The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Adan Dominguez Leon, Chapala’s new municipal police chief, has told the Reporter that he hopes to replicate the success he achieved in bringing down the crime rate in the Guadalajara suburb of Tlajomulco, where he served in the same role for two and a half years.
Two former Chapala police officers have been arrested and charged with the homicide of a Guadalajara taxi driver who went missing last summer.
Jalisco’s Ministry of the Environment and Territorial Development (Semadet) has formally opened the Sendero Trojes-Chupinaya-Barranca Travesaño, a 6.5-kilometer hiking trail crossing part of the protected hydrological and forest area situated in the mountain range running above Lake Chapala’s north shore.
As of November, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) started phasing in a monthly billing system in the lakeside area.
Lake Chapala benefited from above average precipitation registered during the 2015 rainy season, recuperating 1.45 meters on the water elevation scale during the wet summer and fall months, up by 16 centimeters compared to last year.
Maintaining its commitment to enhance educational opportunities for worthy Mexican students of limited means, the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) will host a second mini-summit for organizations and individuals involved in local financial aid programs. The date is Wednesday, December 16, 10 a.m. to noon, at the LCS campus.
The new Chapala municipal government appears to be going great guns on its first major public works project, under construction along the median strip at the south end of Avenida Madero.
