The three top contenders for Jalisco’s governor’s chair have pledged to defend Mexico’s largest lake to the hilt.

Lakeside headquarters for the Jalisco Traffic Department (SVT) moved into new digs in downtown Chapala early this month, offering only limited services pending reconnection of its telephone line.

So far April has been a frantic month for the men at Chapala’s fire department. Over the past three weeks they have been called out to battle seven forest fires, stamp out two brush fires and attend to three other incendiary incidents in closed structures.

Micki Wendt said she got a huge surprise when she reviewed photographs she took the day before on the San Antonio malecon.

A lackluster government project to resurface the Ajijic plaza has morphed into a titanic community initiative to create a public showcase for its talented artists and tradesmen.

The discovery of three corpses dumped on the side of the highway on the eastern outskirts of San Juan Cosala early Saturday, April 14 has put lakesiders in a state of shock over a rising tide in criminal violence.