Bringing a motley assembly of traditional mariachi youth ensembles to the headquarters of Jalisco’s Secretary of Culture (Edificio Arroniz) was the inaugural event of a festival brought into existence, seemingly, in order to draw a line in the sand between traditional mariachi and the “modern” version, which came into being in the 1930s.

A major health crisis is what motivated Jaime Navarro into organic farming and probiotic beverages.

The son of Mexican immigrants, Tonatiuh Arturo Gomez Arroyo, 45, was born and raised in Venezuela.

In the annals of nephrology, Jalisco holds a dubious distinction: the highest rate of end stage renal disease in Mexico.

Toni Rahman can’t help but notice a general sense of stress and isolation among many of the “helpers” she meets in healing professions.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is best known at home as the man who ended 70 years of one-party rule in the year 2000, but failed to live up to expectations as president.