General News

June 1 marked exactly one year since the first confirmed case of Covid-19 was registered in the municipality of Chapala, coming almost three months after state health authorities detected the spread of the viral disease in Jalisco.

Each year, the month of June is called LGBTIQ+ Pride Month, in commemoration of the struggle for the rights of people of sexual diversity, taking as a banner the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969.

Those Chapala area residents who had expressed concern over the efficacy of the Sinovac Covid vaccine may be relieved by the recent decision taken by the World Health Organization to approve the Chinese-made shot for emergency use for people over 18.

Just as the renovation of the Ajijic plaza’s north corridor appeared to nearing conclusion, village residents have begun raising their voices over a variety of concerns and apparent blunders in the project.

The first round of inoculations against the SARS-CoV-2 virus were administered to persons 50 to 59 years old and pregnant women age 18 and up past nine weeks of gestation, at various lakeshore locations this week, starting Monday, May 31.

Despite a valiant effort, Chapala fell to Cihuatlán in the final match of the 2021 Copa Jalisco amateur soccer tournament.

Casa Cem, a fixture on Guadalajara’s Avenida Chapultepec since 2009 and founded two years earlier by a determined individual, Sofia Chavez, in Colonia Seattle, has re-launched its centro de acopio, which accepts a wide range of recyclable materials, after closing it for many months in response to the Covid pandemic.

Nearly six months after Ajijic was granted status as Jalisco’s ninth Pueblo Mágico, the state Tourism Department (Setujal) has launched the process of forming local citizens into a committee that will play a key role in overseeing programs and projects to spur the balanced development of the town as a high-profile tourist destination.