General News

The Chapala government has announced plans to rent a privately owned office building in Riberas del Pilar to house a number of its agencies.

Although the abundant 2021 rainy season has pumped up Lake to Chapala to 75 percent of full holding capacity, recent news on the state of its pollution levels is rather bleak.

Chapala’s homegrown politician Jesús Cabrera Jiménez has picked up a new government post, recently named by Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro to serve as Director General of Economic Development under the state’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sadar).

Regular trash collection in Chapala and Jocotepec was interrupted over the past weekend when garbage trucks servicing the neighboring municipalities were temporarily denied entry to the landfill facility in Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos where their solid wastes are deposited.

The work of Chapala’s police and traffic departments is being  enhanced with the acquisition of extra vehicles for their respective fleets.

The Virgin of Zapopan arrived for an overnight vigil at Chapala’s San Francisco parish on Wednesday, October 27, repeating the customary fall visit of Lake Chapala’s religious patroness in thanksgiving for the benefits of the rainy season.

Foreign citizens traveling and living in Mexico should be aware that immigration authorities have become more uncompromising in applying policies regarding checking of official documents.

Jalisco’s Secretariat of Security reports that state police have been picking up individuals suspected of being involved in the trade of illicit substances during routine patrols in the municipality of Chapala