A shake-up inside the Chapala police department began with the surprise May 21 resignation of Citizen Protection director Rafael Cervantes Aldana.

The first wave of Chapala area residents who will be employed to build modular homes in Barrhead, Alberta have been instructed to start packing their bags.

Mexico’s Supreme Court has accepted a constitutional challenge filed by the Chapala municipal government to overrule congressional approval of the municipality’s public accounts for 2006.