General News

Complying with a recommendation by the Jalisco Human Rights Commission (CEDHJ), members of the Chapala city council voted in favor of offering a public apology to six residents of Ajijic who complained of being subjected to stigmatization and threats derived from their opposition to the government’s street improvement project in the village center.

“Candidates are chosen by political parties, meaning they tend to be individuals twisted by involvement in a deeply-rooted system who are usually not the most adequate persons to hold office nor to the liking of the average citizen,” laments former Chapala Mayor Raul Robles Puga (1992-95) in reflecting on the 2015 elections.

A huge work crew is laboring furiously to complete the massive reconstruction of Chapala’s Avenida González Gallo by the end of this month.

A man found dead early Monday, June 15 in Riberas del Pilar appears to have been the victim of a freak accident attributed to excessive drinking and bad weather.

A Jocotepec police officer is among four individuals arrested in connection with the brutal murder of a local woman, the apparent victim of a family feud.
Melisa de los Santos Garcia, 20, was found dead in her Jocotepec home on the evening of Wednesday, June 17. Her throat had been slashed and face severely beaten.

With a medical chief now fully certified to practice forensic studies, the one-room morgue installed in a spare room at the Chapala Civil Protection and Fire Department base is finally ready to go into service.

Two men gunned down Monday, June 22 in Chapala’s Tepehua barrio have been identified as Romulado Andres Perez Gomez, 31, and his younger brother Ricardo Perez Gómez, 28.

The crash of a bus that was transporting Walmart employees home from work around 5 a.m. Monday, June 15, left 26 injured passengers.