Chapala’s Public Works Department has initiated the ground-up reconstruction of pedestrian crosswalks along Avenida Francisco Madero, the city’s central north-south traffic artery.

Members of the Chapala City Council and auxiliary staff hit the road Thursday, May 23 to carry out an inspection tour of local public transportation services.

Juan Ramón Álvarez López (left) was named to maintain his post as director of Chapala’s Preparatoria Regional for the 2019-2022 term.

The Lake Chapala Bird Festival, held each year under the auspices of Instituto Corazón de la Tierra (ICT), is taking place through Sunday, June 9, with a program of activities starting in the framework of the local government’s Sustainable Energy Expo running this weekend at the Chapala Malecón.

As if the current Chapala government hadn’t already started out with a heap of financial and legal troubles inherited from previous administrations, new headaches have emerged in recent days.

For altering the federal zone of Lake Chapala without proper authorization from the National Water Commission (Conagua), the Chapala government is facing a steep fine and the possible demolition of the Jesús Pescador statue and unfinished bridge linking the waterfront Malecón to the artificial island where the towering religious figure stands.