General News

The uptick in home robberies revealed in last week’s edition of the Guadalajara Reporter has lakeside area foreign residents worried that a crime wave may be in progress. It is impossible to gauge whether that is a fact or rather a common wisdom perception of rising insecurity. 

The summer wet season is going strong, bringing seasonal blessings to Lake Chapala.

Part-time lakeside resident Bob Golly, 81, was among the plucky runners competing last Sunday in Ajijic’s 20th anniversary Chupinaya mountain races.

Chapala Mayor Javier Degollado seems to be living up to his government slogan “Rescatar para Transformar” (Rescue to Transform), recently picking up the pace of projects that are changing the face of public spaces in every corner of the community. 

Foreign residents in the Ajijic area have been put on high alert by a rash of recent home burglaries, including at least two home invasions in which victims were held at gunpoint. 

A state-funded program aimed at controlling excessive aquatic weed growth in Lake Chapala is slated to get underway this summer, according to a spokesman for the Intermunicipal Association for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development (Aipromades) 

Homeowners in the lakeside subdivision of Chula Vista declared a minor victory this week after gaining concessions from municipal authorities to provide tactical support in an ongoing battle to keep businesses out of their single-family residential zone.

Ajijic’s double-pronged Chupinaya mountain run is on track for Sunday, July 17 after the promoters surmounted a stumbling block put in their path by the town’s Comunidad Indigena.