Agents of the Jalisco Investigation Police, in coordination with the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Chapala municipal police, recently recovered and seized heavy-duty construction machinery reported as stolen during their execution of a search warrant at the Colinas de Montebello housing development on the outskirts of San Antonio Tlayacapan.

The body of well-known local athlete Enrique Camarena Camberos was discovered in the hills above the lakeside village of Tlachichilco del Carmen on Saturday, December 27.

By a majority vote in the Jalisco State Legislature, the Magic Town of Ajijic will break administrative ties with Chapala to become the 126th municipality in the state of Jalisco.

The recent vote was approved by all legislators except for members of the Partido Acción Nacional, acting in solidarity with Mayor Alejandro Aguirre, who stands to go down in history for losing Chapala’s principal cash cow.

Election of Ajijic’s first mayor and city Council is slated for April 1, 2026. The new independent government will be seated on July 4.

Although the City Hall press office had not yet released pertinent information at press time, we can assume that the Chapala government will sponsor a public New Year’s Eve shindig as it has in recent years.

The Guadalajara Chamber of Commerce (Canaco) has named the Lake Chapala Society the most resilient enterprise in the lakeside region.

A highlight of the December 19 Virgen de Zapopan pilgrimage to Chapala will be the 4 p.m. ceremony on the waterfront Malecón, where Mayor Alejandro Aguirre and San Francisco Parish Priest Juan José Chávez Ramírez will present a new insignia to the revered icon.