Dear Sir,

Regarding the leaking of confidential emails from Sir Kim Darroch, the former British ambassador to the United States.

Dear Sir,

The mayor of Jocotepec, José Miguel Gómez López, is installing topes (speed bumps) like he was sprinkling ferry dust.

Dear Sir,

Trying to “gentrify” Ajijic with colored cement crosswalks seems to be so out of character with our village that I was surprised to learn that some Facebook chat groups are full of supportive chatter about the “improvements” initiated by the Chapala administration.

Dear Sir,

I was disappointed to read former professor Michael Hogan’s so-called book review of Todd Miller’s meritorious “Empire of Borders” – it was just an anti-U.S. diatribe of Hogan’s inflammatory and unreferenced opinions dealing with other author’s works.

Dear Sir,

It appears Chapala does not understand the new noise law – or doesn’t want to.

Dear Sir,

As a child, did you ever skip a flat stone across a pond, and be fascinated by the ripples? Out they go, spreading far and wide, bouncing off whatever they encounter to make new ripples.