Once the leader of a murderous drug cartel in Mexico, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted last month, after a high-profile trial, of running a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related charges.

As Easter and its celebrated miracle approaches, we here at Lakeside also go through a major transformation. In the weather, that is.

If you’re walking along the Chapala or Ajijic malecons and you collapse, or if you fall and break your wrist on a broken sidewalk, or if you suddenly feel an overwhelming nausea, just stop the next Mexican you see for help. These days, there’s a good chance he’s a doctor.

It seems as though everywhere on the planet you look these days, weather patterns are changing, and climates once predictable are suddenly turning on you like a bad drunk.

A few weeks back I wrote about some of the things Mexicans find weird in the United States. I thought it only fair to take the opposite position. So, here are ten things Americans find weird in Mexico.

Might Pancho Villa’s amorality, brutality and narcissism have been the beginning of modern political practice?