The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Alerted by a citizen report on Monday, October 19, agents of Chapala’s traffic department found an abandoned Toyota van parked on an isolated dirt road located off the Libramiento bypass near the local Instituto Tecnológico Mario Molina.
Chapala police officers apprehended a local man accused of destroying 18 young trees planted in the barriers bordering the Carretera cycling path, reported in the early hours of Thursday, October 15.
The Ajijic recycling program is gradually cranking up operations on a limited scale following temporary suspension of some services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The seven suspects rounded up in Ajijic in an October 7 sting will be processed for prosecution on charges of drug dealing and possession of illegal weapons, the Jalisco’s Attorney General’s Office (Fiscalia or FGE) says.
Personnel assigned to Chapala’s regulations department are beefing up inspections of local businesses to detect violations of Covid-19 infection safeguards.
Bikers from Guadalajara joined up for a group ride to Chapala Sunday, October 18.
Covid-19 is striking another blow to the Chapala area’s most cherished cultural happenings. The annual Fiesta Purépecha, normally held in Ajijic around mid-December, has been cancelled.
To counteract risks to public health due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chapala government will prohibit entry to all local cemeteries on Monday, November 2, Mexico’s Día de Muertos.
Dozens of topes (speed bumps) that once riddled the Chapala-Jocotepec highway were eliminated when the roadway was resurfaced earlier this year.
