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Imprints By Antonio Ramblés antonio.rambles@yahoo.com Guanajuato’s Centro Historico   The first sight of Guanajuato is breathtakingly beautiful.  Thousands of brightly colored buildings are draped across the hills like a mosaic carpet, and the colors are warm in the morning sunlight.  It’s picture postcard perfect. Guanajuato has played an important role throughout much of Mexico’s history,

Uncommon Common Sense By Bill Frayerbillfrayer@gmail.com Girls Are Leaving Boys Behind   It no longer seems incomprehensible that the United States will elect a woman as President. Of course, the US is far behind in this respect. Women have already served as heads of state in Sri Lanka, India, Israel, Argentina, the Central African Republic, The

Homeless And Hungry In Jocotepec By Sunny Sorensen   They are called ancianos. Some are so feeble they can no longer walk and suffer from incontinence. Others, because they have no homes, sleep in cardboard shacks on the street and in alleys. All are struggling with hunger and some would not have any food at

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION — kicks the oil-and-gas industry while it is down! By Marita Noon   For the past six years, the oil and gas industry has served as a savior to the Obama presidency by providing the near-lone bright spot in economic growth. Increased U.S. oil-and-gas production has created millions of well-paying jobs and given

Contented Dementia By Rosemary Graysonwww.lakesidecare.com   It’s fun living with dementia, if it’s not you. Or now it can be, even if it is you. To enter Thebes, they say the Sphynx‘s riddle was: “‘Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?” Those who got it wrong died. To enter

Front Row Center By Michael Warren Wrong Turn at LungfishBy Garry Marshall and Lowell GanzDirected by Peggy Lord Chilton   If you were to read the script of this play, you would probably find it dark and distasteful. The scene is a hospital room somewhere in New York City, and “Peter Ravenswaal” is an old,

“Cliff-Notes” On Mexican Turn Signals By John Ward   For those of you new to Mexico and for those who have been here for a while and need a refresher course, here is a little help in understanding one aspect of Mexican driving customs and practices. Most importantly, it is wise not to expect anyone

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton What Country is the Happiest?   Every few months I come across still another survey to determine what are the happiest countries in the world. Knowing that one can find happy people in every country in the world, I take these studies with a bucket of salt.

Puzzles And Puppets By Pia Kraus Aitken   At almost 18, I had been working my “school credit” job as Assistant Manager of our town’s newest and fanciest Motor Hotel for about eight months. Every day, my greatest hope was that a little excitement would walk through the door. Growing up in the late fifties

THE OJO INTERNET MAILBOX(Wherein we publish some comments about our previous issues.)   QUIPS Gabrielle Blair Thank you Max! I’m not a bird, but the advice is useful and it sounds like you got excellent treatment from Dr. Magana.   THE CONSERVATIVE CORNER Alex Glad I found your column. I was beginning to think there