Mexican director wins Oscar but some of his peers at home are unimpressed
The space drama “Gravity” won seven Oscars at last Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards, including best director for Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron, the first Latin American to be bestowed with such an honor.

Some 150 Venezuelans living in Guadalajara made a beeline for the Minerva Fountain Sunday to add their voice to the protests against President Nicolas Maduro currently rocking the South American nation.
A group of students from Drake University recently completed an 18-day exchange program with the Tec de Monterrey Guadalajara Campus – the first visit of its kind since 2008.
There were smiles, toasts and plenty of kind words for each other but Tuesday’s meeting between Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not exactly the love-in between major trade partners that it may have appeared on the surface.
You might already be consuming Canadian food products every day, even if you don’t realize it.