In the 26 years that artist Ana Vazquez has lived four blocks from the huge Parque Metropolitano, a lot has changed. But one thing that has stayed the same almost all that time is that homeless animals, mostly cats, keep finding their way to the door of the house she shares with her husband and two children. And she keeps painting them.

Relatively new to the growing list of well-to-do Guadalajara malls is Punto Sao Paulo, a compact  plaza on Avenida Americas’ financial district, a stone’s throw from the fairways of the Guadalajara Country Club and just a few blocks from Plaza Patria.

Mexico’s crowded holiday calendar marks November 12 as Dia del Cartero (Postman’s Day).

Ajijic’s innovative Night of the Dead festival rated as a rousing success, with hundreds turning out to watch the spooky torch-light parade, wander the plaza for a peek at traditional memorial altars and marvel at a block-long colored sawdust carpet artfully laid out on Calle Parroquia.

Dozens of Mexican students and young people were given a crash course in U.S. electoral procedure at an election night reception organized by the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara and held at the Instituto Cultural Mexicano-Norteamericano.

The mood went from edgy to cautious optimism to jump-up-and-down jubilation as members of the Ajijic chapter of Democrats Abroad and others congregated for an election night vigil at Club Exotica on November 6.