Three business partners, who also happen to be good friends, have transformed the Ajijic store once known as Marlowe’s Marvelous Market into “Alquimia” – alchemy in English.

Combined with the low cost of living, open-mindedness, welcoming environment and large population of English speakers, it’s no wonder that many practitioners of the spiritual path, A Course in Miracles, are choosing Lakeside as their new home.

Bringing a motley assembly of traditional mariachi youth ensembles to the headquarters of Jalisco’s Secretary of Culture (Edificio Arroniz) was the inaugural event of a festival brought into existence, seemingly, in order to draw a line in the sand between traditional mariachi and the “modern” version, which came into being in the 1930s.

A major health crisis is what motivated Jaime Navarro into organic farming and probiotic beverages.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Tonatiuh Arturo Gomez Arroyo, 45, was born and raised in Venezuela.

In the annals of nephrology, Jalisco holds a dubious distinction: the highest rate of end stage renal disease in Mexico.