The murders of 22-year-old medical student Karla Margarita Pérez Jiménez in Guadalajara, and a Spanish exchange student in Morelos, have ignited a wave of protests, highlighting Mexico’s deepening crisis of violence against women. 

The names of Mexico’s independence heroes roll off the tongue — Hidalgo, Morelos, Allende — evoking images of priests and generals leading revolutionary armies into battle. But behind these men was an equally formidable force of women. These heroines broke the social norms of the 19th century, acting as political masterminds, spies, financiers, battlefield cooks and nurses, and even commanders. Without them, the revolution might have petered out before it even began.

On a Sunday morning when Avenida Juárez was closed to cars but humming with bicycles, skateboards, roller skates and running shoes, one tented corner of Parque Rojo invited passersby to consider something most take for granted: breathing.

What does an immigration lawyer do when a client’s most urgent problem isn’t immigration law, but insulin?

That was one of the questions confronting Mexican and U.S. law students gathered at the Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Guadalajara campus August 12 for a binational exercise examining what happens after deportation.

The singers in the Jalisco State Choir (Coro del Estado de Jalisco) have been riding a seesaw since early this year, but nobody is having much fun. 

This year’s rainy season has already toppled some 750 street trees that have also come crashing down, their shallow roots unable to withstand the fierce winds and saturated soil. You can add to that tally 350 trees across the city’s parks and green spaces — 160 in a single storm alone.