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Geographers tell us that Mexico has five big ecosystems, which, for the sake of brevity, I will call deserts, high forests, grasslands, tropical evergreen forests and tropical deciduous forests.

The Ciudad de México embraces the most populous metropolitan area in North America, teeming with around 25 million inhabitants.

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.