Most retirees would probably balk at the idea of driving a car full of Mexican kids from Ajijic to Guadalajara and back again every weekend, simply to spend an hour barking instructions at them from the touchline of a soccer field.

Promising to teach her listeners more about the money system “than 90 percent of the people on the planet” know, U.S. medical doctor and author Nancy Banks recently intrigued a small crowd of students and professors at Guadalajara’s Tec de Monterrey by explaining how greed dominates the functioning of international business and banking.

Smartphones and tablets are the ‘it’ devices of today. They were designed from the ground up with ease of use in mind—hand someone a touch screen and it doesn’t take more than a few minutes for him or her to figure out the basics – but the sheer volume of applications (apps) to sift through can be daunting for the newcomer. Here, we would like to elucidate a few that could turn your new device (or future device) into the perfect, tireless assistant for living, working or traveling in Mexico.

Following a series of setbacks, National Action Party (PAN) candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota unveiled a new campaign team and strategy this week in an attempt to reinvigorate her bid to become Mexico’s first female president.

Pastor Ross Arnold

Lakeside Presbyterian Church:

“Christ is risen.  He is risen indeed.  Alleluia.”

Over the last couple of years, Mexico’s war on drugs has spawned a deluge of non-fiction books brimming with all the components of action-packed thrillers. With “narco-” among the most commonly used prefixes in contemporary Mexican culture, this new literary genre shall hereby be known as “narco-lit.”  Featuring an unsavory cast of corrupt police officers, crooked politicians, young street-level criminals and fugitive billionaire drug lords, these page-turners revolve around plot devices such as kidnappings, mammoth drug hauls, gunfights and gruesome executions.