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Stalwart environmental center tailors recycling program

Casa Cem, a fixture on Guadalajara’s Avenida Chapultepec since 2009 and founded two years earlier by a determined individual, Sofia Chavez, in Colonia Seattle, has re-launched its centro de acopio, which accepts a wide range of recyclable materials, after closing it for many months in response to the Covid pandemic.


‘Drops of Pride’ at lakeside

Each year, the month of June is called LGBTIQ+ Pride Month, in commemoration of the struggle for the rights of people of sexual diversity, taking as a banner the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969.

Chapalenses reject second aqueduct proposal 

Chapala residents and politicians from the lakeshore region are raising hell over a proposal to solve the critical water shortages in the Guadalajara metropolitan area (ZMG) by constructing a new aqueduct to extract the vital liquid from Lake Chapala.

Ajijic ‘Magic Town’ committee in the works

Nearly six months after Ajijic was granted status as Jalisco’s ninth Pueblo Mágico, the state Tourism Department (Setujal) has launched the process of forming local citizens into a committee that will play a key role in overseeing programs and projects to spur the balanced development of the town as a high-profile tourist destination.