General News

The debut performances of a one-man musical based on the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah,” created and performed by Lakeside musician James Twyman, will take place in Ajijic at the end of May and start of June.

Although weather reports predicted a 75 percent probability of precipitation for Saturday, May 14, many Lakeside residents were taken by surprise when an unusually intense rainstorm swept through the Chapala area in the late afternoon.

Chapala’s water and sewage utility Simapa was already dealing with long-standing complaints of deficient service lodged by residents of Las Redes and other customers of the city’s northeast sector when additional troubles cropped up last weekend. 

Danger lurks on Chapala area highways and byways as indicated by the rising number of recent motor vehicle accidents.

Fourteen passengers in a bus transporting personnel from a Jalisco berry farm died after an apparent brake failure caused the vehicle to collide with a wall on the road running between Citala and Tuxcueca, near the southern shore of Lake Chapala Wednesday evening.

Thursday, May 5, Chapala police officers promptly detained a man accused of stealing alms collection boxes from the sacristy of the San Francisco parish church.

The string of commercial stalls located near the edge of the Chapala Malecón are under close scrutiny for safety issues in the aftermath of a fire that broke out in one unit on Friday, May 6. 

Agents of the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office (FGE) detained three alleged members of an organized crime gang during an undercover operation conducted in central Chapala on Tuesday, May 3.