The overturned patrol car lies on the road.
Editorial staff. – In the early morning of May 19, a drunk driver crashed into and overturned a patrol car of the Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos Police Department. The police vehicle was parked on the highway while officers controlled traffic following a prior collision on the Guadalajara-Jocotepec highway near the intersection with La Barca highway
After a report of the original collision, authorities went to the scene to find a woman who was pinned inside her truck. She reported that a runaway trailer had hit her, destroying the front passenger side of the truck. The woman was traveling alone.
Because a highway lane was reduced, municipal police officers placed a patrol car behind the accident to alert motorists, but an intoxicated man in a RAM pickup truck hit the patrol car and overturned it. No security personnel were injured, but the drunken driver sustained injuries requiring medical attention.
Translated by Mags Petel
The mayor of Chapala, Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel, accompanied by municipal officials and elements of Civil Protection and Chapala Firefighters.
Editorial Staff.- Real estate developers who improperly diverted streams were largely to blame for major landslides in Chapala riverbeds last October, an investigation has confirmed.
The results of a diagnosis by the State Civil Protection Unit of the State of Jalisco (UEPCBJ) showed that the diversions had greatly reduced the natural width of the channels.
The diagnosis was revealed during a session of the Municipal Council of Civil Protection of the Municipality on Thursday, May 19.
State director Roldán Guerrero said the narrowing of the channels threatened the sustainability of the fragile micro-basin in the municipality. He argued against any type of construction that puts the population at risk.
The municipal president of Chapala, Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel, said that since his administration began, no real estate development had been approved.
He added that collaboration between all parties involved in future developments would be of the utmost importance to guarantee the security of residents.
The director of Civil Protection and Firefighters of Chapala, Lorenzo Antonio Salazar, reported that maintenance and conservation of riverbeds in federal zones had begun.
He said the work consists of cleaning streams in the municipality, starting in the Ajijic delegation since that was where the greater number of obstructions in the channels was detected.
He said that 30 percent of the work had been done, using machinery from the municipality and involving personnel from Public Works, General Services, Public Cleaning and Parks and Gardens.
The municipal director cited a previous lack of maintenance as a problem, with channels becoming obstructed by branches, trunks, earth and stones.
The rainy and tropical cyclone season began on May 15 and is expected to end on November 30.
Translated by Alan Ferguson
Jalisco Cup ball. Photo: Semanario Laguna.
Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).- The Chapala Women’s National soccer team suffered a crushing defeat against Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos last weekend, with a 5-0 loss in round 4 of the Jalisco Cup.
The Chapala team has only six points in total; out of four games played they have won two and lost two. They have nine goals for and nine goals against, which places them in third place in the general table of Group 5 Southeast.
Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos leads the tourney after the fourth day, with wins in two of three games, their total goals amount to 15 in favor and only three against.
Manzanilla de La Paz deposed Chapala from its second place position, with three games played and all won, and 13 goals in favor and three against, which results in a difference of 10 goals and nine points in tota.
With five teams in the Southeast group, Chapala will have an off day next matchday. It won’t be until the sixth matchday that Chapala will have the opportunity to recover the points needed to qualify for the round of 16.
Chapala’s next leg will be the second match against Mazamitla, this time as visitors, at noon on Sunday, May 29 at the Unidad Deportiva de Mazamitla.
Each match is known as a «leg.» The group winners host the second leg in the round of 16. The team that scores more goals over the two legs advances to the next round. If the aggregate score is tied the away-goals rule is applied. Therefore, the club that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances.
Translated by MaryAnne Marble
Martha Alcaraz at the moment she received the «Manuel Altamirano» award from the Ministry of Public Education. Photo: Courtesy.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía (Jocotepec).- A teacher from Jocotepec received state recognition for her more than 40 years of service in education.
Martha Yolanda Alcaraz Ramírez, the coordinator of preschool education for the municipality of Jocotepec, received the «Ignacio Manuel Altamirano» award from the Federal Education System last Sunday, May 15, during the commemoration of Teacher’s Day.
The award was presented to her by the Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, and the head of the Jalisco Ministry of Education (SEJ). A total of 1,341 teachers statewide were recognized at the event for having more than 40 years of service.
Alcaraz Ramírez, who assumed the position of coordinator in 1989, said she was pleased with the work that has been done in the municipality at the preschool level, and she appreciated the recognition of her long career as an educator, as well as all the other teachers in the state.
«I want to extend special recognition to all the educators who work to overcome all the problems that have arisen, especially in these times of pandemic,» she said.
In closing, Alcaraz Ramírez told attendees that at 59 years of age, she still has a lot of energy to continue with such important work and that although she is eligible to retire, she assured them that «as long as the body is willing,» she will continue to work in the classroom.
