The call from Poco a Poco came late in the morning with good news: they’d found another oxygenator machine and would rush it to San Pedro that afternoon.

Even with a roomful of expectant, older faces turned her way, Democrats Abroad (DA) international chair Candice Kerestan, a 30-something who had flown from Bonn, Germany, to Guadalajara Friday to speak to DA members from all of Mexico, did not lose her quiet eloquence.

The Latin American journalist Eduardo Galeano once wrote, “History never says good-bye, it only says, see you later.”

The Romans coined the phrase “Omne vivum ex ovo” (All life comes from an egg).

Residents and visitors in nine North American cities (eight in the United States and one in Canada) are getting the chance over the next few months to immerse themselves in the life and work of iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo through a state-of-the-art, digitally animated light show.

When the promoters of “Nightmare Alley” describe it as neo-noir, they are not lying.