Will expats with citizenship show muscle in town elections?
As increasing numbers of foreign nationals who reside in the lakeside area have obtained Mexican citizenship, so have they earned rights to acquire federal voter identification cards entitling them to suffrage. Some local political observers are wondering if that trend might bear some weight in the upcoming public referendum on the naming of town administrators.
According to John Keeling, organizer for the local annual Christmas bird count, the numbers of each species seen was down slightly from the averages of the previous six years.
As Lake Chapala shows signs of a troubling decline, newly appointed general director of the National Water Commission (Conagua) David Korenfeld Federman, and Elias Chedid Abraham, his chief for the Lerma-Santiago-Pacífico region, may be forced to show their professional mettle. Both men boast strong academic backgrounds and administrative experience in water issues.