General News

A federal judge has ordered the Chapala government to stop construction of a high-rise apartment building going up adjacent to the Nimue nautical sports club in lower La Floresta. 

While the landing of a Black Hawk helicopter on Chapala’s municipal soccer field raised alarm among the public on February 20, the maneuver was executed to deliver several high-ranking Naval officers for an appointment at the local Capitanía del Puerto (Port Captain Command Post).

Three pedestrians recently lost their lives to hit-and-run drivers in separate accidents that occurred along the Chapala-Jocotepec highway.

Ricardo Vera Lira, chief of the Jalisco branch of the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), welcomed 103 foreign immigrants into the fold during a patriotic ceremony held Friday, February 24 at the Centro Cultural Ajijic.

The first Senior Tennis Tournament, a doubles round robin, will take place Thursday to Sunday, March 16-19 at the Raquet Club in San Juan Cosala.

After an extended lull, another rash of canine deaths by poisoning has raised concerns among Ajijic residents over the past week.

A police task force operating under command of Jalisco’s Attorney General Office swooped in the Chapala area Wednesday, February 22

While Chapala’s Carnaval celebration heads toward a feverish finale, Ajijic is simultaneously cutting loose with its own last blast of frivolity before the start of Lent.