General News

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.

Chapala squeaked past Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos in back-to-back semifinal matches May 9 and 16 to progress to the 2021 Copa Jalisco final.

Jalisco candidates for elective office will wrap up campaign activities over the coming week, adhering to the moratorium on electioneering imposed by law from June 2 to the June 6 election date.

Despite scheduling glitches and some initial management issues, Chapala’s second and final Covid inoculation round for seniors over age 60 wrapped up Saturday, May 15.

Alerted to what appears to be an illegal intervention on Lake Chapala´s shoreline, around 100 protestors gathered Saturday, May 22 to demand government protection for the beach area of Alceseca located on Ajijic’s western outskirts.

A film crew with the Dshopping tour agency spent six days in Ajijic over the past week gathering material for a promotional video on the village that will be featured on the company’s WhatsApp platform.

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.

A number of Ajijic residents are expressing outrage over the recent appearance of a series of billboards put up along the Guadalajara-Chapala highway and the north shore roadway.