After Steve Leveen retired from business, took a foray into learning Spanish and returned to university for two more years of education – he already had a PhD – aimed at kindling a second profession, he began to describe himself as a “recovering monolingual” and set his sights on inspiring his fellow Americans to embrace bilingualism.

A lofty long-term goal of Sin Planeta B (Without Planet B), a non-profit organization in the town of Tamazula de Gordiano in southeastern Jalisco, is to see environmental education implemented in every classroom in the state.

“Talento que transforma” (talent that transforms) – the opening mantra of Laboratoria’s website – reinforces how this international non-profit helps thousands of talented Latin American women land careers in the evolving tech industry.

Much of today’s news seems to be about people wanting to downsize, spend less and live a simpler lifestyle.Ranging from 20-somethings, to retirees and everyone in between, many of these same people are opting to create a smaller environmental footprint.

A rustic stone silo on a rural stretch of the divided, east-west highway to Ocotlan (Mexico Route 35) has been the unlikely home for the last three years of the evocative installations of Kate Gubelman, a U.S. architect who has lived in Mexico since 1993.

As the United States approaches its third week of government closure over the funding of Trump’s disputed U.S.-Mexico border wall, members of Democrats Abroad Lake Chapala Chapter warmly welcomed a leading human rights advocate from the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) on Monday, January 14.