The fire started on Saturday, April 21 with some illegal trash burning on the edge of the Bosque La Primavera Protected Area where I work.  By Monday morning, it was burning out of control in many locations and a very well organized response was underway.

Nervous lakeside residents should not be alarmed to be roused from their sleep early Thursday, May 3 by a barrage of loud explosions.  It will simply be the signal for the start of celebrations held on the Feast of the Holy Cross.

Aged 11, Jose Humberto Romano Jimenez lost his mother in the Guadalajara gas explosions of April 22, 1992. A year later, he was crowned by British tabloids as the “adopted son” of the Prince of Wales.

In a quirky historical twist, two celebratory days in the first week of May (Dia del Trabajo and Cinco de Mayo) had their origins in the United States and Mexico respectively, but are today more widely observed in the other country.

April 22, 1992, 10.03 a.m. Manhole covers begin flying from the streets of Guadalajara’s Reforma district. White smoke streams out from the sewers.

U.S. actor Andy Garcia brings to life Jalisco-born General Enrique Gorostieta in the new English-language movie “Cristiada,” which opens on 500 screens across Mexico Friday, April 20.