Enjoy spring equinox at Guachimontones
More than 15,000 celebrants are expected to visit the archaeological ruins at Guachimontones, outside Teuchitlan, Jalisco between March 20 and 23. Spring rituals are held at 8 a.m., noon and 4 p.m. daily, with concerts and dance shows at 8 p.m.

Children’s cancer hospital to open later this year
Wild outfits, costumes and humorous themes were the operating rules for elaborately decorated floats in Ajijic’s Carnaval parade.
Discrimination and racism are “mental and psychological diseases” that must be tackled through public policy, just as a doctor cures a sick patient, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum told a rapt audience at the State Congress building Tuesday.
Without the excessive ostentation so common in the past – although with disproportionate security, many citizens complained – Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval walked the short distance from his Guadalajara office to the Congress building on Tuesday to deliver his first annual state-of-the-state report (informe).