General News

For months on end, lakeside motorists have watched the progression of the reengineering of the busy crossroads where the Libramiento bypass intersects with the Chapala-Jocotepec highway.

In addition to the persons named in last week’s edition of this newspaper, new faces are still emerging on the local political landscape in the final days for filing registrations to seek official candidacies in Chapala’s 2021 mayoral race.

Members of the Chapala police force are better dressed for duty after receiving new uniforms doled out by Mayor Moisés Anaya during a brief ceremony held February 17 at Public Security headquarters.

After a sharp spike during December, Chapala’s official Covid-19 death toll has shown a downward trend over the first six weeks of 2021.

Poverty, poor nutrition, inadequate supplies of safe drinking water, chronic kidney disease and broken family structures are the principal quality-of-life issues faced by the inhabitants of San Pedro Izticán and other small villages located along the isolated fringes of Lake Chapala’s north shore.

Passersby may get a sense that Spring has sprung along Calle Colón, Ajijic’s central north-south thoroughfare where personnel from the Delegacíon this week nailed up dozens of plastic flower pots holding geranium plants in bloom on the exterior walls of homes and businesses.

Water tanks, solar heaters, bathroom fixtures, roofing panels and sacks of cement were distributed to 650 Chapala area families this week to complete the delivery of home improvement supplies budgeted for 2020 and provided through the “Jalisco Revive tu Hogar” social assistance program.

Isaac Trejo Gracián, a key Chapala City Hall official, has revealed that he was the target of a recent telephone extortion scam.