General News

After a nail-biting, ballot-by-ballot recount, José Miguel Gómez López has been declared the winner of the Jocotepec mayor’s race, defeating his nearest opponent by a mere 61 votes.

One would expect the malfunction of traffic lights at the complicated intersection of the Chapala-Jocetepec highway and the Libramiento bypass would cause chaos of epic proportions.

As the cycle of regular summer rains gets started this month, Lake Chapala is standing well below the water levels registered over the past several years.

Chapala firefighters extinguished a spectacular fire that broke out in the kitchen of La Paceña restaurant on the night of Sunday, June 6.

Staff of the local branch of Jalisco’s Tourism Department were surprised to find signs of a break-in that occurred sometime over the past weekend at the office located at the west end of the Chapala Malecón.

At press time, the mayoral race in Jocotepec remains inconclusive, although Movimiento Ciudadano (MC) incumbent José Miguel Gómez López holds a slim 63-vote lead over Futuro candidate Hugo García Vargas, according to results reported Wednesday by the Consejo Electoral in that municipality.

The 35 local students receiving support through the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) financial aid program were invited to a conference on entrepreneurship on Saturday, June 5.

Alejandro Aguirre Curiel and his Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) ticket nailed a decisive victory in the June 6 local election, foiling incumbent Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya Aguilar’s bid to recapture control of the municipal government for a second three-year term.