Diego Quemada-Díez as told to Stephen Woodman

Back in 2002, I was living by the railroad tracks in Mazatlán on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

In 2012, when Australian hypnotherapist Sophia Davis arrived in Guadalajara and pursued learning Spanish, she found herself in familiar territory.

Mexican-American philanthropists from Chicago take a moment during their ceremony at a swanky Guadalajara restaurant last week to urge any dual citizens in the crowd to vote for Hillary Clinton.

The NGO Animal Equality has released an appalling undercover video highlighting the suffering of hens living in a factory farm in Jalisco.

Questions about the handling of professional musical performers by the Jalisco Secretary of Culture and Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra (JPO)  Director Marco Parisotto, simmering for months, have taken on urgency with continuing allegations by musicians of mistreatment, and investigations led by new Congress Deputy Kehila Kú and two independent analysts. 

Women directors are still a rarity in Hollywood.  A new investigation by film industry site the Wrap discovered that two of Hollywood’s major studios, 20th Century Fox and Paramount, have no films by female directors scheduled to come out between now and 2018. 

In Mexico, the situation is decidedly brighter. According to the “Statistical Yearbook of Mexican Cinema,” by 2007, women directed around 10 percent of annual productions. By 2015, this figure had reached 25 percent, almost triple the percentage of women directors in Hollywood.