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Saturday, April 21, 2018

April Execution Stats Updates: 125 in TIJ More On the Way - Zeta Reports on the Children Killed in Tijuana From Drug War 2017 to Present - Zeta Reports on the Authorities Attacked in Tijuana 2017 to Present - More Bodies on the Scenic Highway Down the Road - Ensenada is a MESS - Trump Atrocities Since the Last Blog - A Special Song For Melania !

The Cantu, Ensenada Poppy Fields



 I never thought I would be able to sit down, Paris has been somewhat problematic due to the meds she is taking for her eye problem and I've been attempting to get the inside of the house painted before the weather turns hot.  She is taking prednisone at the lowest possible dose, but it makes her cranky, thirsty, hungry and there is a lot of pee-pee.  I've given up having rugs downstairs, thank goodness for "Nature's Miracle."

 Part of her cranky-ness is being super possessive of everything, which is a challenge. Poor thing, we take her back to the VCA eye clinic this coming week.  And, of course the painting in small spurts freaks her out completely.  Bob the DACA cat shows up for food but he senses her stress and leaves.  He did bring along his girlfriend and we think his child twice which we were not happy about. He accused us of being just like ICE and separating families.  (What am I going to do with three feral cats...)   Plus I smashed my left hand pounding down the chicken breasts for Chicken Parmiagiana.


Here are The Latest Stats.....

 - This Morning, Frontera reported the YTD executions in Tijuana amount to 673 executed - these numbers come from the PGJE:

Frontera - 04/21/2018 7:50am

Cifra de Asesinatos en Tijuana Supera Los 670 En 2018
 Por, Angel F. Gonzalez


 -  Which means that the April Monthly Total in Tijuana  according to Frontera's figures is up to 125 dead:

Frontera - 04/19/2018

Ejecutan a Otras Dos Personas en Hechos Distintos
Por, Angel F. Gonzalez


" Ya Basta ! No Mas Mentiras !  No Mas Complicidad ! "


 - On 04/19 Zeta reported the statements of Alejandro Jara Soria, Presidente of CANACINTRA who specifically addresses the wave of violence in Ensenada and blames it on  the Authorities for not doing their job (s) and failing the citizens

He says, "It is evident that there is ineptitude, preventative measures are not working, there are no results in the investigations, clarifications and punishments of criminals, which generate greater impunity to the detriment of the rule of law and most seriously, growing citizen unrest."

At the point when this article was printed (04/19) the YTD execution figures obtained by Presidente Soria from the PGJE stood at:

Tijuana -  654
Ensenada -  72 ( actually almost at 80 as of the printed date)
Mexicali -  58
Rosarito -  27
Tecate -  23
Baja State YTD Total -  654

Zeta
Ola de violencia en Ensenada es Resultado de la Impunidad
Por, Lorena Lamas - 04/19/2018 4:35pm


**********


 - I will return to the subject of Ensenada where the bodies keep piling up, but first let's take a look at Zeta's report on the children killed/executed during the drug war in Tijuana 2017 and into 2018.  The full report is in the printed edition, will get a copy of that this weekend hopefully:

Pasted for you:

Zeta
79 Ninos Ejecutados y Baleados en Tijuana
Por, Ines Garcia Ramos  -  04/20/2018


"Since 2017, 45 minors have been shot and another 34 have been wounded in armed attacks in Tijuana. The victims go from the year to 17 years of age, including a teenage mother. Many are collateral victims of gunmen who fired at families in marginal areas and in a few cases, they are adolescents who entered the crime. For an expert, it is the consequence of the decomposition of the social fabric, government abandonment and social inequality

 
Minutes before the end of the night of August 1, 2017, firefighters and municipal police arrive at a vehicle burning on Tlatelolco Street in the Lomas de Tlatelolco neighborhood in the Eastern Zone of Tijuana.

 
Once the fire is extinguished and when checking the trunk of the blue Honda Civic car, they find the body of a man without life.

 
Some parts of the body, such as the face, are already black from the fire, but the red shirt and denim trousers he wore are not consumed, nor is a chain worn around his neck.

 
Beneath the nose, a blood stain reaches the lips. The young man had been killed by a gunshot. The first police report placed the victim between 20 and 25 years of age, in fact he was 16.

 
His name was Edwin Jair, but police corporations also identified him as "The Wiwi" or "The Derek". Shortly before his assassination, he had been arrested in possession of a .38 caliber handgun and 15 doses of glass in the October 3 colony. Neither of the two crimes was worthy of imprisonment.
With the face of a child and wearing his school uniform, white short-sleeved polo shirt and blue pants, Edwin Jair admitted to having "thrown a jale" in the Villa Fontana neighborhood on the orders of a man nicknamed "El Mazapán", but also assured that he no longer works more for him for fear of being killed.

 
In the year with the most executions in Tijuana, Edwin Jair is one of 45 minors killed in armed attacks from January 1, 2017 to April 19, 2018 in the city, according to records of the State Attorney General's Office ( PGJE).

 
Of these cases, 31 occurred in 2017 and in just four months of 2018, 14 more cases have been documented. The ages of the victims range from three, four, five and eight years to adolescents of 15, 16 and 17 years.

 
When reviewing the category of minors injured by bullets in the same period, attended by emergency services, the figure is 34 cases in Tijuana. Among the victims, there is a one-year-old baby, boys and girls of three, five, eight and nine years old, as well as teenagers.

 
The places of the attacks are concentrated in the periphery of the municipality, especially in the East Zone. Colonies like Mariano Matamoros, El Florido, Urbi Villas del Prado, Sanchez Taboada, Las Torres, El Pipila are frequent scenes of these crimes.

 
The Attorney General of the State (PGJE) distinguishes a large part as collateral victims, children and adolescents who were with their parents or near an adult target of the armed attack, but also warns of the participation of adolescents in the sale of drug and even in executions as a mobile aggression.
The attacks, according to authorities, are attributed to the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), the Arellano Felix Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel, the three criminal organizations with a presence in the city.

 
However, beyond the struggle between cartels for the control of drug sales, Ana Laura Galicia Acosta, a child and youth psychotherapist, finds common factors in the contexts of these minors: multi-problematic families, rooted in social inequality and in environments of extreme violence. In short, the decomposition of the social fabric."


********** 

 -  Despite what you may have read in the US MSM that hardly any authorities have been attacked or killed here, take a look at these figures:  


"Largate de aqui !"  (Get Out Of Here !)

Zeta: Note the higher execution numbers for Tijuana towards the end of the article.
41 Ataques a Policias Municipales en Tijuana
Por, Rosario Mosso Castro  -  04/16/2018


**********

 - Ensenada is a mess:


April 3:

 - Another corpse located  inside a plastic bag, Ejido Padre Kino of San Quintin.  The weekend before 2 skeletons located; one on the road to San Pedro Martir, the other on the road to Ejido Emiliano Zapato.  Author notes PGJE at this point has reported 55 murders since the beginning of the year in Ensenada - this number beats the YTD totals of 2014 and 2015:


Zeta - 10:59am
Embolsan Cadaver Junto a Panteon, en San Quintin
Por, Marco A. Flores



 April 11:

 - On the road to Oso Negros in Villas de El Roble six corpses located in different gravesites.  Author notes  that according to the Asociacion Unidos Por Los Desaparecidos there are 120 people still missing from Ensenada and the number increases monthly:

Zeta - 9:21pm
Hallen Seis Cadaveres en Fosas, en Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas


April 16:

 - Esteban Villa a local livestock businessman shot and killed when he was leaving his rancho:

Zeta - 9:24am
Matan a Ganadero de Ensenada Saliendo de Su Rancho
Por, Marco A. Flores 


April 18:

 - One man dead and one woman injured from gunfire.  Author notes that at this point there have been more than 71 murders in Ensenada, last year's total was 193:

Zeta - 8:25 pm
Matan a Hombre y Hieren a Mujer en Ensenada
Por, Marco A. Flores


April 19:

 - Three dead in Ensenada in less than 12 hours:

Zeta - 7:50 pm
 Asesinan a Tres en Menos de 12 Horas en Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas 


April 19:

 - Five executions in Ensenada in 18 hours:

Zeta - 12:51 pm
Imparable Ola de Violencia en Ensenada; Cinco asesinatos en 18 Horas
Por, Marco A. Flores


April 20: 

 - In Loma Linda in front of a Christian church, one man shot and wounded:

Zeta - 6:29 pm
Balean a Hombre en Loma Linda, Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas


April 21 - 3:45pm

 - Shot and killed on the public Highway this morning was Adojan Martin Salgado Garcia the former well liked and community minded ex- Delegado of Isla de Cedros and member of the Abulon Co-op; he was also a former official in the administration of ex- Ensenada Mayor Gilberto Hirata.