The «Ignacio Manuel Altamirano» award, given to teachers with more than 40 years of service, consists of a gold medal, remuneration and a letter of recognition signed by the President of the Republic.
Translated by Rebecca Zittle
The change is due to the decrease in population in the ZMG and growth in municipalities of Jalisco outside of the ZMG . Photo: Internet.
Editorial Staff.- The new district map proposed by the National Electoral Institute (INE) for the Lake Chapala region for 2022 proposes the division of the municipalities bordering Lake Chapala into electoral districts two, four and eight. The proposal is a result of the decrease of the population in districts of the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara (ZMG) and the growth of municipalities such as Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos. Jalisco will still have 20 state and federal districts.
Chapala would be located in district two along with Jocotepec, Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos, Poncitlán, Ocotlán, Zacoalco de Torres, Acatlán de Juárez and Villa Corona.
District four would consist of Jamay, La Barca, Degollado, Atotonilco el Alto, Ayotlán, Jesús María, San Diego de Alejandría, San Julián, San Miguel el Alto, Jalostotitlán and Arandas.
District eight will be made up of Tototlán, Zapotlán del Rey, Tepatitlán, Ixtlahuacán del Río, Zapotlanejo, Acatic, Yahualica de González Gallo, Mexticacán, Valle de Guadalupe, San Ignacio Cerro Gordo and Juanacatlán.
The proposal was delivered to the political parties accredited in the Surveillance Commissions and the local Electoral Institutes for their analysis and observations, which will be submitted for the consideration of the General Council of INE.
The project began in 2021 and will conclude in 2023 prior to the 2023-2024 electoral period.
Translated by Elisabeth Shields
Reforestation of the streets of Jocotepec. Photo: Internet.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía (Jocotepec).- The Jocotepec City Hall will start a comprehensive reforestation campaign, to introduce national endemic trees as well as other trees that are not properly from the region, but are not cataloged as «harmful» in order to generate a «good vibe, a good image and improve the climate,» said José Miguel Gómez López, municipal president.
The agencies in charge of the project will be Padrón y Licencias, Ecología y Protección al Medio Ambiente, Reconstrucción del Tejido Social and Imagen Urbana, who will go to different places, such as homes and businesses, to invite people to join the reforestation.
The mayor said that the objective will be to plant more than 100 3-meter trees that have a better chance of surviving in the reforestation campaign.
Translated by Nita Rudy
During the River Plate Classic, the player with shirt number 10 is ‘El Ratón’ Alfredo Amezcua Arellano. Photo: Jazmín Stengel.
Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).- One more victory. The Chapala Selection maintains its undefeated leadership and will advance to the round of 16 of the Jalisco Cup in the first place of on the board, after defeating the Mazamitla Selection with 3 goals to 0 as visitors, adding two more points to their record, during the sixth matchday.
The first goal was scored by number 17 Ricardo ‘El Rika’ Vázquez Beltrán when he received a serve in a long shot by ‘El Ratón’, Alfredo Amezcua Arellano in the 13th minute, at the beginning of the first half.
In the 27th minute, Carlos Corona Mercado (shirt number 15) took advantage of a rebound from a free kick to put the ball into the back of the net, making the score 2-0.
The third goal was scored by number 13 Carlos Amador Uribe when he saved a shot against the crossbar by ‘El Ratón’ Alfredo Amezcua Arellano with his head, in the 40th minute of the second half.
In the overall standings, Chapala secures its qualification to the round of16, and so far is the undefeated leader of table 5 Southeast, with five matches played, only one tied, 13 goals scored and only two against with a goal difference of 11 goals and 14 points in total.
Concepción de Buenos Aires is in second place with six games played, three won and lost, three with only five goals for and eight against, which makes a difference of minus three goals and 9 points in total.
The neighboring municipality of Jocotepec, in third place, is fighting for qualification to the round of 16, with five games played, of which they have won three, lost one and tied one. They have 6 goals for and two against, which makes a difference of 4 goals and 10 points in total.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
Mexican Army: Photo: Internet.
Editorial Staff.- The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced on May 13 that, due to the recent violent events in different municipalities, there are more than 12 thousand federal soldiers in Jalisco.
Following the wave of violence in some municipalities of Jalisco such as Jocotepec, Tamazula, La Manzanilla de la Paz, Mazamitla and Puerto Vallarta, 12,362 military and National Guard soldiers are guarding the state.
6,410 are members of the Army and the Air Force, 5,512 are members of the National Guard, and another 440 come from the Secretariat of the Navy «to guarantee the peace and tranquility of the inhabitants of the State,» stated AMLO in the meeting held in Zapotlanejo.
Translated by Paul Weeks
At 89 years old, Dominga Larios, the operator of the first telephone line in San Cristóbal Zapotitlán, keeps alive the memories of her great challenge.
