The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Large squads of agents from Jalisco’s Traffic Department (Secretaria de Movilidad or SeMov) swooped down on the lakeshore area on Sunday, August 6 for twin operations to trap drunk drivers.
Carlos Lomelí Bolaños, the pharmaceutical magnate and federal congressman for the left-of-center Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena), is donating medical supplies to residents in the lakeshore town of Poncitlan, where dozens of cases of kidney failure have been reported.
Police units from Chapala and Ixtlahuacán captured a couple implicated in the July 17 hold-up of the Pemex service station located on the main highway just beyond the Libramiento by-pass colverleaf.
Motorists beware while traveling the back streets of central Chapala. A major street repair project for a three-block segment of Calle Zaragoza under way this week will spawn detours and anticipated traffic jams in the vicinity.
On July 24, Chapala police nabbed an adult man and a male minor in possession of a 1993 Nissan Altima reported stolen by a Riberas del Pilar resident.
The itinerant Oaxaca cultural fair showcased in Poncitlán last month arrived for a week’s stay in Chapala late last week with no prior notice.
As summer harvests peak in the Lake Chapala region, neighboring Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos hosts a three-day celebration showcasing its delectable namesake fruit.
The Jalisco Traffic Department (SeMov) postponed the visit of its driver license mobile unit programmed for last Monday in Chapala on short notice, leaving several hundred unhappy applicants up a creek without a paddle.
While most families connected to the allegations of sexual abuse at a local kindergarten have been reluctant to talk to the press, the parent of one child has been willing to speak out on details of the incidents that led to the lodging of criminal complaints and subsequent events.
