When Ricardo Sanchez Corona was a boy, he took art classes organized by the government in his rural town near Mexico City.

As many as 1,000 people per day have been known to visit just one of Guadalajara‘s seven museums—El Museo del Periodismo y las Artes Gráficas. The city’s top museum has a lot to recommend it and prospective visitors may find some of it surprising.

“Medusa” is an eco-artistic/feminist project developed in the Jalisco town of Juanacatlán that aims to highlight the pollution problems affecting the Santiago River, which flows through this small municipality located on the periphery of the Guadalajara metropolitan area.

Walk a few blocks west on Avenida Juarez from the busy intersection of Alcalde and you’ll come across a peculiar bronze statue of a man standing on the sidewalk appearing to be pushing against the wall of a building. 

Strong nostalgia for a familiar liturgy characterizes many people who have drifted away from conservative churches due to unresolved issues such as women in the priesthood or married priests, says Rev. James Twyman, who at the moment is leading Episcopal-Anglican congregations in Ajijic and Guadalajara.

The speed at which Acapulco is bouncing back from the devastation caused by Hurricane Otis on October 25 of last year is astonishing.