Zeta
Asesinado Fue Delegado de Isla de Cedros y Cooperativista de Abulon
Por, Marco A. Flores


We'll just have to see if these increase in Ensenada.

 - Meanwhile, there are two different locations for poppy fields eradicated by the authorities:

1.  According to Frontera and other sources, this crop was growing in ex-Ejido Cantu, Ensenada...30 clicks south of La Bufadora on the Pacific Ocean Coast@
"La Soledad".


Hallan en BC Mayor Plantio de Amapola
Por, Cesar Cordova - 04/18/2018  7:41




2.  According to Zeta, the location was 15 clicks south-west of Ejido Uruapan, no mention of the Pacific Coast:

Destruye Ejercito 4 Hectareas de Amapola en Ensenada
Por, Marco A. Flores - 04/17/18 4:03 pm

**********

Rosarito......

  - In colonia Los Volcanes the badly decomposed body of a man located, parts had been eaten by animals, bound hands and feet:

Frontera - 04/15/18 6:15pm
Localizan Cadaver de Hombre en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Gutierrez


 - Down the road, the bodies of three men with signs of visible violence tossed on the Scenic Highway close to the Convention Center:

Zeta - 04/17/18  11:07am
Tres Acribillados en Playas de Rosarito

********** 

Trump.....

Good one from Counterpunch :

Ruling Class Operatives Say the Darndest Things: On Devils Known and Not
By, Paul Street


Just about everything Donald here from Democracy Now !

Same with Syria.

Good ones from Louis Proyect. 

Of course, The Intercept. 




And finally, a song for Melania Trump :


See ya'll later !

April Execution Stats Updates: 125 in TIJ More On the Way - Zeta Reports on the Children Killed in Tijuana From Drug War 2017 to Present - Zeta Reports on the Authorities Attacked in Tijuana 2017 to Present - More Bodies on the Scenic Highway Down the Road - Ensenada is a MESS - Trump Atrocities Since the Last Blog - A Special Song For Melania !

The Cantu, Ensenada Poppy Fields



 I never thought I would be able to sit down, Paris has been somewhat problematic due to the meds she is taking for her eye problem and I've been attempting to get the inside of the house painted before the weather turns hot.  She is taking prednisone at the lowest possible dose, but it makes her cranky, thirsty, hungry and there is a lot of pee-pee.  I've given up having rugs downstairs, thank goodness for "Nature's Miracle."

 Part of her cranky-ness is being super possessive of everything, which is a challenge. Poor thing, we take her back to the VCA eye clinic this coming week.  And, of course the painting in small spurts freaks her out completely.  Bob the DACA cat shows up for food but he senses her stress and leaves.  He did bring along his girlfriend and we think his child twice which we were not happy about. He accused us of being just like ICE and separating families.  (What am I going to do with three feral cats...)   Plus I smashed my left hand pounding down the chicken breasts for Chicken Parmiagiana.


Here are The Latest Stats.....

 - This Morning, Frontera reported the YTD executions in Tijuana amount to 673 executed - these numbers come from the PGJE:

Frontera - 04/21/2018 7:50am

Cifra de Asesinatos en Tijuana Supera Los 670 En 2018
 Por, Angel F. Gonzalez


 -  Which means that the April Monthly Total in Tijuana  according to Frontera's figures is up to 125 dead:

Frontera - 04/19/2018

Ejecutan a Otras Dos Personas en Hechos Distintos
Por, Angel F. Gonzalez


" Ya Basta ! No Mas Mentiras !  No Mas Complicidad ! "


 - On 04/19 Zeta reported the statements of Alejandro Jara Soria, Presidente of CANACINTRA who specifically addresses the wave of violence in Ensenada and blames it on  the Authorities for not doing their job (s) and failing the citizens

He says, "It is evident that there is ineptitude, preventative measures are not working, there are no results in the investigations, clarifications and punishments of criminals, which generate greater impunity to the detriment of the rule of law and most seriously, growing citizen unrest."

At the point when this article was printed (04/19) the YTD execution figures obtained by Presidente Soria from the PGJE stood at:

Tijuana -  654
Ensenada -  72 ( actually almost at 80 as of the printed date)
Mexicali -  58
Rosarito -  27
Tecate -  23
Baja State YTD Total -  654

Zeta
Ola de violencia en Ensenada es Resultado de la Impunidad
Por, Lorena Lamas - 04/19/2018 4:35pm


**********


 - I will return to the subject of Ensenada where the bodies keep piling up, but first let's take a look at Zeta's report on the children killed/executed during the drug war in Tijuana 2017 and into 2018.  The full report is in the printed edition, will get a copy of that this weekend hopefully:

Pasted for you:

Zeta
79 Ninos Ejecutados y Baleados en Tijuana
Por, Ines Garcia Ramos  -  04/20/2018


"Since 2017, 45 minors have been shot and another 34 have been wounded in armed attacks in Tijuana. The victims go from the year to 17 years of age, including a teenage mother. Many are collateral victims of gunmen who fired at families in marginal areas and in a few cases, they are adolescents who entered the crime. For an expert, it is the consequence of the decomposition of the social fabric, government abandonment and social inequality

 
Minutes before the end of the night of August 1, 2017, firefighters and municipal police arrive at a vehicle burning on Tlatelolco Street in the Lomas de Tlatelolco neighborhood in the Eastern Zone of Tijuana.

 
Once the fire is extinguished and when checking the trunk of the blue Honda Civic car, they find the body of a man without life.

 
Some parts of the body, such as the face, are already black from the fire, but the red shirt and denim trousers he wore are not consumed, nor is a chain worn around his neck.

 
Beneath the nose, a blood stain reaches the lips. The young man had been killed by a gunshot. The first police report placed the victim between 20 and 25 years of age, in fact he was 16.

 
His name was Edwin Jair, but police corporations also identified him as "The Wiwi" or "The Derek". Shortly before his assassination, he had been arrested in possession of a .38 caliber handgun and 15 doses of glass in the October 3 colony. Neither of the two crimes was worthy of imprisonment.
With the face of a child and wearing his school uniform, white short-sleeved polo shirt and blue pants, Edwin Jair admitted to having "thrown a jale" in the Villa Fontana neighborhood on the orders of a man nicknamed "El Mazapán", but also assured that he no longer works more for him for fear of being killed.

 
In the year with the most executions in Tijuana, Edwin Jair is one of 45 minors killed in armed attacks from January 1, 2017 to April 19, 2018 in the city, according to records of the State Attorney General's Office ( PGJE).

 
Of these cases, 31 occurred in 2017 and in just four months of 2018, 14 more cases have been documented. The ages of the victims range from three, four, five and eight years to adolescents of 15, 16 and 17 years.

 
When reviewing the category of minors injured by bullets in the same period, attended by emergency services, the figure is 34 cases in Tijuana. Among the victims, there is a one-year-old baby, boys and girls of three, five, eight and nine years old, as well as teenagers.

