacher accused of molesting her pupils at the Fray Juan Ruiz de Cabañas y Crespo pre-school in San Nicolás de Ibarra has been sentenced to a four-year prison term on three counts of aggravated sexual abuse.

Lake Chapala’s rainy season period of recuperation is off to a rip-roaring start this year, with a 30-centimeter rise in the water level registered over ten days during the second half of June.