In February, a group of mostly Guadalajara’s American School students and parents taking in the musical comedy “Honk!” sat up a little straighter whenever 18-year-old Maria Contreras, in her role as the Ugly Duckling’s mother, took the stage.

In 2011, British journalist Johann Hari was at the top of the journalistic pile. Sharp, brave and energetic, he was the Independent’s best-known columnist and named by The Daily Telegraph as one of the most influential left-wingers in Britain. Yet a series of plagiarism allegations turned his life upside down. He returned his prestigious 2008 George Orwell Prize and stepped away from the Independent. 

Anyone who has taken a bus in Guadalajara is familiar with the phenomenon: the wandering troubadours who jump aboard to sing songs of broken-hearted love in exchange for a few pesos.

When Len Laviolette was a mere eight years old, he and his brother were the objects of a saliva study at a university dental school. 

While based in Boston at a software sales job he didn’t like and growing tired of the cold, Rob Meehan dreamed about an adventure in another culture, perhaps one related to his longstanding love of old houses.

President Enrique Peña Nieto ended his three-day state visit to the United Kingdom on Thursday by signing deals designed to pave the way for greater British participation in Mexico’s oil sector.