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CFE butchers jacarandas

A crew from the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) may have delivered the death blow to five mature jacarandas in an apparently overzealous tree trimming exercise carried out along Calle La Vista in upper Chula Vista.

Fighting the ‘bite’

The Chapala area has a long history of motorists being squeezed for mordidas by unscrupulous traffic police. And drivers who cave to roadside payoffs are equally guilty of engaging in corruption.

Tizapán police chief killed in ambush

The sinister wave of criminal violence that has rocked Lake Chapala’s south shore over the past several months hit an ominous crest with the June 12 assassination of José Antonio Languren Martìnez, commissar of the Tizapán el Alto police department.