The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Chapala area traffic commandant Hector Magaña Rios has launched a “No Coyotes” campaign after learning that some foreign residents were paying third-party facilitators more than double the cost of fixed fees to obtain Jalisco driver’s permits.
Thousands of lakeshore area inhabitants will mark a milestone in modern day electoral history on Sunday, July 1 as they join the pioneer generation of electronic voters.
According to estimates, as many as two million foreign retirees will make Mexico their home by 2020.
Organizers of the Lakeside Victims’ Fund set up to off-set some of the financial difficulties created when family members of nationals were killed in local violence are delighted by Lakesiders’ generosity.
As of this week, the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (PGEJ) has now officially confirmed the identities of all but two of the 18 people whose dismembered remains were discovered on May 9 in two vehicles abandoned on the outskirts of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos. Additional body parts of the murder victims were found on May 12 concealed inside a freezer at criminal hideout located in Chapala’s Riberas del Pilar residential neighborhood.
Barreling down the final stretch on the 2012 campaign trail, candidates running for the Chapala’s mayor seat will do their best to drum up support during the final series of rallies slated in different localities through Wednesday, June 27.
According to conventional wisdom, the start of the summer rainy season at lakeside coincides with the June 13 Feast of Saint Anthony in San Antonio Tlayacapan.
The Chapala Ministerio Publico (MP) district’s attorney’s office reports an odd string of deaths among elderly foreign residents registered between May 31 and June 6.
In an effort to foil criminals who have taken advantage of the recent climate of fear in the lakeside area to prey on unwary residents, leaders of the Chapala Security Initiative (CSI) and police department chief Reynol Contreras lined up a June 1 orientation session to educate the public on the ins and outs of telephone extortion scams.
