Qatar, Qatar, Qatar! We see the word everywhere we look at the moment. But when we hear it spoken, it sounds like Cotter, Cutter, Gutter and, in Mexico, Catarrh.

John Reed was a leftist American journalist and poet. In 1913, he spent four months traveling with Pancho Villa’s army, sending regular dispatches to Metropolitan Magazine in New York City.

English speakers constantly use words borrowed from Latin, Greek, French, German, Spanish and plenty of other languages.

A few Tapatios attending the premiere of a two-hour spectacle (requiem)  in memory of Fray Antonio Alcalde, the Dominican priest who served as Guadalajara’s bishop from 1771 to his death in 1792, came away with new knowledge about their home city.

Teúl de González Ortega, located near the south end of the state of Zacatecas, is one of Mexico’s most beautiful and interesting towns: a Pueblo Mágico (Magic Town) truly deserving of the name, conveniently located right next to an amazing archaeological site.

The zoos of my childhood were places where miserably unhappy animals paced away their lives in cages of steel, concrete and glass.