General News

Patriotic party time has arrived, with loads of lively events happening over the next few days wherever you go in the Lake Chapala area.

Jalisco immigration chief Ricardo Vera Lira this week named a new head officer for Chapala INM services in the first major staff shake-up since the permanent lakeside branch office opened its doors in April 2011.

Drawn by an intense stench of death, a pair of local field hands discovered the badly decomposed body of a man while they  were cutting down brush on the hillside above the Chapala-Ajijic Libramiento early Wednesday, September 11.

Gloria Judith Maldonado Rojas, glamorous Jalisco delegate for the federal Ministry of Social Development (Sedesol), was greeted by a full house of women and children when she arrived at Chapala’s DIF family service center on Wednesday, August 28.

Chapala’s Municipal Council on Public Security was formally constituted Tuesday, September 10 with Mayor Joaquin Huerta presiding.

Ramon del Arco Haro has been bumped up from his position as acting commander of the Chapala police department to become the formally titled director of public security.

Chapala Mayor Joaquin Huerta will deliver his first state of the municipality address during a formal session of the city council to be held Saturday, September 14, 11 a.m., at the Auditorio de la Ribera, La Floresta. The Informe de Gobierno event is open to the public.

Chapala’s Simapa water and sewage service agency is under new management with the designation of Timoteo Aldana Perez as general director.