The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
On March 28, representatives of the Chapala Municipal Government, community leaders, and approximately 70 residents attended an inaugural ceremony to launch a mural honoring the life and legacy of Zara Alexeyewa, widely known as La Rusa.
Chapala will be swept up in a flood of lively music, dazzling movement and brilliant colors on Sunday, April 26, as the city hosts its third annual Monumental Ballet Folklórico spectacle, branded by the state government for the second time as La Fiesta al Estilo Jalisco.
In the story about the new Lake Chapala Society board of directors published in last week’s edition, the name of guest speaker Alison Watts Palmer was inadvertently omitted from the text.
The Primary Care Unit for Older Adults, inaugurated on Thursday, April 16 at Chapala’s Clinica Municipal, is a joint initiative of the local government and the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).
The Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will kick off the installation of an underground cable system in central Ajijic around the end of this month, according to the official announcement presented at a public meeting held on the plaza on Friday, April 10.
The midday meeting was not widely publicized in advance, drawing no more than two dozen village residents, occupying about half of the available audience seats.
After more than 40 years of collaboration with lakeside communities, Guadalajara’s ITESO university has led a formal nomination of Lake Chapala’s biocultural landscape to the World Monuments Watch 2027, a program run by the international non‑profit World Monuments Fund (WMF).
United States Consul General Amy Scanlon in Guadalajara paid a visit to Chapala on Tuesday, April 7, for a cordial meeting with Mayor Alejandro Aguirre to address matters regarding the interests of U.S. citizens residing in the municipality.
A large crowd of demonstrators turned out for a protest against the Autotransportes Guadalajara-Chapala bus company on Sunday, April 19, held at the main depot on Avenida Madero.
The Autotransportes Guadalajara-Chapala bus company announced an immediate hike in fares, which took effect as of Sunday, April 12, sparking widespread condemnation and outrage among its lakeside customer base.
