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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.”

 

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.

 

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 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.

 

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

 

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

 
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