General News

Access to hiking trails in the mountain range overlooking Lake Chapala’s north shore has been closed to the public on orders of the Jalisco Environment Ministry (Semadet). The measure is part of the state’s Covid-19 prevention plan.

As the coronavirus pandemic has blunted the local economy, lakeside’s unemployed and low-income families are struggling more than ever to put food on the table. Politicians, businesses leaders and emerging citizen groups are responding as Good Samaritans to aid Mexican neighbors most in need.

Chapala authorities have turned away thousands of seasonal visitors at roadside checkpoints set up at entry points to the municipality since the first of this month as a measure to help prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus in the community.

The Chapala Cruz Roja (CRC) clinic has received a supply of materials from Jalisco’s Red Cross headquarters to be used in case there is a need to attend to walk-in patients with symptoms of Covid-19 infection.

Dramatic representations of the Passion of Christ are a highpoint of Holy Week observances in the Lake Chapala area.In lieu of live productions cancelled for 2020, Dale Hoyt Palfrey shares still shots of Good Friday sequences from Ajijic’s Pasión de Cristo collected over previous years.

The Chapala government gifted a pair of brand new motor scooters to participants in a raffle held to reward early bird taxpayers.

Federal, state and local authorities have teamed up to operate roadside sanitary filters at entry points to the Lake Chapala area to discourage the arrival of holiday vacationers and prevent the spread of the Corona virus. 

Héctor España Ramos, the Chapala government’s point man for communications with the foreign community, went live yesterday with a new Facebook page called Chapala Expat Liaison, launched at the instigation of Mayor Moisés Anaya.