The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Fresh from the National Democratic Convention, Tim Whiting, president of the Lake Chapala Chapter of Democrats Abroad, brought signs, slogans and chants to a raucous meeting at La Nueva Posada last week in a bid to get members fired up for the fall elections.
In his September 12 appearance at the monthly meeting of the Canadian Club of Lake Chapala, regional SVT traffic department commandant Hector Magaña Rios addressed questions from the audience reflecting the most common concerns about regulations for motorists driving foreign-plated cars.
With just two weeks left in office, Chapala Mayor Jesus Cabrera will present his third and final annual report.
Jalisco authorities have detained 12 suspects tied to the La Resistencia crime syndicate who are now under investigation for possible involvement in the mass murder of 18 persons whose mutilated bodies were discovered May 9 on the outskirts of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.
Natives of San Antonio Tlayacapan began raising hell this week after discovering what appears to be a clandestine landfill project encroaching on federal land along Lake Chapala’s shoreline.
The charity Operation Smile Mexico has received a generous donation from the estate of a deceased resident of Ajijic.
Lakeside’s original community-based crime report website was reincarnated this week under new management at the revised URL www.lakechapalacrime.com. The site was revived following the sudden demise of Lakeside Crime Tracker, an alternate site developed after Lakeside Crime Watch folded last May.
While many were still celebrating Independence Day in the early hours of Sunday morning, police on the southern shore of Lake Chapala were called to investigate Mexico’s latest grizzly massacre.
Some 200 supporters turned up to witness the inauguration of the new office of the recently formed Business Association of Ixtlahuacan de los Membrillos.