The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
City government work crews this week completed the bulk of the makeover of the pedestrian walkways along Chapala’s central avenue, leaving everything ready for the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), Telmex and local businesses to kick in on the last stage of the project.
Friends of Ixtlahuacan restaurant owner Francisco Ricardo Vargas Garcia, who was shot and killed on April 30, want the community to know that the family has re-opened their popular Cinco Potrillos restaurant.
At least 15 bodies, some of them badly mutilated and dismembered, have been discovered in two vehicles abandoned just off the Guadalajara-Chapala highway in the municipality of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Testing of electronic voting booths in Chapala, Jocotepec and Tequila revealed serious flaws ahead of the July 1 elections.
Candidates vying to win the Chapala mayor’s seat have hit the physical and virtual campaign trail for all they’re worth.
Once again, animal activist Geoffrey Kaye, founder of the Animal Shelter and its attached dog adoption center in Riberas del Pilar, is faced with the possibility of closure.
The Jalisco Electoral Institute (IEPC) has scheduled its third trial run of electronic gear to be employed for the 2012 state and local elections in 43 designated municipalities, including Chapala, Jocotepec, Poncitlan and Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Residents of the Chapala area are reeling under a pall of shock and dismay after learning that a number of its native sons were among the bodies of 18 persons found early Wednesday, May 9 in the boundaries of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Bonsai enthusiasts from all over Mexico will congregate in Chapala later this month to attend the 10th annual national convention of the Federacion Mexicana de Bonsai, headquartered at the Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo.