 
The places of the attacks are concentrated in the periphery of the municipality, especially in the East Zone. Colonies like Mariano Matamoros, El Florido, Urbi Villas del Prado, Sanchez Taboada, Las Torres, El Pipila are frequent scenes of these crimes.

 
The Attorney General of the State (PGJE) distinguishes a large part as collateral victims, children and adolescents who were with their parents or near an adult target of the armed attack, but also warns of the participation of adolescents in the sale of drug and even in executions as a mobile aggression.
The attacks, according to authorities, are attributed to the New Generation Jalisco Cartel (CJNG), the Arellano Felix Cartel and the Sinaloa Cartel, the three criminal organizations with a presence in the city.

 
However, beyond the struggle between cartels for the control of drug sales, Ana Laura Galicia Acosta, a child and youth psychotherapist, finds common factors in the contexts of these minors: multi-problematic families, rooted in social inequality and in environments of extreme violence. In short, the decomposition of the social fabric."


********** 

 -  Despite what you may have read in the US MSM that hardly any authorities have been attacked or killed here, take a look at these figures:  


"Largate de aqui !"  (Get Out Of Here !)

Zeta: Note the higher execution numbers for Tijuana towards the end of the article.
41 Ataques a Policias Municipales en Tijuana
Por, Rosario Mosso Castro  -  04/16/2018


**********

 - Ensenada is a mess:


April 3:

 - Another corpse located  inside a plastic bag, Ejido Padre Kino of San Quintin.  The weekend before 2 skeletons located; one on the road to San Pedro Martir, the other on the road to Ejido Emiliano Zapato.  Author notes PGJE at this point has reported 55 murders since the beginning of the year in Ensenada - this number beats the YTD totals of 2014 and 2015:


Zeta - 10:59am
Embolsan Cadaver Junto a Panteon, en San Quintin
Por, Marco A. Flores



 April 11:

 - On the road to Oso Negros in Villas de El Roble six corpses located in different gravesites.  Author notes  that according to the Asociacion Unidos Por Los Desaparecidos there are 120 people still missing from Ensenada and the number increases monthly:

Zeta - 9:21pm
Hallen Seis Cadaveres en Fosas, en Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas


April 16:

 - Esteban Villa a local livestock businessman shot and killed when he was leaving his rancho:

Zeta - 9:24am
Matan a Ganadero de Ensenada Saliendo de Su Rancho
Por, Marco A. Flores 


April 18:

 - One man dead and one woman injured from gunfire.  Author notes that at this point there have been more than 71 murders in Ensenada, last year's total was 193:

Zeta - 8:25 pm
Matan a Hombre y Hieren a Mujer en Ensenada
Por, Marco A. Flores


April 19:

 - Three dead in Ensenada in less than 12 hours:

Zeta - 7:50 pm
 Asesinan a Tres en Menos de 12 Horas en Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas 


April 19:

 - Five executions in Ensenada in 18 hours:

Zeta - 12:51 pm
Imparable Ola de Violencia en Ensenada; Cinco asesinatos en 18 Horas
Por, Marco A. Flores


April 20: 

 - In Loma Linda in front of a Christian church, one man shot and wounded:

Zeta - 6:29 pm
Balean a Hombre en Loma Linda, Ensenada
Por, Lorena Lamas


April 21 - 3:45pm

 - Shot and killed on the public Highway this morning was Adojan Martin Salgado Garcia the former well liked and community minded ex- Delegado of Isla de Cedros and member of the Abulon Co-op; he was also a former official in the administration of ex- Ensenada Mayor Gilberto Hirata.

Zeta
Asesinado Fue Delegado de Isla de Cedros y Cooperativista de Abulon
Por, Marco A. Flores


We'll just have to see if these increase in Ensenada.

 - Meanwhile, there are two different locations for poppy fields eradicated by the authorities:

1.  According to Frontera and other sources, this crop was growing in ex-Ejido Cantu, Ensenada...30 clicks south of La Bufadora on the Pacific Ocean Coast@
"La Soledad".


Hallan en BC Mayor Plantio de Amapola
Por, Cesar Cordova - 04/18/2018  7:41




2.  According to Zeta, the location was 15 clicks south-west of Ejido Uruapan, no mention of the Pacific Coast:

Destruye Ejercito 4 Hectareas de Amapola en Ensenada
Por, Marco A. Flores - 04/17/18 4:03 pm

**********

Rosarito......

  - In colonia Los Volcanes the badly decomposed body of a man located, parts had been eaten by animals, bound hands and feet:

Frontera - 04/15/18 6:15pm
Localizan Cadaver de Hombre en Rosarito
Por, Carmen Gutierrez


 - Down the road, the bodies of three men with signs of visible violence tossed on the Scenic Highway close to the Convention Center:

Zeta - 04/17/18  11:07am
Tres Acribillados en Playas de Rosarito

********** 

Trump.....

Good one from Counterpunch :

Ruling Class Operatives Say the Darndest Things: On Devils Known and Not
By, Paul Street


Just about everything Donald here from Democracy Now !

Same with Syria.

Good ones from Louis Proyect. 

Of course, The Intercept. 




And finally, a song for Melania Trump :


See ya'll later !

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Stormy ! March Executions Tijuana 184 - Baja California YTD Execution Total 710 - Attacks on Municipal Police in Tijuana and the Ejercito in Tecate - Trump Is For Sure Melting Down !

We have had about a zillion mini-emergencies around here for the past weeks, but I am back.  The plumbing and pila were problematic to the extreme requiring replacements of lines under the house and a new pila pump; I had to buy a new stove which meant comparing the ones at the Home Depot here and the Home Depot in the States, I even consulted Consumer Reports. Ended up buying an LG Convection in the States and despite having to pay the IVA, this stove is fantastic.


Paris was/is sick with what we were told was bacterial conjuntivitis, so for days I have been washing and sanitizing everything from the roof to the floors, blankets, quilts, pillows, towels and Mike applying an ointment to her eyes which she hated.  Her condition did not improve for several days so we took her up to the VCA today to the eye clinic and learned this wasn't conjuctivitis, it is called "Blepharitis" which requires another treatment, different medication and follow up appointment in two weeks.  Meanwhile,  Bob the Daca cat is angry because thinking (because that is what I was told) this was highly contagious I was separating the two.  In fact, they were both pissed off at me.  I'll reward Bob tonight with some sardines in H20.


But through it all we have been keeping up with the Trump Meltdown !  As far as the local executions it is still outrageous and brutal, at the end of last month the news sources were reporting there had been 150-151 executed during the month of March in Tijuana.  At the end of the first week of this month however, the official count was 184 executed in TIJ (Baja itself is up to over 700 executions since the beginning of the year.). I will come back later tonight and update those with the local reports including the several attacks on Municipal Police Officers and their units and a rundown on Semana Santa in our area.  Still smelling sewage at SADM, and it sure looks like AMLO is at 42.7 % overall favored candidate, leading Ricardo Anaya (PAN) by 11 points.

UPDATE/Edit:  Here are those stats:


03/31/18 - 12:00pm:

Zeta reports crime increases by 57 % in 2018 as compared to the same time frame last year.  In 86 days, 517 people have been executed in Tijuana, 52 of those are women.  State level at this point stands at 651 homicides. These are figures from the PGJE.

Por Drogas, el 30 Por ciento de Los Homicidios en Mexicali



04/02/18 - 2:22PM:

Patricia Tamayo reports the official PGJE's number of executions in Tijuana for the month of March at 184 bringing the YTD total for the city to 549.

