The human cost of Mexico’s war on drugs has been well documented, with almost every news story written about the country ending with the now obligatory statistic that over 60,000 people have been killed since December 2006.

A sizable crowd of Canadian expats gathered at La Nueva Posada in Ajijic Friday, November 16 to hear a talk by their government’s defence attaché in Mexico City, Colonel Jamie Cade.  The event was organized by Guadalajara-based Canadian Consul Yvonne Chin, who was on hand to introduce the speaker.

Every year on November 20 Mexico celebrates the anniversary of the day in 1910 when the movement to overthrow dictator Porfirio Diaz formally began.

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).