The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Several Lake Chapala area clubs and organizations have put together Fourth of July celebrations.
Barely two weeks into the 2013 rainy season, Lake Chapala is beginning to show moderate signs of recovery.
Foreigners who want to avoid hassles with Lakeside area traffic police should be careful to obey the rules of the road, keep all essential permits and paperwork up to date and carry original documents whenever they get behind the wheel.
Charlie Klestadt may be laid up in a hospital bed, but that’s not stopping the dedicated Cruz Roja Chapala volunteer from hustling for his favorite lakeside charity.
Like Gerald Specht (left), dozens of expat residents contributed various types of plants and trees to the Ajijic Plant-In campaign coordinated by Harry Bublin (right), head honcho of town administrator Hector España’s expat advisory committee.
Chapala’s Instituto Tecnologico Superior (ITS) is undergoing a change of management with Gerardo Fabian Pantoja Ramirez taking charge as the institution’s general director.
Prominent Jocotepec businessman Heriberto Ibarra Galvez died in a Guadalajara hospital on the evening of Tuesday, June 18, while undergoing treatment for a gunshot wound to the head sustained during a botched a kidnapping that occurred earlier in the day.
In response to the public controversy over Chapala’s paid parking zone, Comers S.A. de C.V. executive director Francisco Espinoza de los Monteros called a press conference last week to explain the operating company’s point of view, asserting that Mayor Joaquin Huerta has opted for a political posture that caters to the whims of a small segment of the populace rather than looking at the system’s financial and social benefits.
A well-attended Fiesta Mexicana held June 15 at the Ajijic plaza pulled in around 20,000 pesos that will go towards the bronze casting of a work of art donated to Ajijic by renowned Mexican sculptor Miguel Miramontes.
