As expected, two African runners won last weekend’s 33rd edition of the Guadalajara Half Marathon.

The Guadalajara chapter of Democrats Abroad will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, February 16. Ed Tasca, a popular humor columnist and published novelist and playwright, will speak “On the Coattails of Lincoln.”

At St. John Cristosomo Roman Catholic Church, the English-speaking group will celebrate Christmas with Mass on Tuesday, December 25, 11 a.m., with Father Miguel Sención and seasonal songs with organ, violin, clarinet and flute accompaniment by a four-member, musical family.

Just in time for the holidays, a life-size nativity scene adorns Plaza Liberation in downtown Guadalajara.

Pioneering Guadalajara forensic scientist Jesús Mario Rivas Souza, who carried out an astonishing 131,974 autopsies between 1953 and 2013, passed away November 27 at his Bugambilias home.He was 92 years old and succumbed to pneumonia.

Thanksgiving dinner is served up Thursday at the American Society (Amsoc).