The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Instituto Internacional Octavio Paz (IIOP) has become the first lakeside learning institution to qualify for the International Baccalaureate (IB) World School network, with authorization to offer the IB Diploma Programme for the next term within its bilingual or Spanish-only high school level curricula.
Managing garbage is an expensive business for the municipality of Chapala. City hall ecology chief Moctezuma Medina Corona says it costs the government about 17,000 pesos to collect and dispose of 60 tons of refuse – an average of 1.3 kilograms per person –each and every day.
Oaxacan weavers Lucio and Antonieta Ruiz will station a temporary workshop at the Ajijic plaza from Wednesday, April 16 through Sunday, April 20 to demonstrate the labor intensive handiwork involved in creating a traditional Zapotec tapete (rug).
The Jalisco Water Commission (CEA) has emitted a gloomy forecast for Lake Chapala, predicting that it will shrivel over the next two years until the water level plunges to close to the record low marks of 1955 and 2002.
A group of 39 San Juan Cosalá children were treated to a first-ever trip to the Guadalajara Zoo.
Experience Ajijic village life of yesteryear at the Jamaica del Pasado, a traditional fair set for Sunday, April 13, 4 to 11 p.m., at the central plaza.
Pedro Garcia Aguilar, the new head man at the Lake Chapala area’s division of the Secretaría de Movilidad, comes to his job with clear leadership goals.
A sign that kayaking is becoming the hip and trendy aquatic sport at Lake Chapala is the second annual mass paddling excursion programmed for Sunday, April 13.
Personnel from the Chapala Ministerio Público (district attorney’s office) and the human rights division of Jalisco’s Fiscalia General del Estado (FGE) set up for business at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS) campus on Tuesday, April 1, making good on the recent pledges of Governor Aristótoles Sandoval and Attorney General Luis Carlos Nájera to enhance service to local expatriates who become the victims of crime.
