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Chapala sailing school aims to breed champions

The Chapala Yacht Club has been buzzing with activity over the Easter holidays as a select bunch of youngsters takes advantage of their vacation time to pick up the pace of training for Mexico’s 2012 season of major sailing competitions.


Reflections on the Ajijic Passion Play: A conversation with Jesus

Stunning scenery, handsome period costumes and dramatic action provided plenty of visual splendor to captivate the throngs attending the various episodes of the 2012 Ajijic Passion Play.  In each sequence, the eyes of the spectators were constantly drawn to Felipe de Jesus Angulo Marquez playing the lead role of Jesus of Nazareth.

British expatriate unites Chapala kids through soccer

Most retirees would probably balk at the idea of driving a car full of Mexican kids from Ajijic to Guadalajara and back again every weekend, simply to spend an hour barking instructions at them from the touchline of a soccer field.

US doctor highlights financial greed during university talk

Promising to teach her listeners more about the money system “than 90 percent of the people on the planet” know, U.S. medical doctor and author Nancy Banks recently intrigued a small crowd of students and professors at Guadalajara’s Tec de Monterrey by explaining how greed dominates the functioning of international business and banking.

Apps for living, working or traveling south of the border

Smartphones and tablets are the ‘it’ devices of today. They were designed from the ground up with ease of use in mind—hand someone a touch screen and it doesn’t take more than a few minutes for him or her to figure out the basics – but the sheer volume of applications (apps) to sift through can be daunting for the newcomer. Here, we would like to elucidate a few that could turn your new device (or future device) into the perfect, tireless assistant for living, working or traveling in Mexico.

PAN revamps stuttering presidential campaign

Following a series of setbacks, National Action Party (PAN) candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota unveiled a new campaign team and strategy this week in an attempt to reinvigorate her bid to become Mexico’s first female president.