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My garden, a lovely house-front apron of flowering plants, shrubs and fruit trees, has been under siege by cutter ants, with no hope of a diplomatic settlement.

Trade talks between the United States and Mexico resumed amid growing doubts about the likelihood of a successful conclusion to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Leave it to California to come up with America’s latest anti-imperialist twist.

A friend of mine once complained bitterly about working in an industry he thought was taking advantage of people and their pain and anguish, physical and psychological. The industry was Big Pharma.

I sometimes think the expat community here at Lakeside believes it has no right to complain about anything here in Mexico.

Not long ago, I took a rare trip motoring from lakeside into Guadalajara, the city once known as the Pearl of the West.