More than a century apart, two posters tell the story of the United States’ most wanted men in Mexico.

The friendly vibes were flowing Tuesday night as trivia teams huddled around tables at Rosarito bar on Avenida Chapultepec in Guadalajara. The impromptu and very international teams of mostly youngish people seemed happy to engage in something strictly for fun, as organizer Nate Perlow worked to entertain and challenge them with questions about that night’s topics.

+When the Festival Internacional de Danza Folclórica Colores del Mundo opens its 14th edition April 6-12, the plaza in Tala won’t just fill with dancers. It will fill with sound — Serbian brass, Brazilian percussion, Chilean orchestration, Veracruz zapateado — and with something harder to quantify: a sense of shared wonder.

Community and environmental organizations from the Lake Chapala region have taken the fight over the future of the lake to federal court.

Although the 40 days of Lent are meant to be a time of penance and fasting, one of the guilty pleasures of the season is savoring the wonderful culinary specialties Mexican cooks whip up especially at this time of year. 

For years, he was Mexico’s most-wanted fugitive, a ghost who controlled half the country’s drug trade from the shadows, shielded by a platoonof well-armed bodyguards.