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Tracing legendary roots of Ajijic’s Sayacos

The origins of the Sayaco and Sayaca dancers who set the tone for Ajijic’s rambunctious Carnaval festivities cannot be pinned down in written historical records. All we know in the present day comes from legends handed down over many generations in the oral accounts of local people.


Guadalajara’s loathsome founding father

Nuño de Guzmán (wearing the brown coat in the ancient codice seen here) founded the first settlement of Guadalajara but is widely regarded as one of the most brutal Spanish conquistadors.

See Ed Asner in his last role as a Holocaust survivor

In “Tiger Within,” Ed Asner plays the full dramatic as Samuel, a lonely Holocaust survivor who begins an unlikely relationship with Casey (Margot Josefohn) a disaffected 14-year-old runaway, turned sex worker who thinks it’s pretty cool to wear a swastika on her leather jacket.