If you have lived in the United States, especially in Arizona, New Mexico or California, you probably have seen plenty of festivities surrounding the 5th of May, or Cinco de Mayo.

The Easter holiday period, Chapala’s peak tourist season, got off to a rocky start when a group of Malecón food vendors blocked off the city’s main points of entry on the morning of Thursday, April 14, to protest against the local mayor’s initiative to spruce up and unify the image of the waterfront commercial zone.

After looking at 70 impressive, bold paintings done by Hector Navarro over the course of his six decades of artistic trajectory and a 30-year teaching career, it is hard to imagine him having a bad day.

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.”