A 26-year-old woman died in a rare shark attack while swimming with her son in the Jalisco coastal town of Melaque.

Histories tell us that Christmas carols actually had no religious content in the late 1800s. But then the enterprising Right Rev. Edward White Benson began a service of “Nine Lessons and Carols” to get the party-hearty crowd out of Cornish pubs and into church.

Historian José María Muriá, 81, one of this region’s most prolific authors, as well as an esteemed museographer, academic and professor, was recognized by the International Book Fair (FIL) this week in a special tribute presided over by Universidad de Guadalajara Rector Ricardo Villanueva.

Entering a city or town triumphantly on horseback accompanied by supporters and admirers (a procession referred to as a cabalgata) is something of a tradition in Mexico.  

After finishing fifth in the regular season standings, the Guadalajara Chivas will play the Mexico City Pumas (UNAM)in the quarter finals of the Liga Mx Apertura 2023 soccer tournament.  

Ajijic becomes wrapped in a veil of calm and quiet as the raucous fiestas patronales wind down this weekend.