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“Coco,” the 2017 hit cartoon feature revolving around Mexico’s Día de Muertos traditions, is back in local movie theaters, bringing up renewed reflections on the country’s core family values.

For as long as I can remember local expats have groused about being harassed by unscrupulous traffic cops who coerce them into shelling out on-the-spot payoffs to avoid paying official fines, or worse, threats of having their vehicles towed off for impoundment.

Chatting over lunch with several old acquaintances last week, one of the ladies commented, “People who have lived here for a long time talk about how great it used to be.” The very next day we learned that Ajijic didn’t qualify for the Pueblo Mágico program.

“I saw on Facebook that the Attorney General of the state of Jalisco has been shot at the Hotel Perico.”

She’s a lovely lady who creates quite a ruckus, like it or not.

Lake Chapala invariably changes appearance as months roll by, rising with rainfall that comes principally from June through October and dipping though the drier months that follow.