Guadalajarences?

For reasons that are not entirely clear, very few people from cities in Latin American have demonyms which have obvious origins.

People from Mexico City are chilangos.

From Buenos Aires, portenos. 

Bogota, rolos. 

And people from Guadalajara are called tapatios. 

The term apparently derives from an old Nahuatl coin or monetary unit, the tapatiotl. 

It is also a brand of hot sauce.

 

Why Join the Foreign Service? Part VI

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”

– Anna Quindlen

No Bueno

Julia Ioffe has written a bleak description of a forlorn State Department in her latest piece for The Atlantic. “The cafeteria is so crowded all day” because “no one’s doing anything,” one official told her; another said her job “feels like coming to the hospital to take care of a terminally ill family member.” “I don’t think this administration thinks the State Department needs to exist,” Ioffe was told. “They think Jared [Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law] can do everything.”

Full article here.