The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Lakeside community leaders who were invited to attend a luncheon with Governor Aristoteles Sandoval during his August 8 visit took advantage of the occasion to do more than casual glad-handing with the state’s chief executive. They turned it into an opportunity to bend the ear of members of Sandoval’s cabinet, soliciting top-level attention to a variety of pressing local issues.
Ricardo Vera Lira, the newly appointed Guadalajara delegate of the Instituto Nacional de Migracion (INM), was formally introduced to the lakeside community at a public meeting held Thursday, August 22 at the campus of the Instituto Terranova.
During a two-day visit to Guadalajara early this week, United States Ambassador to Mexico E. Anthony Wayne made a quick trip to Ajijic to meet with resident expatriates. The courtesy call with around 100 invited guests took place Monday, August 26 on the grounds of the Lake Chapala Society.
In the aftermath of the recent capture of Kenneth James Stopkotte, a man on the run from U.S. authorities who had holed up in San Juan Cosala, Chapala’s immigration chief Juan Carlos Galvan is anxious to pull out the stops to weed out any other foreign fugitives who may choose lakeside as a hideout spot.
Eleven students received music scholarships totaling 94,500 pesos following auditions held August 15 at the Gonzalez Gallo Cultural Center in Chapala. Nineteen applicants auditioned for the monetary awards.
With the discovery of three bodies dumped at the side of the highway early Monday, August 26, the homicide rate in the Municipality of Jocotepec has taken a steep upward spike over the past month.
A raging fire destroyed the second story living quarters built above a centrally located Ajijic stationery store on the evening of Saturday, August 17. The owner of the property, identified as Maria de Jesus Ramos Romero reportedly sustained first degree burns on her hands and arms while attempting to quell the flames before a neighbor came to her rescue.
A Texas resident with family ties in Ajijic was killed instantly in a single car rollover accident that occurred on the Guadalajara Chapala highway near Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos in the early hours of Thursday, August 22.
Three Anglican clergy from the Lakeside area traveled to Monterrey for the historic first visit of a serving Archbishop of Canterbury to Mexico on August 13 and 14.
