GUADALAJARA - After only two years of doing business Guadalajara-based discount airline Alma de Mexico has ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy. 

MEXICO - Researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have happily stumbled on the discovery that a mix from the agave plant, the main ingredient of tequila, can be used to form diamonds.

GUADALAJARA - If you had headed for Expo Yoga – that annual event that takes place not at Expo Guadalajara but at the pleasant, mostly outdoor DIF facility on Eulogio Parra just west of Lopez Mateos – you might have expected, naturally enough, to encounter yoga.

MEXICO - Despite a takeover of the podium by left-wing legislators, the Chamber of Deputies ratified reforms to oil monopoly Pemex approved by the Senate last week.

MEXICO - Expats frequently get into heated debates about whether casas de cambios (exchange houses) give better rates than banks.