The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The mayors of Jocotepec and Chapala are on board for a new era of transparency, joining in as affiliates of the Jalisco branch of the Colectivo Ciudadanos por Municipios Transparentes (CIMTRA), a national network of citizen advocacy groups related to government accountability.
The delivery man for the Lala milk company was caught in the act of stealing merchandise from a popular grocery store located on Chapala’s main avenue on Tuesday, January 15.
Jocotepec is in the grips of two straight weeks of unbridled festivity centered on devotion to the town’s spiritual patron El Señor del Monte (The Lord of the Mount).
Extinction Rebellion is an international movement dedicated to raising the alarm about the dire threat of climate change by using public parades to force governments to take action.
The Chapala government is still struggling to sort out differences with GIRRSA, the private company granted a 20-year concession by the previous administration to collect the municipality’s solid waste.
Presiding at his first town meeting with inhabitants of Ajijic Monday, January 7, Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya pledged to stand against development near the Tepalo waterfalls and hiking trail, in the interest of preserving the natural landscape.
Chapala’s SIMAPA water service agency took quick action to replace a faulty sewage line in San Antonio Tlayacapan that sprung leaks late last week, releasing foul-smelling wastewater along streets running directly into the lake.
Motorists in the Lake Chapala area have encountered sporadic fuel shortages at local service stations over the past week.
In a historic first, the Chapala government is taking public opinion into account for setting priorities for spending the municipality’s 2019 tax and service revenues.
