A pair of siblings in the United States may have created the world’s first airplane and the most successful ever aircraft constructors may be the pride of Seattle, Washington, but U.S. airlines are no longer the poster boys for the aviation industry.

The United States Consulate in Guadalajara put on a lively bash to celebrate the 238th U.S. Independence Day — held this year for the first time in the Patio de Cristal of the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara (UAG) in the upmarket suburb of Lomas de Valle. About 90 percent of the consulate’s staff members were there to greet guests and generally keep the social extravaganza moving smoothly.

More than 250 soccer fans who traveled to the World Cup in Brazil on a package deal turned up for their flight at Recife Airport on Wednesday to discover that the tour operator had a failed to book their charter plane home.

The history of gay and lesbian rights in the United States was the subject of an address given by Joseph Pomper, the U.S. consul general in Monterrey, at the LGBT Business Expo held in Puerto Vallarta last week.

The presidents of Peru, Colombia and Chile arrived in Puerto Vallarta on Thursday to join Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto for the  ninth Pacific Alliance leaders’ summit.

Tapatios who hobnobbed with Spain’s queen in-waiting while she lived in Guadalajara in the mid-1990s remember her as an honest, intelligent student with a zest for life.