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In spite of Trump presidency, Jalisco’s export economy remains buoyant

In spite of dismal prognostications about how the state’s economic performance would be affected by a Trump presidency, the vigor of Jalisco’s export sector is showing no signs of diminution, growing by 12.37 percent in the first half of 2017 from the same period last year, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).


Earthquake evacuation exercise set for Sept. 19

In the wake of the devastating earthquake that rattled a vast swath of southern Mexico just over a week ago, evacuation exercises will be held Tuesday, September 19, 11 a.m., at numerous government buildings, schools and major businesses at lakeside.

Concepcion de Buenos Aires: where avocados reign supreme

Last Sunday, five of Mexico’s most ubiquitous agricultural products were brought together in a hamlet tucked into the hills 30 minutes south of Lake Chapala to create a comically outsized quantity – one which they hoped would gain entrance into the leger of the Guinness Book of World Records – of one of the country’s most ubiquitous culinary exports, guacamole.