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Guadalajara shooter stays in jail

Zia Zafar, the 31-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of a U.S. consular official in Guadalajara on January 6, will remain in jail pending trial, a federal judge in Virginia ruled last week.


Ireland meets Mexico in new fusion album based on fiddle player’s ‘unique’ experiences in both countries

When musician Catherine John arrived in Cuernavaca from San Francisco in 2008, she could hardly have imagined that her subsequent journey would lead eight years later to the release of ¡Fandango Bragh!, a fusion album she describes as an expression of her “unique Irish-Mexican identity.”

Mexico unnerved by shock Trump victory

Just prior to the U.S. presidential election, Agustín Carstens, the respected governor of Mexico’s central bank, had warned that victory for Donald Trump would be akin to a “hurricane” for this country’s economy. 

Expats, Mexicans try to make sense of bad-tempered presidential debate

Millions of Americans and others around the world were transfixed to their televisions and computers Monday as the two major candidates vying to be the next leader of the free world traded blows during an often surreal debate that prompted one expat in Chapala to observe, “The United States has 340,000 million people and two bad candidates.”