General News

Conventional wisdom disproves headlines in both the Guadalajara and foreign press suggesting that violent crime in the Lake Chapala area has caused an expatriate exodus.

To avert a “collective psychosis that affects residents and visitors to Chapala,” Mayor Jesus Cabrera launched a new security initiative against disinformation at Guadalajara’s Congress building on Thursday morning.

More than a dozen conferences on retirement living in Mexico, a variety of cultural and social activities and a commercial expo of products and services geared for seniors are wrapped into the program for the Baby Boomers 50+ Living Show, scheduled for Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9 at the Hotel Real de Chapala, La Floresta.

CSI Chapala reports that Mayor Jesus Cabrera will preside at a public meeting on public security and safety issues Friday, June 1, 6 p.m. at La Vela Plaza, west end of the Chapala Malecon. A representative of Jalisco’s Ministry of Public Security will attend.

While lakeside area expats often complain of harassment by local traffic cops, the tables turned on Chapala’s traffic department (SVT) commandant Hector Magaña Rios, who was recently on the receiving end of vile abuse by an expat motorist.

After a three-year run in service to the public, Lakeside Crime Watch has gone off line.  The website, however, is expected to reappear around June 1 under new management with the same URL, similar content and an updated layout design.

A small but energetic volunteer group is making significant headway in wiping out unsightly graffiti in the heart of Chapala.

Fed up with the recent wave of criminal violence in the area, lakeside inhabitants finally seem to be taking to heart official pleas for citizen collaboration with law enforcement authorities.