May’s topsy-turvy holidays
In a quirky historical twist, two celebratory days in the first week of May (Dia del Trabajo and Cinco de Mayo) had their origins in the United States and Mexico respectively, but are today more widely observed in the other country.
The Chapala Yacht Club has been buzzing with activity over the Easter holidays as a select bunch of youngsters takes advantage of their vacation time to pick up the pace of training for Mexico’s 2012 season of major sailing competitions.
Promising to teach her listeners more about the money system “than 90 percent of the people on the planet” know, U.S. medical doctor and author Nancy Banks recently intrigued a small crowd of students and professors at Guadalajara’s Tec de Monterrey by explaining how greed dominates the functioning of international business and banking.