The Chapala government began phasing in the operation of the municipal traffic department this week with a start-up corps of ten officers, a patrol truck and two four-wheel all-terrain motorcycles at its disposal.

Two young men perished and another suffered grave injuries from a single car crash at the north end of Chapala’s Avenida Madero, reported on Monday, October 30.

With growth of the Chapala region’s expatriate community surging at an all-time high, the expansion of high quality health care services only adds to the area’s magnetism for retirees.

Shopkeepers and householders from the vicinity of Calle Morelos are appealing to municipal authorities to ban informal commerce that is overrunning the Andador Axixic, a two-block stretch south of Ocampo-Consitución designated as a weekend pedestrian-only gastronomic and cultural zone.

Long a taboo in Mexican culture, cremation is finally gaining wider acceptance as a suitable method for putting to rest the remains of the dearly departed.

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado took a big step forward in creating a municipal traffic department with the October 16 swearing in of Reinaldo Martínez Villanueva as commanding officer.