Zeta
Cierra Marzo con 184 Homicidios en Tijuana

04/06/18 - 2:26pm:

A summary of the YTD execution totals:

Tijuana - 560
Ensenada - 59
Mexicali - 47
Rosarito - 24
Tecate - 20
BC Total - 710

Zeta
Crimenes en BC Ascienden a 710 en 2018 

04/10/2018 - 8:29am:

For this month of April so far, Angel F. Gonzalez reports the latest executions and stats from the PGJE; at this point in April there have been 39 executions in Tijuana:

Frontera
Ola Homicida Cobra 3 Vidas

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There has been a series of attacks on the authorities, we'll work back:

04/10/18 - 5:35am

Tecate/El Hongo:   Zeta reports at Rancho Santa Veronica 04/09 @ 7:50pm Sedena requests backup when gunmen aboard two trucks open fire on them; witnesses say the gunfire lasted for at least fifteen minutes.  Officials report no Army personnel were injured, but several of the gunmen were hit yet escaped:

Enfrentamiento entre Militares y Grupo Armado en El Hongo, Deja Delincuentes Heridos 


The search for the attackers continues involving Army, Marinos, State Police and Federal Police.  No arrests have been made however containers of gasoline amounting to 2,500 liters of stolen fuel was found along with 16 cartridges from a Winchester and a cartridge for a caliber 5.57, same as was used in the attack on the Army. Officials believe they are dealing with a band of "Huachicoleros" (gas thieves).

Huachicoleros, Los Atacantes a Militares en El Hongo
por, Isai Lara Bermudez

04/03/18 - 7:45am

Tijuana:  Two attacks on Municipal Police; the first was on Juan Luis Villa Real Ruiz, off duty but working as a Commercial unarmed officer at Villas Del Prado in the guard station.  His condition is reported to be serious.  The second attack was on Municipal Police officers in Villas del Alamo.  No injuries to the officers, but the assailant is injured and later dies.

Frontera
Policias Municipales Son Banco de Sendos Ataques Con Armas
por, Angel F. Gonzalez


03/29/18 - 8:18am

Tijuana: Municipal Police attacked in two separate events, there were arrests:

Frontera
Atacan a Tiros a Policias en 2 Sitios Distintos
por, Luis Gerardo Andrade


03/29/18 - 8:18am:

Ensenada:  Municipal Police Commander Pablo Granados attacked on duty and onboard his unit with gunfire in Valle Verde.  Zeta notes that since March of last year, agents of ensenada have been attacked by gunfire several times with the balance of three dead and several injured.

Zeta
Atacan a Balazos a Policia de Ensenada 
por, Mario A. Flores


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Rosarito Beach was crowded over Semana Santa, but there weren't any white people around.


**********


Briefly, here is one of my most fave writers on the latest Trump disasters:




From Counterpunch:

Hill and Don's Honduran Caravan

by, Paul Street - 04/06/2018

 Two Right-Wing Coups in the Americas

" You’ve got to hand it to Hillary Clinton.

 In 2016, she helped put the right-wing racist, sexist, nativist, authoritarian, and nationalist oligarch Donald Trump in the White House. She and her operatives did this in two ways: (1) by rigging the presidential primaries against the popular progressive Democrat Bernie Sanders, the Democrats’ best chance to prevail over Trump; (2) by mounting a dreadfully uninspiring and transparently tone-deaf, neoliberal general election campaign – a reflection of her massive funding by the nation’s corporate and financial establishment, including big business money normally slated for Republican presidential candidates.

 It was the second time in seven-and-a-half years that Hillary had helped install an authoritarian, racist, oligarchic and right-wing government in the Americas. In the spring of 2009, she had used her position as Barack Obama’s first Secretary of State to help the right-wing Honduran military and business class overthrow the democratically elected government of Honduras’s then president Manuel Zelaya. Mrs. Clinton did this because she was a right-wing corporate and imperial Democrat who naturally opposed Zelaya’s shift to the populist left. She was irritated by his opposition to the United States-led so-called War on Drugs. She did not like his call for the United States’ large Honduran Air Force base to be turned into a civilian airport. She hated his movement toward alliance and cooperation with left-populist governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. She disdained Zelaya’s efforts to overcome the interrelated problems of Honduran poverty, Honduran inequality, and Honduras’s long neocolonial subordination to Washington.

 With the approval of Mrs. Clinton and her boss Obama, the Honduran military seized Zelaya at gunpoint and exiled him to Costa Rica in his pajamas. After the coup, sold on preposterously false legal and constitutional grounds for which Hillary provided political cover, the new Honduran regime staged a rigged election that placed the clownish, racist, and right-wing landowner Porfirio “Pepe Lobo Sosa” in the Honduran presidency. Madame Secretary Clinton hailed this farce as a “free, fair, and democratic election with a peaceful transition of power.” Never mind that the election proceeded amidst interim coup president Roberto Micheletti’s suspension of basic civil liberties and in a climate of harsh police-state intimidation. Later, as Diana Johnstone noted in her book Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton, “The governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela refused to recognize the result, but Washington was content…President Lobo described his regime as a ‘government of national reconciliation.’ Hillary Clinton [deplorably] praised it as a ‘resumption of democratic and constitutional government.’”

 The results were not pretty: murderous paramilitary repression of peasants, workers, trade unionists, feminists, and intellectuals; a deepening of mass poverty; assassinations of opposition candidates; expanded corruption and gang violence; “social cleansing” of poor children; a massive flight of unaccompanied minors to Mexico and the U.S. in 2014. And the purported “children’s advocate” Hillary Clinton called for the closing of U.S. borders to thousands of children fleeing the vicious regime she helped impose on Honduras. As the Central American child migrant crisis became front-page news in the summer of 2014, Hillary called for most of the tens of thousands of children and teenagers seeking refuge to be sent back to the miserable conditions they had fled in their home countries. “We have to send a clear message,” Clinton deplorably told a CNN town hall: “just because your child gets across the border doesn’t mean your child gets to stay.” So what if half or more of the kids showing up at U.S. border could have qualified for humanitarian protection under international and US law?

 Never Mind: “The Caravans are Coming!

 Here we are nine years after the U.S.-backed overthrow of Zelaya. The newly emboldened “America First” nationalist Donald Trump has just this week warned the U.S. citizenry to watch out for criminal and asylum-seeking Central American hordes. “The Caravans are coming,” El Donito Tweeted at the start of the week. He fretted about how “our country is being stolen” by illegal immigration, blaming Democrats for feckless border policies and urging Mexico to bar “these large ‘Caravans’ of people.”

 The Great God Trump saw it on FOX News: a marching mass of Central Americans approaching to “take advantage of DACA” and “our weak border security.” The brown-skinned horde wants, Trump claimed, to exploit “liberal [Democrat] laws like Catch and Release.”

 This, Trump said, is why we need a big beautiful border Wall – to block evil marauders like these caravan creeps before they bring their devilish drugs and criminality to stop Hair Fuhrer from “Making America Great Again.”

 Since the Democrats have blocked the Wall, Trump said, “DACA is dead,” and the U.S. military will have to be deployed to secure the border. It’s time to take a stand!

 Never mind that Mexico and Central America are parts of “America” too – and that people from south of the U.S. border are Americans who also want to live “great” lives, or at least to get away from crushing terror and poverty. Never mind that the “large caravan” Trump thinks he saw on FOX News will probably number 700 people or less by the time it reaches northern Mexico – if it ever does (Subsequent reports indicate that the caravan will stop south of Mexico City).

 Forget the moronic nature of the idea that anyone would enter the U.S. in 2018 to “take advantage of DACA,” a federal policy that applies only to immigrant children brought to the country by undocumented parents before 2007.

 Forget how sadistic it is for the orange-tinted beast to make Dreamers’ chances of remaining in the only country they know as home depend on Congress’s willingness to back a racist Wall most of the U.S. population rejects.

 Forget that it was a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who started building a physical wall on the U.S. southern border, in anticipation of the flood of Mexican migrants expected to result from the North American Free Trade Agreement’s devastating impact on Mexican farmers.

 Forget that there’s no “catch and release” edicts in U.S. immigration law. Forget that very few among the 1200 or so Central American migrants travelling in what is now an annual Easter time caravan through Mexico have any intention of seeking asylum in the U.S. (As KCUR radio reported three days ago, “The annual event organized by activists” is “designed to keep migrants safe and share information about their rights” inside Mexico.)

