The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
When the ladies gather at the Chapala Country Club at Vista del Lago on March 9 for Ajijic Rotary Club’s 2013 International Women’s Golf Classic they’ll be excited to meet well-known Mexican professionals Shanti Granada and Alejandra Martin del Campo.
A few of the passengers on the tour bus that crashed on its way back to Ajijic from Puerto Vallarta on February 22 have questioned tour operator Viajes Ajijic about its follow up response, although the well-known local travel agency says it has gone out of its way to help passengers, both those injured and the non-injured.
Taxi drivers assigned to the Guadalajara Airport have denied suggestions that they frequently drive over the speed limit on their way to and from Guadalajara and Lake Chapala.
The Chapala police department and the Ministerio Publico (district attorney’s office) have noted a significant decline in reports of home burglaries over the past month.
The Chapala teenager accused of fatally stabbing his older brother during a February 9 family dispute is now in the custody of juvenile justice authorities, facing prosecution for parricide.
Bentley Main, the elderly U.S. citizen resident who was stabbed and beaten in brutal attack during a presumed robbery at his Riberas del Pilar home, died Tuesday night in Guadalajara’s Hospital Civil.
Ajijic’s new town administrator Hector España has launched his term by inviting native villagers and expat settlers to sit on an advisory board that will guide him in shaping an agenda for immediate improvements and long-term projects under the slogan “Somos Comunidad – We are Community.”
Smack in the middle of the Guadalajara’s International Film Festival, Ajijic became the stage for a cinematic coup with the Mexico premiere of “16 Acres,” the newly released documentary tracing the thorny reconstruction of New York’s World Trade Center (WTC) following the devastating terrorist attack of September 11, 2001.
With a weekend of perfect weather and all the sweat and tears of a huge band of volunteers, the 35th Mexican National Chili Cookoff was a whopping success, drawing more than 8,000 visitors to the Tobolandia water park fairgrounds.
