Rachel Laudan

If you live in the US and have a burning desire to know more about Guanajuato you might want to check out the upcoming PBS program, Fiesta Mexicana, most of which was filmed here. The music is from all over Mexico but you will see our wonderful Teatro Juarez, perfect fin de siecle opera [...]

We hear so much about the problems of the big US slaughterhouses that it’s easy to forget that small ones are not necessarily ideal either.
This November the political leaders here in the city of Guanajuato are asking the State to help with a million dollar clean up of the town slaughterhouse. Of course that’s [...]

The Bajio, the rich farmland of Central Guanajuato, is becoming a major vegetable growing area for the international market. A good article in the NY Times interviews American farmers who are now renting land here. I would add that it’s not just Americans who insist on porta potties, clean water etc. Big Mexican [...]