 Forget that the number of “illegal immigrants” caught at the U.S. border (310,000 last year, down from a peak of 1.6 million in 2000) is currently at its lowest level since 1971.

 Forget that the Caravan marchers are running away from drug violence and organized crime, among other scourges, in countries that have been ravaged by U.S. policy (including U.S. foreign, political, economic, military, drug, and climate policy) for decades.

 “Fuera JOH”

 Put all that Trumpian madness aside for a moment and reflect on Hillary and the Obama administration’s role in generating the annual ragged and desperate march of deeply impoverished Central Americans through Mexico. Most of the caravan participants that Washington’s Orange Dotard railed against are Hondurans fleeing repression, violence, and extreme poverty imposed by a right-wing regime Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama helped put in place in the spring of 2009 – a government the U.S. has funded and equipped ever since.

Organized caravans of largely Honduran Central American migrants have been marching across Mexico since 2010. Why since that year? Primarily because of the U.S-backed Honduran coup, which unleashed mass violence against ordinary Hondurans and Honduran activists.

The repression continues through the present, seen in “the violent [Honduran] suppression of political protests that erupted after last year’s presidential election” (New York Times, April 2, 2018) – more bloody cruelty from the malicious regime Hillary aided and abetted nine years ago. The 2017 Honduran election was transparently rigged to keep the military coup regime in power. That’s why many of the caravan marchers can be heard chanting “Fuera JOH” (“Out JOH”) a reference to the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernández, whose right wing National Party fixed the vote in his favor. The Trump administration nonetheless immediately recognized the results as legitimate, waiving off calls to cut off U.S. military and economic assistance to the Honduran government on human rights grounds – this while the Honduran military imposed a national curfew and a state of emergency.

 Playing to the Amerikaner Roseanne Base

 Why did Trump go ape-shit over the caravan this week? Because his favorite white nationalist television network has been highlighting the mass march and thanks to political calculations leading up to the mid-term elections this year. As the New York Times reports: “Stung by a backlash from his conservative supporters [e.g, the sallow neo-Nazi Anne Coulter] over his embrace of a trillion-dollar-plus spending measure that did not fund his promised border wall, and lacking a legislative initiative to champion with the approach of midterm congressional elections this fall, Mr. Trump has reverted to the aggressive anti-immigration messaging that powered his presidential campaign…”

 He’s playing to his basebase. He’s counting on its white-nationalist Amerikaner loyalty to the cult of Trump (with the revolting right-wing conspiracy nut and former progressive icon Roseanne Barr as a leading Kool Aid drinker) to combine with Republican gerrymandering, racist voter suppression, the reach of the vast right-wing media ecosphere (including the vast Sinclair broadcast network as well as FOX, right-wing talk radio, and Breitbart et al.), a tight job market, the frazzled electorate’s inability to follow Rachel Maddow and Robert Mueller’s (and Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s) endless and complex RussiaGate detective story, and the dismal and elitist nothingness of the neoliberal Democrats (the nation’s Inauthentic Opposition and Fake Resistance leaders) to keep Congress impeachment-proofed in 2019 and 2020.

 MoveOn and Off That Page

 Look for “liberal [Democrat]” pundits and politicos to deride Trump’s military deployment on the border while conveniently failing to mention that President Barack “Deporter-in-Chief” Obama sent 1,200 National Guardsmen (in “Operation Phalanx”) to patrol the southern border in 2010.

 It’s okay whenyourparty and president do nativist, nationalist, and other nasty things. It’s deplorable when presidents from the bad other of the only two electorally viable and (by the way) capitalist-imperialist U.S. political parties do those things. Which reminds me, are you concerned about Russian interference in U.S. politics? Here’s a curious passage you can expect “liberal [Democrat]” pundits and politicos to disregard in Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s new book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump:

 “The day after …Russian spies were arrested [on June 27, 2010], Bill Clinton arrived in Moscow to deliver the keynote speech at a conference sponsored by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment banking firm with links to the Kremlin. Clinton was paid a whopping $500,000 for his ninety-minute appearance, which drew an audience of top Russian government officials. Though his wife was secretary of state, the former president had not curbed his lucrative overseas speech-making, even when the gigs were underwritten by groups that might have interests before the State Department…In the case of Renaissance Capital, the firm at that time was promoting a stock offering of a company called Uranium One—a mining firm that controlled about 20 percent of uranium production capacity within the United States. And Russia’s nuclear agency, Rosatom, was in the process of purchasing a controlling interest in Uranium One, pending approval of a U.S. government foreign investment review board on which Hillary Clinton sat with eight other senior U.S. officials…Around the time of the Uranium One deal, the company chairman’s family foundation donated about $2.35 million to Clinton Foundation programs.”

 Huh. Oh well. Turn the page. Good Democrats know that all good Americans need to move on, I mean MoveOn, from that kind of Old News.

 I suppose we ought to be grateful to “liberal [Clinton Democrats]” Isikoff and Corn for honestly including that information in their new volume. I recall hearing Corn on National Public Radio when the big marches took place against the Inauguration of Trump. He didn’t think ragged anarchists, Marxists, and other suspect sorts who hadn’t been able to make themselves vote for the “lying neoliberal warmonger” (Adolph Reed, Jr’s accurate phrase, not Corn’s) and proud former Goldwater Girl Hillary Clinton had any right to be in the streets. That was like telling people that they couldn’t oppose the Gambino crime family if they didn’t openly support the Bonanno crime family.

 I wonder: if Hillary had run a better campaign and fended off the Trump-Steve Bannon-Robert Mercer-Sheldon Adelson assault in the late summer and fall of 2016, would a Clinton45 presidency now be facing Congressional inquiries into its ugly Russian entanglements while monitoring caravan movements driven by the ugly regime Mrs. Clinton helped create in Tegucigalpa in 2009?

 Single-Payer Caravan to Canada?

 I would roll out a welcome mat to any Central American caravans who make it to the U.S. upper Midwest. Perhaps I would ask them to accompany me on a trek to Canada, home to the single-payer national health insurance that most U.S.-Americans want and deserve. That’s the insurance system Harvard medical professor David Himmelstein, head of Physicians for a National Health Program, tried to tell First Lady Hillary Clinton about when she headed the White House’s health reform initiative in 1993. Himmelstein related the remarkable possibilities of a comprehensive, single-payer “Canadian-style” health plan, supported by more than two-thirds of the U.S. public. Beyond backing by a citizen super-majority, Himmelstein noted, single-payer would provide comprehensive coverage to the nation’s 40 million uninsured while retaining free choice in doctor selection and being certified by the Congressional Budget Office as “the most cost-effective plan on offer.”

 Hillary responded by dismissing Himmelstein with a weary and exasperated comment: “David, tell me something interesting.” There was no dishonesty in Hillary’s remark. Consistent with her neoliberal world view, she really was bored and irritated by Himmelstein’s pitch. Along with the big insurance companies they deceptively railed against, the Clintons decided from the start to exclude the popular, social-democratic health insurance alternative (single-payer) from the national health care “discussion.” (Obama would do the exact same thing in 2009.) What the First Lady deplorably advanced instead of the Canadian system that bored her was a hopelessly complex, secretly developed and corporatist system called “managed competition.”

 We have our own oligarchs in the United States – and a richly bipartisan permanent political class dedicated to serving those oligarchs. Maye we should start a caravan, if we’re not too busy working multiple low-wage jobs in the “booming” economy owned and operating for the United States’ corporate oligarchy."

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So, we wait to hear what Governor Jerry Brown will do - will he or won't he deploy the California National Guard to the Border?  I heard he was going to deploy and release at least a thousand Corgis armed with Rocky Mountain Wolf Biscuits !


