General News

Two natives of Lake Chapala northshore communities were among the ten distinguished women honored during a session of the Jalisco State Congress Tuesday, March 8, in commemoration of International Women’s Day.

“Food poverty in Lakeside communities and what is being done to address it” will be the featured topic at the Open Circle meeting scheduled for Sunday, March 6, 10:30 a.m., at the Lake Chapala Society (LCS).

While most lakeside residents have followed the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine through news media in the comfort of home, one amongst us embarked on a long journey to offer moral and spiritual support to thousands of people who have fled their homeland for safety and survival.

Chapala Mayor Alejandro Aguirre has announced that the state government has given a green light for a major renovation of Avenida Madero, the municipal seat’s principal thoroughfare.

The Chapala government is calling for the dismissal of Ajijic Pueblo Mágico Committee President Alejandro Sahagún, after he was publicly exposed engaging in an ugly confrontation with a female expatriate resident on Friday, March 4.

After weathering pandemic-related restrictions on traditional festivities for the past two years, Lakeside inhabitants threw caution to the wind to celebrate Carnaval, Mexico’s habitual version of Mardi Gras.

Tails of Mexico, an animal advocacy group based in the municipality of Jocotepec, organized Ajijic’s first free spay and neuter clinic for household pets, on Sunday, February 27 on the grounds of the Cetac technical prep school in La Floresta.

Gloria Perales (left), head of the international relations desk for the Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos municipal government, was in charge of arrangements for the visit of Canadian Consul Lewis Coughlin.