General News

With state and federal elections looming on the horizon in June 2018, December is the time of year when a crop of hopefuls jostle for position as political parties select their candidates for office.

Guadalajara’s Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, one of Mexico’s most important transportation nuclei, is acquiring more and more the aspect of a wildebeest expiring on the African savannah, yanked every which way by animals of varying size and strength.

While advancement on the Ajijic highway makeover chugs along at a snail’s pace, dimming prospects for completion by the projected November 20 finish date, the Chapala government is forging ahead on a variety of other public works programs elsewhere in the municipality.

There’s a typewriter repair shop on Calle Libertad one block north of Plaza Nueve Esquinas, a stone’s throw south-west of Guadalajara’s historic center.

When news of the September 19 earthquake reached lakeside, the point men for Chapala Sunrise Rotary’s relief effort, President-Elect Hector España and Past-President Walter Thornton, came up with a game plan.

This year’s Capriotada festival was a big hit with locals and out-of-town visitors. More than ten people served up their version of Mexico’s sweet and savory Lenten bread pudding.

Citizens have stepped up to the plate and responded en masse to Tuesday’s deadly earthquake by flocking to donation centers (centros de acopio) with medicines, food, water, blankets and other basic supplies.

Jazz Fest

Jazz musicians from Mexico, the United States, Costa Rica and France are listed in the line-up for Chapala’s International Jazz Festival, Friday, March 17 through Sunday, March 19 at the open-air stage located on the eastern leg of the city’s waterfront Malecón.