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Mexico’s holiday beer

Symbols such as Christmas trees and Old Saint Nick are universally known in Guadalajara as the harbingers of the holiday season. But there’s another sign that Christmas is just around the corner: Noche Buena beer.


Home burglaries to rise this year

The number of home burglaries in the Guadalajara metropolitan area in 2012 is already on course to surpass last year’s total, with 2,829 incidents in the metro area’s four main municipalities reported to the Jalisco Attorney General’s Office (PGJEJ) between January 1 to October 31. Of these, 1,162 took place in Guadalajara, 997 in Zapopan, 374 in Tlaquepaque and 296 in Tonala.

Mexico presidential trivia

- Mexico’s first president Guadalupe Victoria (1824-1829) was in fact christened Jose Miguel Ramon Adaucto Fernandez y Felix. He assumed a new name in tribute to the nation’s triumph in the struggled for independence and to the dark-skinned Virgin whose image was emblazoned on the standards on insurgent troops. He was also the first bachelor to serve as the country’s head of state. He finally married in 1841 at age 55, leaving bride Maria Antonia Breton a widow less than two years later after suffering an epileptic seizure.