By: María del Refugio Reynozo Medina
The women of her day were mostly dedicated to washing and ironing the clothes of the men of the house; also to cooking. «Sometimes I would finish a load of firewood in one of my dad’s and my brothers’ ironing.» In those days when there was no electricity in San Cristóbal Zapotitlán, the irons were made of iron and heated by fire.
Dominga Larios Díaz not only faced loads of clothes to wash and iron; she also defied her fears and became the first woman to operate the first telephone line in town, to establish communication with the outside world.
It was the priest Pedro Rivera Chávez who entrusted her with this responsibility and told her, “I have talked to the people in Mexico and yes, they are going to bring us the telephone.»
Dominga was afraid, but she knew that she had to obey the priest’s wishes.
“You are not going to have ears,» said the parish priest. Referring to the necessary discretion in having access to other people’s conversations.
«Letters are closed, telegrams too, but the telephone is a living thing, be very careful with your mouth.»
Father Pedro told her that he had received an offer to place it in Carmen Mosqueda’s store, but he did not want to because many people came and went to the store, and it would be difficult to maintain communication with the necessary privacy.
Minga, as she was affectionately called, was chosen to guard the telephone booth that would allow San Cristobal to communicate with the world. The arrival of this communication network placed the town on the stage along with many towns in Jalisco.
Her responsibility, besides sending and receiving the messages, consisted of going to the homes to let them know they had a call and traveling to Tizapán every month to deliver the reports and the money for the operations carried out to an office.
“I had never left town before then, but I would walk to the crossroads to wait for the bus that would take me to Tizapán.»
Everything was new to her; the operation of the network, the writing of the reports and the necessary trips out of the community where she had always stayed. In the office she met with the operators of other communication booths, they were all men.
She remembers when there was an inauguration; that day, many important people from Guadalajara and Mexico City came to San Cristóbal, and there was much jubilation in the town.
Although Dominga did not have a fixed salary, only what she could be given on a monthly basis, she always kept in mind Father Rivera’s command, mouth shut and ears absent. Even when on one occasion a groom from the United States communicated with the bride from San Cristóbal and in the middle of the wedding the other groom from San Cristóbal appeared on the scene. Minga had to hide the bride in the phone booth.
Deep in her memories, Dominga remembers the booth, it was a wooden structure where one person could fit, inside was the device with keys and a crank to make the dials.
Some people remember that she used to wind it up, while she would say okay, okay. She would call a switchboard so that from there she would be connected to the number she requested. The telephone was made of metal, big and heavy. The ringing of the phone was so loud that it could be heard all the way to the school that was almost a block away from her house.
The room where the phone booth was located was always clean, there was a large wooden bench, and around it were pots of green leaves.
-Jocotepec-
He repeatedly pronounced, to call the addressees.
-San Miguel Cuyutlán.
-Guadalajara-
Dominga’s house not only housed the first communication system; it was also the cradle of musicians. Her father Justino Larios, a town musician who learned to play more than three instruments, thanks to a priest from San Juan Cosalá, founded a band of more than twenty members. The students were very young, some children and teenagers, they even fell asleep at the end of the class, at night and thus asleep, Justino took them to his home. The largest room of the Larios’ house became a party after every rehearsal night, where the stage was set to music with waltzes and paso-doble dances. Musicians Silviano Reynoso and Martín Reynoso were his disciples.
Justino was also the teacher of his sons Fermín and Heriberto Larios. Heriberto, was almost a child when Justino was asked to be a trombonist, at the age of eleven, Heriberto was already playing trombone and clarinet. His father sent him with the musicians for the novenario 9-day religious event in Tala, Jalisco.
“They are taking my boy,» his mother would exclaim, preparing his clothes for the stay. As the days went by, she wondered, «How is my boy doing?”
Upon her return, Dominga recalls that Heriberto arrived bringing her mother a birote, a bread roll, from the plant.
“What a beautiful son,» said Petra with emotion. With the memory of that scene, Minga shed a tear.
In the midst of a sea of emotions, Dominga continues telling her story.
“Will you invite me to sit next to you?» I said to say goodbye.
“Will you buy me a drink or shall I buy you a drink,» she says smiling before I sit next to her on the edge of the bed.
At 89 years old, Minga lives from her memories in her neat bedroom accompanied by prayer books; the discreet operator who learned to forget names but to remember the stories that wove her youthful days.
Translated by Kerry Watson
Singer, soloist and actor Marco Leon will perform May 25th at the inauguration of the 2022 Terra Games at the Terranova Institute.
There will also be a meet and greet, a post-show meeting with the popular Tapatío. Famous for his song ‘Bonito’ he promises to start the performance with his biggest hit as a treat for fans.
After that, fans will be able to attend a meet-and-greet to take souvenir photos, get autographs, or just meet a favorite performer.
Translated by Amy Esperanto
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