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"Forget wondering what life is really like in Mexico, read "El Ojo del Lago" and get a first hand look through the eyes of the largest English-speaking community living outside Canada and the U.S. today."
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Mexico's Leading English Language Publication

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THE IMAGE OF MEXICO

All about the personage that for centuries has been called “the Image of Mexico”—The Virgin of Guadalupe. Her story is one that Mexicans have loved for more than five centuries. The point was made most forcefully when Octavio Paz, in winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1974, said that “The Mexican people have faith only in the Virgin of Guadalupe...and the National Lottery.”

NOWHERE BUT MEXICO

The writer describes a medical emergency she underwent on Christmas Day of 2010. Her article should make all ex-pats feel better about the expertise and compassion of the medical community here in Mexico.

LA FRONTERA FABULOSA

All about the “Fabulous Frontier,” the 1,933mile-long border between the US and Mexico, and the unique (and humorous) blending of both countries that exists along that frontier.

THE WALL

The story about a massive stone wall built in the chaotic days after the Mexican Revolution that served to separate two groups on the southwest shore of Lake Chapala: the indigenous and the lighter-skinned Mestizos.

A METAMORPHOSIS

Humorous complications arise when an ex-pat, entering her tub to take a shower, discovers a dead roach next to her foot.

AMONGST A LIFETIME OF ACHIEVEMENTS

The Lakeside Community Awards Committee has selected our Editor in Chief, Alejandro Grattan, as the recipient of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lakeside Living
On a warm and sunny New Year’s Day, twenty two people waded into the placid waters of Lake Chapala..................

Dogs, Graves and Scholars
The pre-Columbian sites in Western Mexico are never likely to replace Teotihuacan or Monte Alban as tourist attractions...................


Lake Chapala Society
Though LCS cannot hinder vendors from soliciting their wares and services outside of our gates.................
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