General News

It was a night of hopeful anticipation as some 150 members of the Democrats Abroad Lake Chapala Chapter gathered at Ajijic’s Club Exotica Tuesday to follow the mid-term election returns, eyes glued to CNN coverage showing on a half-dozen flat screen monitors spread around the upstairs bar.

The Indigenous Community of Mezcala de la Asunción has won a significant round in a tangled 19-year legal battle to recover communal property overtaken by a powerful Guadalajara businessman.

After getting a preliminary grasp on the financial mess he inherited upon taking office October 1, Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya is beginning to implement belt-tightening measures.

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Viva la Musica welcomes Charles Nath and Marita Zimmer playing Brahms and Schumann quintets at the Auditorio de La Ribera in La Floresta, Friday, November 9, 7 p.m.

Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya sat down in front of a video camera set up at the waterfront Malecón early Monday, October 29, for the debut of weekly live transmissions to run on the local government’s Facebook page as a means of communicating with his constituents.

Chapala Public Security Amador Baena Pinzón lead local reporters on an inspection tour of the unfinished police department headquarters that has been under construction since last November near the Soriana supermarket.

Ajijic is the latest lakeshore town to be identified with its name displayed at the waterfront Malecón with Mexico’s largest lake as a scenic backdrop.

Dr. Julio Cesar Moreno (standing at center) is acting as the point man for lakeshore mayors who are planning to join forces with the private sector and NGOs to build a regional medical clinic for the prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease.