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Truck with a report of robbery with violence

Staff. A person driving a stolen truck and triggering a police chase was arrested in Jocotepec. The incident was reported on April 16, on the Jocotepec-Chapala highway. 

After the authorities received a complaint from a citizen alerting them of a pickup truck driving in an unusual manner, the municipal officers stopped a late model sand-colored Ford Explorer, but the driver chose to try to escape from the uniformed officers, unleashing a chase. 

Subject secured by authorities.

The driver entered the town of Chantepec, in order to elude the police who followed him, but his attempt was futile, and he was captured in that town. Upon reviewing the documents, the authorities realized that a report of robbery with violence had been filed on the vehicle.

Translated by Sydney Metrick

 A motorist captured the incident while driving on the road. 

Two people died after being shot several times on the Morelia-Guadalajara highway, near the Jocotepec beltway. The events occurred during the afternoon of Sunday, April 17.

Minutes before 5:00 p.m., the State Police received a report of a confrontation between civilians just before the highway junction with Potrerillos, Jocotepec. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers found a man inside a Nissan Urvan, but he was unconscious and had been shot, while another man lay lifeless on the asphalt of the road.

The white pick-up truck in which the deceased were apparently being transported had several bullet holes, but the assailants are unaccounted for. The authorities have not mentioned how the crime occurred or whether the deceased were armed. It is only known that the assailants fled in a gray Mazda and a white pick-up truck. The incident occurred near the National Guard base.

Translated by Rebecca Zittle

Uno de los vehículos asegurados por la Policía del Estado en el municipio de Tuxcueca. Foto: Cortesía.

Redacción.- Un hombre sin vida y al menos cinco vehículos con impacto de bala fueron asegurados por elementos de la policía del Estado de Jalisco luego de un enfrentamiento acontecido durante la madrugada del 23 de abril, en el municipio de Tuxcueca.

El enfrentamiento que ocurrió alrededor de las 02:20 en la calle Azucena al cruce con Madero, dejó a una persona sin vida, la cual fue encontrada atada de manos y con varios impactos de bala, en el interior de una finca que tenía la cortina metálica de la cochera abierta.

En el interior de la finca, cuya fachada contaba con impactos de bala fue asegurada una camioneta Kia Sportage, color gris con placas de Jalisco, mientras en el exterior del domicilio había varios casquillos percutidos de diferentes armas y calibres.

Una motocicleta de bajo cilindraje, una camioneta RAV 4, sin placas y con reporte de robo del 2019; una camioneta Vitara, color gris, con placas de Oaxaca y una camioneta Chevy Van, color blanco con matrícula del Estado de México, también fueron asegurados, todos con impactos de bala. 

Resultado de la investigación epidemiológica, se han detectado nueve contactos en familiares y 45 contactos de las unidades médicas donde se dio atención al paciente.

Redacción.- Debido a la mordedura de un murciélago, un hombre de 41 años, residente del municipio de El Salto, Jalisco, falleció el pasado 18 de abril por rabia; tras varios años sin registrarse casos en humanos.

El 14 de abril de 2022, el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social  (IMSS) notificó un caso de rabia en humano en el estado. Un paciente que el pasado mes de enero sufrió la mordida por murciélago en la mano derecha; la agresión ocurrió en el municipio de Chapala.

Las autoridades de Salud del estado de Jalisco procedieron de inmediato a realizar las acciones de vigilancia e identificación de contactos de riesgo; así como al tratamiento preventivo a los contactos del paciente. En las acciones participó el  Centro Nacional de Programas Preventivos y Control de Enfermedades (CENAPRECE) en la investigación de trazabilidad que fue presentada este viernes.

Fue hasta el 9 de abril de 2022 que el paciente acudió a revisión médica a la clínica 180 del IMSS, tras automedicarse con analgésicos por dolor en el brazo de la mordedura. El 13 de abril es llevado a urgencias del Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente del IMSS, donde fue aislado y se inició esquema de vacunación antirrábica.

Sin mejoría, el día 18 de abril a las 06:55 hrs. el paciente falleció. La muestra se procesó en el Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Pública de Jalisco (LESP) emitiendo un resultado positivo a rabia, esta muestra también se envió al INDRE para la identificación de la variante del virus rábico.

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Resultado de la investigación epidemiológica, se han detectado nueve contactos en familiares y 45 contactos de las unidades médicas donde se dio atención al paciente a quienes se les proporcionó esquema de vacunación antirrábica por considerarse contactos de riesgo.

Three vehicles were involved.

Staff. – Once again there was a vehicle collision on the Chapala-Jocotepec highway, at its intersection the Ajijic libramiento. Three vehicles were involved. The accident occurred on the evening of April 10.  

The point has become the scene of several accidents.

The collision occurred when a white car cut into traffic in front of a NP 300 pickup truck, generating a collision and projecting the truck towards a Tida car that was traveling towards Chapala.  

No one was injured in the accident, but it did complicate the traffic flow at a point that on Sundays  has a heavy influx of vehicles in the afternoon. The point is known for frequent  road accidents and was redesigned a year ago by the Government of Jalisco.

The truck was left with front end damage 

Laguna staff.-  A late model blue Ford Explorer pickup truck crashed into the traffic circle located on Gonzalez Gallo Avenue in Chapala, during the night of April 9, leaving the driver with injuries after the mishap occurred. 

The impact of the vehicle with the traffic circle was in an area where a tree abruptly stopped the truck. Municipal Police officers, Civil Protection and Firefighters, Municipal Transit, as well as the Chapala Red Cross arrived at the scene and transported the driver to receive medical attention. 

Translated by Sydney Metrick

 Abraham M., was recently arrested by the Investigative Police; he has already been sentenced to trial. Photo: Prosecutor’s Office. 

Staff.- Abraham M., was indicted on charges of sexually abusing the  minor daughter of his partner in the Sabinos subdivision in the municipality of Ixtlahuacán de los Membrillos. 

The subject allegedly threatened his victim so that she would not tell what happened, telling her that he would murder her mother. For this reason, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the official pre-trial detention against the individual, as a precautionary measure and for the victim’s protection. He was held for a year awaiting trial. The investigation began after a criminal complaint was filed on October 17, 2019. 

The victim was assaulted at approximately10: 30PM   when she  was sleeping in the living room of her home in the municipality of Ixtlahuacán.

After assaulting the victim, Abraham M, who was the partner of the victim’s mother, warned  her ot to tell what had happened, otherwise he would murder her mother. Out of fear, the minor kept silent for a while; however, she told her mother and  they filed a criminal complaint.

The Regional Prosecutor’s Office of District V carried out the investigation as a gender crime and found enough evidence of criminal child sexual abuse that an arrest warrant was requested against Abraham M.

The subject was recently captured by members of the Investigation Police, who served the warrant and presented him before the Control Judge who, considering the evidence provided by the Public Prosecutor’s Office to be ample, sent him to trial.

Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan

Chain-link fence located near the pumping plant being removed for the second time. Photo: Sofía Medeles.

Sofía Medeles (Ajijic).- Pueblos Unidos de la Ribera activists removed a chain-link fence  for the second time they claim had been placed in federal territory of Lake Chapala. 

The  action  took place last Friday, April 8, in the area that had been allegedly illegally fenced near the re-pumping plant of the Municipal Potable Water and Sewage System (SIMAPA), to the east of the town. 

On this occasion, not only was the fence removed, but it was cut up, and  the activists used hammers to destroy the bases where the posts are placed, so that the fence could not be put up again, as happened last time. Although the land owners tried to intimidate them by taking video, the activists were not deterred.

In addition to removing the fence, the bases where the pipes are placed were also cut and covered to prevent it from being put up again. Photo: Sofía Medeles.

At the end of the meeting, there was talk of returning to the beach in the area known as «Tío Domingo», where in August and September last year, at least seven fences were removed. Of all these, five have been rebuilt, and two of the lands allegedly illegally occupied have been planted with crops to justify their takeover by the adjacent landowners. Two of the alleged illegal fences have been rebuilt twice.

Also, two more disputed fences were recently removed to the east of Ajijic, at the end of Donato Guerra Street; in one of these, the owners chose to remove the entire fence and, in the other, they raised it again, however, it was removed again. 

The meetings of the group to act against this type of invasion will be announced through social networks. Members of the «anti-rejas» movement say that the participation of the Ajijitecos and other  interested parties is important, since it is an issue of interest for all the residents of the area around the lake.

Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan

Trucks in the Bajío area, west of Ajijic. File 2021.

Editor. White-collar criminals have set their sights on Chapala to seize land in federal zones, using false deeds and corrupt notaries who use their positions  to issue forged documents with which they try to take over public spaces.  

The Government of Chapala, the Association of Notaries Public of the State of Jalisco and the State Government have called on the population to oppose bad practices of public notaries, after investigating that, in complicity with private individuals, they have falsified documents to take possession of land in federal zones.

The municipal authorities, in coordination with the state authorities, have undertaken a strategy to stop illegal acts by notaries and individuals who try to take possession of land in Chapala. The Dirección General de Delitos Patrimoniales y Financieros de la Fiscalía de Jalisco, has opened investigations into irregularities committed in the municipality. 

Part of a deed, which Jaime Natera López, President of the College of Notaries of Jalisco, qualified as false as it was signed by a notary who was suspended and out of his jurisdiction.

The Notary Association of Jalisco asked for regulations to insure that  those who want to acquire a property, do so based on the law, and  condemning people they labeled as «loafers», who want to take possession of land illegally. The Association vowed it would  not protect any person who tries to do illegal acts. 

«We are not going to overrule  anyone, but we must consider the Registrar who  participates in the appraisals and the public registry of property. I am totally convinced that some of these (fake) deeds can  give legal certainty,» said Jaime Natera Lopez, President of the College of Notaries of Jalisco in a media interview.     

For the last ten years the problem of invasions in the hills and beach areas of Lake Chapala has been growing at an accelerated rate, without any authority trying to put a stop to the invasions.  in many cases illegal the takeovers of property have been facilitated by corruption by private individuals and notaries public.    

Among  the public notaries that are endorsed as legitimate in Lakeside  are: Jorge Chávez, Sergio Macías, Juan Carlos López, Sergio Macías (father), Luis Enrique Ramos, Juan José Rodríguez, Adriana Villaseñor, as well as notaries public from La Barca, Ocotlán, Ayotlán, Tototlán and Atotonilco, on the condition that they are present. The  misuse of  notarial procedure is punishable with two to six years of imprisonment. 

Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan

About 50 merchants protest on Francisco I. Madero avenue after the stall and its merchandise was seized. Credit: Jazmín Stengel.

Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).– Street merchants were evicted, and their merchandise confiscated by the Department of Regulations, Registration and Licenses, near the recently restored area of the Chapala boardwalk. They protested on Francisco I. Madero Avenue, at the intersection with Hidalgo, on Saturday, April 2. 

The Triqui merchants are from Oaxaca. After having been relocated several times in the last month by the authorities (due to restoration of green space, and new urban image policies going into effect) they refused to move again. They had been asked to relocate to the east side of the boardwalk, in the parking lot of the restaurant area known as La Rampa. They were joined by ten other local merchants.

As a result, agents of the Department of Regulations, Registration and Licenses immediately confiscated a street stall on the Chapala boardwalk, using public security personnel; they denounced the Oaxaca Triqui merchants in the area. 

On Monday, April 4, a dialogue was scheduled with the authorities during working hours. Up to that time ten stalls had been allowed to continue working in the locations already registered, since the owners had a valid commercial permit. However, on Saturday, April 2, shortly after noon, inspectors accompanied by public security came to confiscate the merchandise from the first street stall, without having given prior official written notice, according to testimonies of the indigenous merchants. The stall had been there for thirty years.

Merchants and municipal authorities struggled during the seizure of merchandise. Credit: Special.

The agents involved refused to identify themselves, answering «oi este wey (I heard this guy).» As they moved on to other stalls, merchants struggled to defend their product and labor rights. One video of such an interaction went viral on social networks. «They take things away like vile thieves,» said one of the affected merchants on the video. In one of the multiple videos published by the Triqui Merchant Guild of Oaxaca, one can observe the struggle between merchants, officials, and public security. «Three men pulled me,» said a minor involved. A Triqui woman was bruised after the struggle.

The aggressions on both sides escalated when the merchants demanded that a count of the confiscated merchandise be made public. However, the product was taken to City Hall facilities, resulting in a blockade by about fifty protesters at the intersection of Francisco I. Madero Avenue and Hidalgo Avenue. The Triqui Merchant Guild said they are organizing to demand their human rights, labor rights, and the reimbursement of the affected merchandise. They have multiple options including a human rights complaint, a legal claim, or a commercial injunction to avoid being removed and discriminated against.

As of the closing of this edition, the affected parties were attended by the municipal president, and were informed that the count of the merchandise was finished. However, municipal president Alejandro Aguirre asked those present to keep the boardwalk free of street commerce during the upcoming Holy Week and Easter vacations. This does not solve the relocation problem for the indigenous merchants.

Translated by Amy Esperanto