The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Chapala’s Urban Planning Office is tentatively scheduled to reopen on Tuesday, November 24, after closing its doors November 6 when four of its eight staffers were diagnosed with Covid-19.
The north side of the Ajijic plaza will be undergoing some minor improvements scheduled to get under way no later than next week, according Chapala Mayor Moisés Anaya.
The official holiday calendar marks the third Monday of this month as the day to commemorate the November 20, 1910, outbreak of the Mexican Revolution.
Chapala’s Civil Registry office could be one of the first Jalisco municipalities to take a groundbreaking step forward on issues of human and LGBTQ rights by approving the petition of a person seeking official recognition of a change in gender identity.
Lack of personnel was cited as the reason that the commander of the 14th Guardia National (GN) Battalion headquartered in Jocotepec has scrapped plans to assign a detachment of his forces to a sub-base in Chapala.
Another casualty of the pandemic is Ajijic’s annual fiestas patronales, a nine-day blowout honoring the town’s patron saint, San Andrés Apostal.
Mayor Moisés Anaya welcomed Gustavo Camacho, his counterpart from Pico Rivera, California, to Chapala November 10 to push forward on establishing an official sister city relationship between the two communities.
Like many other local inhabitants, I was astonished by Mayor Moy Anaya’s announcement that his administration is reviving the attempt to earn a Pueblo Mágico title for Ajijic.
Last week’s activation of the statewide Covid-19 “emergency button” notwithstanding, the Chapala government is forging ahead with a number of public works projects.