Stormy ! March Executions Tijuana 184 - Baja California YTD Execution Total 710 - Attacks on Municipal Police in Tijuana and the Ejercito in Tecate - Trump Is For Sure Melting Down !

We have had about a zillion mini-emergencies around here for the past weeks, but I am back.  The plumbing and pila were problematic to the extreme requiring replacements of lines under the house and a new pila pump; I had to buy a new stove which meant comparing the ones at the Home Depot here and the Home Depot in the States, I even consulted Consumer Reports. Ended up buying an LG Convection in the States and despite having to pay the IVA, this stove is fantastic.


Paris was/is sick with what we were told was bacterial conjuntivitis, so for days I have been washing and sanitizing everything from the roof to the floors, blankets, quilts, pillows, towels and Mike applying an ointment to her eyes which she hated.  Her condition did not improve for several days so we took her up to the VCA today to the eye clinic and learned this wasn't conjuctivitis, it is called "Blepharitis" which requires another treatment, different medication and follow up appointment in two weeks.  Meanwhile,  Bob the Daca cat is angry because thinking (because that is what I was told) this was highly contagious I was separating the two.  In fact, they were both pissed off at me.  I'll reward Bob tonight with some sardines in H20.


But through it all we have been keeping up with the Trump Meltdown !  As far as the local executions it is still outrageous and brutal, at the end of last month the news sources were reporting there had been 150-151 executed during the month of March in Tijuana.  At the end of the first week of this month however, the official count was 184 executed in TIJ (Baja itself is up to over 700 executions since the beginning of the year.). I will come back later tonight and update those with the local reports including the several attacks on Municipal Police Officers and their units and a rundown on Semana Santa in our area.  Still smelling sewage at SADM, and it sure looks like AMLO is at 42.7 % overall favored candidate, leading Ricardo Anaya (PAN) by 11 points.

UPDATE/Edit:  Here are those stats:


03/31/18 - 12:00pm:

Zeta reports crime increases by 57 % in 2018 as compared to the same time frame last year.  In 86 days, 517 people have been executed in Tijuana, 52 of those are women.  State level at this point stands at 651 homicides. These are figures from the PGJE.

Por Drogas, el 30 Por ciento de Los Homicidios en Mexicali



04/02/18 - 2:22PM:

Patricia Tamayo reports the official PGJE's number of executions in Tijuana for the month of March at 184 bringing the YTD total for the city to 549.

Zeta
Cierra Marzo con 184 Homicidios en Tijuana

04/06/18 - 2:26pm:

A summary of the YTD execution totals:

Tijuana - 560
Ensenada - 59
Mexicali - 47
Rosarito - 24
Tecate - 20
BC Total - 710

Zeta
Crimenes en BC Ascienden a 710 en 2018 

04/10/2018 - 8:29am:

For this month of April so far, Angel F. Gonzalez reports the latest executions and stats from the PGJE; at this point in April there have been 39 executions in Tijuana:

Frontera
Ola Homicida Cobra 3 Vidas

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There has been a series of attacks on the authorities, we'll work back:

04/10/18 - 5:35am

Tecate/El Hongo:   Zeta reports at Rancho Santa Veronica 04/09 @ 7:50pm Sedena requests backup when gunmen aboard two trucks open fire on them; witnesses say the gunfire lasted for at least fifteen minutes.  Officials report no Army personnel were injured, but several of the gunmen were hit yet escaped:

Enfrentamiento entre Militares y Grupo Armado en El Hongo, Deja Delincuentes Heridos 


The search for the attackers continues involving Army, Marinos, State Police and Federal Police.  No arrests have been made however containers of gasoline amounting to 2,500 liters of stolen fuel was found along with 16 cartridges from a Winchester and a cartridge for a caliber 5.57, same as was used in the attack on the Army. Officials believe they are dealing with a band of "Huachicoleros" (gas thieves).

Huachicoleros, Los Atacantes a Militares en El Hongo
por, Isai Lara Bermudez

04/03/18 - 7:45am

Tijuana:  Two attacks on Municipal Police; the first was on Juan Luis Villa Real Ruiz, off duty but working as a Commercial unarmed officer at Villas Del Prado in the guard station.  His condition is reported to be serious.  The second attack was on Municipal Police officers in Villas del Alamo.  No injuries to the officers, but the assailant is injured and later dies.

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Policias Municipales Son Banco de Sendos Ataques Con Armas
por, Angel F. Gonzalez


03/29/18 - 8:18am

Tijuana: Municipal Police attacked in two separate events, there were arrests:

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Atacan a Tiros a Policias en 2 Sitios Distintos
por, Luis Gerardo Andrade


03/29/18 - 8:18am:

Ensenada:  Municipal Police Commander Pablo Granados attacked on duty and onboard his unit with gunfire in Valle Verde.  Zeta notes that since March of last year, agents of ensenada have been attacked by gunfire several times with the balance of three dead and several injured.

Zeta
Atacan a Balazos a Policia de Ensenada 
por, Mario A. Flores


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Rosarito Beach was crowded over Semana Santa, but there weren't any white people around.


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Briefly, here is one of my most fave writers on the latest Trump disasters:




From Counterpunch:

Hill and Don's Honduran Caravan

by, Paul Street - 04/06/2018

 Two Right-Wing Coups in the Americas

" You’ve got to hand it to Hillary Clinton.

 In 2016, she helped put the right-wing racist, sexist, nativist, authoritarian, and nationalist oligarch Donald Trump in the White House. She and her operatives did this in two ways: (1) by rigging the presidential primaries against the popular progressive Democrat Bernie Sanders, the Democrats’ best chance to prevail over Trump; (2) by mounting a dreadfully uninspiring and transparently tone-deaf, neoliberal general election campaign – a reflection of her massive funding by the nation’s corporate and financial establishment, including big business money normally slated for Republican presidential candidates.

 It was the second time in seven-and-a-half years that Hillary had helped install an authoritarian, racist, oligarchic and right-wing government in the Americas. In the spring of 2009, she had used her position as Barack Obama’s first Secretary of State to help the right-wing Honduran military and business class overthrow the democratically elected government of Honduras’s then president Manuel Zelaya. Mrs. Clinton did this because she was a right-wing corporate and imperial Democrat who naturally opposed Zelaya’s shift to the populist left. She was irritated by his opposition to the United States-led so-called War on Drugs. She did not like his call for the United States’ large Honduran Air Force base to be turned into a civilian airport. She hated his movement toward alliance and cooperation with left-populist governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador. She disdained Zelaya’s efforts to overcome the interrelated problems of Honduran poverty, Honduran inequality, and Honduras’s long neocolonial subordination to Washington.

 With the approval of Mrs. Clinton and her boss Obama, the Honduran military seized Zelaya at gunpoint and exiled him to Costa Rica in his pajamas. After the coup, sold on preposterously false legal and constitutional grounds for which Hillary provided political cover, the new Honduran regime staged a rigged election that placed the clownish, racist, and right-wing landowner Porfirio “Pepe Lobo Sosa” in the Honduran presidency. Madame Secretary Clinton hailed this farce as a “free, fair, and democratic election with a peaceful transition of power.” Never mind that the election proceeded amidst interim coup president Roberto Micheletti’s suspension of basic civil liberties and in a climate of harsh police-state intimidation. Later, as Diana Johnstone noted in her book Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton, “The governments of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela refused to recognize the result, but Washington was content…President Lobo described his regime as a ‘government of national reconciliation.’ Hillary Clinton [deplorably] praised it as a ‘resumption of democratic and constitutional government.’”

