General News

A throng of more than 1,000 children and their parents showed up for the public Christmas party (posada) hosted by the Chapala government on Tuesday, December 16.

Chapala police detained Debra Ann Cuevas Gates, 36, by in the early hours of Tuesday, December 9, as the prime suspect in the fatal stabbing of her aunt, retired Chapala school teacher Maria Eugenia Cuevas Alcantár.

The street rehabilitation project in downtown Ajijic resumed Wednesday, December 10 with the work crew getting down to business on the segment of Calle Colón located between the highway and Zaragoza.

Freshly painted highway markings and new speed limit signs that appeared this week at the bottom end of Libramiento bypass stand as an excellent example of how pro-active citizens and government officials  can work together to resolve local problems.

Catfish raised in Mezcala’s innovative off-shore aquaculture pilot project are free of heavy metal pollutants that are hazardous to human health, according to the findings of a methodical scientific study conducted by experts at Jalisco’s Center for Research and Applied Technology (Ciatej).

Chapala Mayor Joaquín Huerta recently presented three certificates of appreciation to leaders of Ajijic’s Indigenous Community in recognition for the organization’s contributions to the community.

Chapala Mayor Joaquín Huerta announced that online libraries are being installed at seven locations in the municipality in a public education enhancement program funded by the National Council of Science and Technology (Conacyt).

A series of jubilant traditional holiday events dash through the December calendar in villages, towns and cities all across the Republic. Leading the pack is surely the year’s most heart-felt celebrations – the Friday, December 12 Feast of Guadalupe commemorating the 1531 anniversary of the appearance of Guadalupe, the Mother of Mexico on a mountaintop near Mexico City.