The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Ajijic residents who have been left on hold for the past six weeks will be relieved to learn that Telmex has finally completed an upgrade of its local Internet equipment and resumed business for new Infinity service contracts.
Local dog owners are advised that while a local leash ordinance has yet to be enacted, tourist inspectors on guard at the Chapala and Ajijic waterfront promenades may approach them to request they keep their pets collared and leashed in those areas.
Adan Dominguez Leon, Chapala’s new municipal police chief, has told the Reporter that he hopes to replicate the success he achieved in bringing down the crime rate in the Guadalajara suburb of Tlajomulco, where he served in the same role for two and a half years.
Arlin Herrera, 13, a resident of the Love in Action children’s shelter in Chapala, recently competed at the Copa Mykonos gymnastics competition in Leon.
Two former Chapala police officers have been arrested and charged with the homicide of a Guadalajara taxi driver who went missing last summer.
Scores of residents living in the vicinity of Tobolandia and the low end of the Libramiento bypass are in an uproar over the raucous Festival de Lodo (Mud Fest) held Sunday, December 6 at the Ruta 4x4 off-road park, a new attraction tacked on to the sprawling aquatic complex.
Jalisco’s Ministry of the Environment and Territorial Development (Semadet) has formally opened the Sendero Trojes-Chupinaya-Barranca Travesaño, a 6.5-kilometer hiking trail crossing part of the protected hydrological and forest area situated in the mountain range running above Lake Chapala’s north shore.
Downtown Chapala is all dressed up for the holidays, with a life-size nacimiento (nativity scene) and giant natural Christmas tree adorning the new esplanade outside city hall and the sparkling nighttime lighting illuminating the main avenue and waterfront Malecón.
As of November, the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) started phasing in a monthly billing system in the lakeside area.
