The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Persons inclined to consume alcoholic beverages over this weekend might want to hustle to stock up their household bars before the Chapala government imposes temporary restrictions on local liquors sales. (A ban won’t be in effect in Guadalajara, however!)
A giant banner strung up on the facade of Chapala City Hall shows the local soccer team, which finished runners-up in the May 23 Copa Jalisco final against Cihuatlán.
The first round of inoculations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were administered to persons 50 to 59 years old and pregnant women age 18 and up past nine weeks of gestation, at various lakeshore locations this week, starting Monday, May 31.
It’s the season for nature lovers at lakeside to keep an eye out for after-dark spectacles as different types of night-blooming cereus cacti burst into flower in their gardens and neighborhoods.
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.
June 1 marked exactly one year since the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was registered in the municipality of Chapala, coming almost three months after state health authorities detected the spread of the viral disease in Jalisco.
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.
Those Chapala area residents who had expressed concern over the efficacy of the Sinovac Covid vaccine may be relieved by the recent decision taken by the World Health Organization to approve the Chinese-made shot for emergency use for people over 18.
Just as the renovation of the Ajijic plaza’s north corridor appeared to nearing conclusion, village residents have begun raising their voices over a variety of concerns and apparent blunders in the project.
