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Below are descriptions of several scams which have been “making the rounds” in the Guadalajara area in 2022 and which came to my attention via personal reports from some of the victims. Their names have been changed.

Rocky Contos is director of SierraRios, a non-profit organization that offers rafting trips down big, Grand-Canyon type rivers around the world.

Geographers tell us that Mexico has five big ecosystems, which, for the sake of brevity, I will call deserts, high forests, grasslands, tropical evergreen forests and tropical deciduous forests.

The Ciudad de México embraces the most populous metropolitan area in North America, teeming with around 25 million inhabitants.

Qatar, Qatar, Qatar! We see the word everywhere we look at the moment. But when we hear it spoken, it sounds like Cotter, Cutter, Gutter and, in Mexico, Catarrh.

John Reed was a leftist American journalist and poet. In 1913, he spent four months traveling with Pancho Villa’s army, sending regular dispatches to Metropolitan Magazine in New York City.