 The results were not pretty: murderous paramilitary repression of peasants, workers, trade unionists, feminists, and intellectuals; a deepening of mass poverty; assassinations of opposition candidates; expanded corruption and gang violence; “social cleansing” of poor children; a massive flight of unaccompanied minors to Mexico and the U.S. in 2014. And the purported “children’s advocate” Hillary Clinton called for the closing of U.S. borders to thousands of children fleeing the vicious regime she helped impose on Honduras. As the Central American child migrant crisis became front-page news in the summer of 2014, Hillary called for most of the tens of thousands of children and teenagers seeking refuge to be sent back to the miserable conditions they had fled in their home countries. “We have to send a clear message,” Clinton deplorably told a CNN town hall: “just because your child gets across the border doesn’t mean your child gets to stay.” So what if half or more of the kids showing up at U.S. border could have qualified for humanitarian protection under international and US law?

 Never Mind: “The Caravans are Coming!

 Here we are nine years after the U.S.-backed overthrow of Zelaya. The newly emboldened “America First” nationalist Donald Trump has just this week warned the U.S. citizenry to watch out for criminal and asylum-seeking Central American hordes. “The Caravans are coming,” El Donito Tweeted at the start of the week. He fretted about how “our country is being stolen” by illegal immigration, blaming Democrats for feckless border policies and urging Mexico to bar “these large ‘Caravans’ of people.”

 The Great God Trump saw it on FOX News: a marching mass of Central Americans approaching to “take advantage of DACA” and “our weak border security.” The brown-skinned horde wants, Trump claimed, to exploit “liberal [Democrat] laws like Catch and Release.”

 This, Trump said, is why we need a big beautiful border Wall – to block evil marauders like these caravan creeps before they bring their devilish drugs and criminality to stop Hair Fuhrer from “Making America Great Again.”

 Since the Democrats have blocked the Wall, Trump said, “DACA is dead,” and the U.S. military will have to be deployed to secure the border. It’s time to take a stand!

 Never mind that Mexico and Central America are parts of “America” too – and that people from south of the U.S. border are Americans who also want to live “great” lives, or at least to get away from crushing terror and poverty. Never mind that the “large caravan” Trump thinks he saw on FOX News will probably number 700 people or less by the time it reaches northern Mexico – if it ever does (Subsequent reports indicate that the caravan will stop south of Mexico City).

 Forget the moronic nature of the idea that anyone would enter the U.S. in 2018 to “take advantage of DACA,” a federal policy that applies only to immigrant children brought to the country by undocumented parents before 2007.

 Forget how sadistic it is for the orange-tinted beast to make Dreamers’ chances of remaining in the only country they know as home depend on Congress’s willingness to back a racist Wall most of the U.S. population rejects.

 Forget that it was a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who started building a physical wall on the U.S. southern border, in anticipation of the flood of Mexican migrants expected to result from the North American Free Trade Agreement’s devastating impact on Mexican farmers.

 Forget that there’s no “catch and release” edicts in U.S. immigration law. Forget that very few among the 1200 or so Central American migrants travelling in what is now an annual Easter time caravan through Mexico have any intention of seeking asylum in the U.S. (As KCUR radio reported three days ago, “The annual event organized by activists” is “designed to keep migrants safe and share information about their rights” inside Mexico.)

 Forget that the number of “illegal immigrants” caught at the U.S. border (310,000 last year, down from a peak of 1.6 million in 2000) is currently at its lowest level since 1971.

 Forget that the Caravan marchers are running away from drug violence and organized crime, among other scourges, in countries that have been ravaged by U.S. policy (including U.S. foreign, political, economic, military, drug, and climate policy) for decades.

 “Fuera JOH”

 Put all that Trumpian madness aside for a moment and reflect on Hillary and the Obama administration’s role in generating the annual ragged and desperate march of deeply impoverished Central Americans through Mexico. Most of the caravan participants that Washington’s Orange Dotard railed against are Hondurans fleeing repression, violence, and extreme poverty imposed by a right-wing regime Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama helped put in place in the spring of 2009 – a government the U.S. has funded and equipped ever since.

Organized caravans of largely Honduran Central American migrants have been marching across Mexico since 2010. Why since that year? Primarily because of the U.S-backed Honduran coup, which unleashed mass violence against ordinary Hondurans and Honduran activists.

The repression continues through the present, seen in “the violent [Honduran] suppression of political protests that erupted after last year’s presidential election” (New York Times, April 2, 2018) – more bloody cruelty from the malicious regime Hillary aided and abetted nine years ago. The 2017 Honduran election was transparently rigged to keep the military coup regime in power. That’s why many of the caravan marchers can be heard chanting “Fuera JOH” (“Out JOH”) a reference to the incumbent president, Juan Orlando Hernández, whose right wing National Party fixed the vote in his favor. The Trump administration nonetheless immediately recognized the results as legitimate, waiving off calls to cut off U.S. military and economic assistance to the Honduran government on human rights grounds – this while the Honduran military imposed a national curfew and a state of emergency.

 Playing to the Amerikaner Roseanne Base

 Why did Trump go ape-shit over the caravan this week? Because his favorite white nationalist television network has been highlighting the mass march and thanks to political calculations leading up to the mid-term elections this year. As the New York Times reports: “Stung by a backlash from his conservative supporters [e.g, the sallow neo-Nazi Anne Coulter] over his embrace of a trillion-dollar-plus spending measure that did not fund his promised border wall, and lacking a legislative initiative to champion with the approach of midterm congressional elections this fall, Mr. Trump has reverted to the aggressive anti-immigration messaging that powered his presidential campaign…”

 He’s playing to his basebase. He’s counting on its white-nationalist Amerikaner loyalty to the cult of Trump (with the revolting right-wing conspiracy nut and former progressive icon Roseanne Barr as a leading Kool Aid drinker) to combine with Republican gerrymandering, racist voter suppression, the reach of the vast right-wing media ecosphere (including the vast Sinclair broadcast network as well as FOX, right-wing talk radio, and Breitbart et al.), a tight job market, the frazzled electorate’s inability to follow Rachel Maddow and Robert Mueller’s (and Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s) endless and complex RussiaGate detective story, and the dismal and elitist nothingness of the neoliberal Democrats (the nation’s Inauthentic Opposition and Fake Resistance leaders) to keep Congress impeachment-proofed in 2019 and 2020.

 MoveOn and Off That Page

 Look for “liberal [Democrat]” pundits and politicos to deride Trump’s military deployment on the border while conveniently failing to mention that President Barack “Deporter-in-Chief” Obama sent 1,200 National Guardsmen (in “Operation Phalanx”) to patrol the southern border in 2010.

 It’s okay whenyourparty and president do nativist, nationalist, and other nasty things. It’s deplorable when presidents from the bad other of the only two electorally viable and (by the way) capitalist-imperialist U.S. political parties do those things. Which reminds me, are you concerned about Russian interference in U.S. politics? Here’s a curious passage you can expect “liberal [Democrat]” pundits and politicos to disregard in Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s new book Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump:

 “The day after …Russian spies were arrested [on June 27, 2010], Bill Clinton arrived in Moscow to deliver the keynote speech at a conference sponsored by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment banking firm with links to the Kremlin. Clinton was paid a whopping $500,000 for his ninety-minute appearance, which drew an audience of top Russian government officials. Though his wife was secretary of state, the former president had not curbed his lucrative overseas speech-making, even when the gigs were underwritten by groups that might have interests before the State Department…In the case of Renaissance Capital, the firm at that time was promoting a stock offering of a company called Uranium One—a mining firm that controlled about 20 percent of uranium production capacity within the United States. And Russia’s nuclear agency, Rosatom, was in the process of purchasing a controlling interest in Uranium One, pending approval of a U.S. government foreign investment review board on which Hillary Clinton sat with eight other senior U.S. officials…Around the time of the Uranium One deal, the company chairman’s family foundation donated about $2.35 million to Clinton Foundation programs.”

 Huh. Oh well. Turn the page. Good Democrats know that all good Americans need to move on, I mean MoveOn, from that kind of Old News.

