General News

About 30 sign-bearing Americans, some from Ajijic, and the same number of reporters converged on a sidewalk near the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City Thursday afternoon. 

Chapala Mayor Gerardo Degollado may be forced to take a time-out from his post by an order of the Jalisco State Congress aimed at obligating his government to pay off a long overdue labor suit won by a former city hall employee.

What’s one positive thing you could say about the skyrocketing cost of gasoline that hit Mexican consumers at the start of the year?

Full-tilt party time is on the horizon as Chapala and Ajijic warm up for lively Carnaval festivities that build up to a final blowout on Tuesday, February 28, this year’s date for Mardi Gras celebrations around the globe.

As part of initiatives to revamp the municipal police department, the Chapala government is looking to place local cops in charge of traffic control duties currently handled by agents of the state’s Secretaria de Movilidad (Semov).

Initial rehabilitation of Chapala’s Parque de la Cristiania is due for completion around the end this month, city officials report. 

The 39th annual Mexican National Chili Cook-off is up and running this weekend in Ajijic. 

Chapala has scheduled a variety of special activities tied into the 100th Anniversary of Mexico’s Constitution, promulgated on February 5, 1917.