General News

Art, music, dance, literature and more are wrapped into six weeks of activities programmed for Sincrónico 2, Chapala’s second annual festival of contemporary arts.

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.

Following a series of public meetings held throughout this week to familiarize Ajijic residents with plans to develop a biking path and sidewalks adjacent to the central highway, city hall officials are gearing up to conduct a formal public opinion poll, tentatively scheduled for Sunday, August 19.

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.

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.

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.

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.