The Guadalajara Reporter
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The Chapala government has provided job opportunities to 70 local men and women accepted into the Temporary Employment Program (PET) sponsored by Jalisco’s Labor and Social Welfare Ministry (STyPSJ).
The breakdown this year’s benefits for Ajijic Pueblo Mágico came to approximately 800,000 pesos (US$47,400) spent on street signs, maps and information totems installed to guide visitors to points of interest, 620,000 pesos (US$36,725) for tourist agent salaries, and 500,000 pesos (US$29,620) for the new waste management system.
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) last week released the results of the National Census of the Federal and State Penitentiary System based on data from 2022.
On the heels of a series of successful exhibitions, members of the Lake Chapala Fine Artists Guild have honed the group’s structure by electing a steering committee to further its goal of promoting fine art through collective shows, as an alternative to solo exhibits and handicraft art markets.
Disgruntled by lost revenue due to the Avenida Madero renovation project, several dozen merchants doing business along Chapala’s principal thoroughfare staged a peaceful protest march on the morning of Thursday, July 13.
Officials from the Jalisco branch of the National Agrarian Registry (RAN) came to Chapala on Wednesday, July 26 to deliver 200 ejido (communal land) titles to local farmers.
Centrally located on the northern perimeter of the town square, the Centro Cultural de Ajijic (CCA) is a popular venue for arts exhibits, classes in plastic and performance arts, recitals, concerts, dance and theater shows, conferences and public meetings.
In addition to the new Volaris flight from the GDL Airport to Loreto in Baja California, covered in last week’s edition of this newspaper, the low-cost airline has also launched two other flights from the Jalisco capital to popular Mexican coastal resorts.
The architectural design team commissioned for the renovation of the Auditorio de la Ribera complex, renamed as the Centro para la Cultura y las Artes de la Ribera (CCAR), has been selected as a finalist for the 2023 Erich Mendelsohn Award for Brick Architecture.
