The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
Though Mexican appointment books, calendars and even Google declare that May 15 is Dia del Maestro (Teachers Day), all of the Republic’s campesinos know better.
Sunday, February 5, Constitution Day (now celebrated on the following Monday, February 6), is one of Mexico’s most important patriotic celebrations.
“It has been said that mythology is the penultimate truth—penultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words, beyond images. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told.”
– Joseph Campbell
As prescription and patent medicines in pharmacies continue to soar in price, many Mexican citizens are returning to less expensive traditional therapies.
Toward the wary end of a scattered, heat-gripped city week, the quiet balm of a portal-shaded cantina table beckons.
May and early June are the hottest, driest months—the roughest time for campesinos.
Before 11 a.m., April 22, a reader called one of the REPORTER’s contributors about downtown explosions. Then relatives of staff members rang, asking about the sector Reforma blasts that had killed hundreds, they said, possibly thousands.