Child Of The Month By Barb Corol This beautiful little girl is Maria Jose, diagnosed shortly after birth with Cerebral Palsy. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a broad term used to describe a group of chronic “palsies” – disorders that impair control of movement due to damage to the developing brain. CP usually develops by
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The Poets’ Niche By Mark Sconce Translations: A Chinese Puzzle Internationally respected translator and my dear friend, James Falen, writes of translation: “It is a devilishly and tricky business, this game in a house of mirrors, this effort to catch and reflect elusive reflections.” He should know having spent eight years translating Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin.
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PROFILING TEPEHUA By Moonyeen Kingmoonie1935@yahoo.com In the following, printed in the Habitat International Coalition, June 2013: “World Charter on the Rights to the City.” Neilson Saule, Jnr. stated, “According to United Nations statistics, the degree of urbanization has now surpassed the 50% mark. In 2005, the population living in cities was already 3.2 billion,
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The Slow Death Of Bradley Manning By Jim Muir Now that Bradley Manning has been sentenced to the slow death of spending up to 35 years in prison, the United States Government has finally made it official that its actions in promoting, supporting and actively participating in the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal was an
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Gringas & Guacamole By Gail Nott Tennis, Anyone? It was becoming increasingly apparent that tennis was the new “in thing” among the residents living around Lake Chapala. The ladies at lunch raved about the new instructor´s patience and skill. He wasn’t hard on the eyes, with or without glasses on. Being as health conscious
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Letter’s to the Editor TO: Richard Tingen, Publisher Alejandro Grattan-Dominguez, Editor-in-Chief David Tingen, Associate Publisher On behalf of Los Niños de Chapala y Ajijic (NCA), may I thank you for including us in your Writers’ Recognition Luncheon. It was a gracious gesture, and I thoroughly enjoyed time with your lively and entertaining
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EL OJO DEL LAGO—Happy 30th Birthday! We are greatly pleased to announce that with our September issue, our magazine turned its 30th birthday. It was way back in 1983 that Richard Tingen, along with June and Cody Summers, established an in-house publication for Chapala Realty that only showcased real estate ads. Later, the Ojo
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Welcome to Mexico!By Victoria Schmidt Answering My Door It is early evening, and the doorbell rings. Thinking it is our dog walker, I leash up the dogs and walk them to the garage door. I open the door, but it wasn’t him. Instead a young man stood there, and asked for me by name.
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When The Fish Fight Back By Kelly Hayes-Raitt Ko Tao is one of those idyllic islands off the southeast coast of Thailand that boasts hillsides so lush, beaches so powdery and scuba diving so magical that it’s almost a travel brochure cliché. What the brochures conveniently fail to mention is how unwelcoming the natives
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The Distribution Of Wealth In Mexico By Bill Dean The Distribution of Wealth in Mexico is a relatively obscure essay published in 1940. Its author, Federico Bach, was a Mexican economist and lecturer. He has been described as a known Marxist who at one time was expelled from Mexico as a “Communist agitator.” That
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