Papaloapan University Ranks Third in Mexico

The Universidad del Papaloapan took third place in the nationwide Becalos competition. I am so proud of my team. This was the first year that our little English department participated in the online challenge with medicine, nursing, chemistry, biotec, and business students from smalltown Oaxaca sweating in the rainforest to outperform many of Mexico's far bigger and wealthier universities. Congratulations to our Becalos tutors Laura Angeles Sanchez and Sibel Estrada Escobedo!

The World's Most Important Job

Spirituality has always come from rivers. The Nile gave birth to western civilization which cradled Christianity and Islam. The Indus germinated eastern systems which sprouted Hinduism and Buddhism. Yet, the holy water that completes the holy trinity is less known.

As a professor at Papaloapan University, I am astonished how few people realize that the watershed of the jade green Papaloapan River was bedrock foundation for a new world society which constructed a new world ideology. Perhaps we who live in the Americas, who know much about religions from abroad, should learn more about the faith of our homeland.