The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
In a case of history repeating itself, thousands of dead fish appeared last weekend in Lake Cajititlan, the small body of water located in the municipality of Tlajomulco midway between Guadalajara and Chapala, and often referred to as Lake Chapala’s younger sibling.
Mazamitla Mayor Jorge Magaña has canceled all September 15 and 16 independence festivities in the Jalisco tourist town following several recent violent incidents involving rival criminal gangs.
On February 23, 1983, after the Royal Yacht Britannia drew up in the port of Puerto Vallarta, Queen Elizabeth II walked down the gangway to be greeted by President Miguel de la Madrid, Vallarta Mayor Jorge Leobardo Lepe García and Jalisco Governor Flavio Romero Velasco.
Despite disagreeing with Mexico’s president on the role of the armed forces in the country’s law enforcement strategy, Jalisco Governor Enrique Alfaro vowed to “close ranks” with federal authorities and “not be distracted by the political debate,” in order to preserve “a fluid coordination” between the different levels of governments, and maintain law and order in the state.
After an 11-year pause due to a slew of legal challenges, work restarted on the Zapotillo Dam in northern Jalisco last weekend, a move that many hope signals “the beginning of the end” to Guadalajara’s chronic water shortages.
A judge has ruled that Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartel leaders of the 1980s, can be freed from prison to serve out the remainder of his 40-year sentence in home confinement.
While inhabitants lament seeing absolutely no progress to enhance Ajijic’s status as a Pueblo Mágico destination, Chapala tourism Director Griselda Alcántar reports that representatives of the municipal government and the Magic Town Citizen’s Committee are actively involved in a series of workshops organized by the state government to analyze current problems and hash out strategies for the future.
A shipment of 147,000 doses of the Chinese-manufactured CanSino Covid-19 vaccine sent to Jalisco last week is being made available to unvaccinated adults aged over 18 or anyone who has not yet had a booster shot.
Predictably, International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, Tuesday, August 31, was marked in contrasting ways by families of missing persons in Jalisco and the government that runs this state.