 I suppose we ought to be grateful to “liberal [Clinton Democrats]” Isikoff and Corn for honestly including that information in their new volume. I recall hearing Corn on National Public Radio when the big marches took place against the Inauguration of Trump. He didn’t think ragged anarchists, Marxists, and other suspect sorts who hadn’t been able to make themselves vote for the “lying neoliberal warmonger” (Adolph Reed, Jr’s accurate phrase, not Corn’s) and proud former Goldwater Girl Hillary Clinton had any right to be in the streets. That was like telling people that they couldn’t oppose the Gambino crime family if they didn’t openly support the Bonanno crime family.

 I wonder: if Hillary had run a better campaign and fended off the Trump-Steve Bannon-Robert Mercer-Sheldon Adelson assault in the late summer and fall of 2016, would a Clinton45 presidency now be facing Congressional inquiries into its ugly Russian entanglements while monitoring caravan movements driven by the ugly regime Mrs. Clinton helped create in Tegucigalpa in 2009?

 Single-Payer Caravan to Canada?

 I would roll out a welcome mat to any Central American caravans who make it to the U.S. upper Midwest. Perhaps I would ask them to accompany me on a trek to Canada, home to the single-payer national health insurance that most U.S.-Americans want and deserve. That’s the insurance system Harvard medical professor David Himmelstein, head of Physicians for a National Health Program, tried to tell First Lady Hillary Clinton about when she headed the White House’s health reform initiative in 1993. Himmelstein related the remarkable possibilities of a comprehensive, single-payer “Canadian-style” health plan, supported by more than two-thirds of the U.S. public. Beyond backing by a citizen super-majority, Himmelstein noted, single-payer would provide comprehensive coverage to the nation’s 40 million uninsured while retaining free choice in doctor selection and being certified by the Congressional Budget Office as “the most cost-effective plan on offer.”

 Hillary responded by dismissing Himmelstein with a weary and exasperated comment: “David, tell me something interesting.” There was no dishonesty in Hillary’s remark. Consistent with her neoliberal world view, she really was bored and irritated by Himmelstein’s pitch. Along with the big insurance companies they deceptively railed against, the Clintons decided from the start to exclude the popular, social-democratic health insurance alternative (single-payer) from the national health care “discussion.” (Obama would do the exact same thing in 2009.) What the First Lady deplorably advanced instead of the Canadian system that bored her was a hopelessly complex, secretly developed and corporatist system called “managed competition.”

 We have our own oligarchs in the United States – and a richly bipartisan permanent political class dedicated to serving those oligarchs. Maye we should start a caravan, if we’re not too busy working multiple low-wage jobs in the “booming” economy owned and operating for the United States’ corporate oligarchy."

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So, we wait to hear what Governor Jerry Brown will do - will he or won't he deploy the California National Guard to the Border?  I heard he was going to deploy and release at least a thousand Corgis armed with Rocky Mountain Wolf Biscuits !


Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Trump At El Muro (s) Today



The way I understand it, there have been chaotic secret squirrel preparations for the evil one's visit today.  Quite a few people are hoping the forecasted rain will turn torrential and hit a day earlier than predicted, making the entire area where the wall prototypes are located a muddy mess, thus ensuring mucho misery to the miserable Trump.

Normally when persons of high office are in or around town the executions slow down a bit, but not so this time.  Already this month in Tijuana there have been reported forty five and since that report I am counting seven more in Tijuana alone.  There have also been two armed attacks in the past three days on PEPO agents in TIJ, more executions in Ensenada (four in the past two days), Rosarito Beach (plus attacks on touristas at Popotla) and Tecate.  I promise to come back with more stats, just have been incredibly busy re-tiling the bathroom, ten thousand projects to go.  Paris and Bob are doing well !


Update/edit 03/13/18 @ 8:22 am:

Angel F. Gonzalez updates the Tijuana executions this morning to 56 so far this month, bringing the YTD total for the city @ 409: 

Frontera
Ejecutan a Mujer En Via Publica 

Por, Angel F. Gonzalez

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Meanwhile, in case you missed it...not exactly Counterpunch but well worth a read:


From The Washington Post - 03/09/18




Why I could no longer serve this president




John D. Feeley, who retired this week as a U.S. diplomat, will soon be working with Univision and the Fusion Media Group on immigration-themed content.
 




"Shortly after the Charlottesville riots last August, I made the private decision to step down as President Trump’s personal representative and ambassador to the government of Panama. The president’s failure to condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who provoked the violence made me realize that my values were not his values. I never meant for my decision to resign to be a public political statement. Sadly, it became one.


The details of how that happened are less important than the demoralizing take-away: When career public servants take an oath to communicate dissent only in protected channels, Trump administration officials do not protect that promise of privacy.


Leaking is not new in Washington. But leaking a sitting ambassador’s personal resignation letter to the president, as mine was, is something else. This was a painful indication that the current administration has little respect for those who have served the nation apolitically for decades.

Now that I am no longer oath-bound to support the president and his policies, several points warrant clarification. I did not resign over any policy decisions regarding my remit in Panama, or — as was incorrectly alleged in the media — due to the president’s denigrating comments about countries that participate in the visa diversity lottery. 


I resigned because the traditional core values of the United States, as manifested in the president’s National Security Strategy and his foreign policies, have been warped and betrayed. I could no longer represent him personally and remain faithful to my beliefs about what makes America truly great.


The amateurish promulgation of a country-specific travel ban, the push to build a “big, beautiful wall” and to expel the “dreamers” beyond it, the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the belligerent renegotiating of the North American Free Trade Agreement and counterproductive steel and aluminum tariffs are all making the United States weaker and less prosperous. America is undoubtedly less welcome in the world today, as the president pursues a unilateral and isolationist path.


These policies are purportedly being pursued to make good on nativist campaign rhetoric that resonated with many legitimately aggrieved Americans. But I know many of these voters. They are not “deplorables.” They deserve better. They deserve enlightened and informed debate about the true nature of the globalized economy, automation, and the need for education and reimagined job-skills programs to keep us competitive.


Instead, they are being offered the siren song of populist scapegoating of immigrants, jingoistic chest-beating and a schoolyard bully’s attitude that taunts: “I win, you lose.” In Davos, Switzerland, recently, the president claimed that “America is open for business.” From my years overseas, I know that few international shoppers go into the store if the shopkeeper is constantly belittling and berating them.


A part of my resignation letter that has not been quoted publicly reads: “I now return home, with no rank or title other than citizen, to continue my American journey.” What this means for me is still evolving.


As the grandson of migrant stock from New York City, an Eagle Scout, a Marine Corps veteran and someone who has spent his diplomatic career in Latin America, I am convinced that the president’s policies regarding migration are not only foolish and delusional but also anti-American.


Demonizing migrants may placate the few genuine racists in America, such as those who carried torches in Charlottesville. But those Americans constitute a sideshow minority, just as felons are only a tiny fraction of today’s hard-working migrants. Still, as someone who worked on southwest border policy for years, I get that simplistic slogans such as “Take Back the Border” may resonate among law-abiding Americans.


But immigration is never a binary proposition. Moreover, policy options based on fear and hashtags will only offer us a false dichotomy. And the immigration issue cannot be debated rationally when the president routinely encourages division and disparages today’s migrants with the same hateful language deployed a century ago to excoriate my Irish and Italian ancestors.


So, what does a private citizen do in the face of such wrenching polarization? I plan to speak to Americans and explore our nation’s fears and perceptions about the migration challenges we face. My goal is to create the conditions for respectful and nonconfrontational dialogue between supporters of the president’s immigration policy and the full panoply of migrants — from dreamers to day laborers, engineers to chambermaids, small business owners, artists and teachers.


We need to understand each other better. As someone who is fully and proudly American, and yet by life experience fully bilingual and bicultural, I will now do my best to help. Where the president seeks to build a wall, I seek to build a bridge. I now return to the United States of e pluribus unum. I am confident that we can heal the polarization that afflicts us — one conversation at a time."


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From Pocho - News Y Satire:

"The Mexican Standoff"


If I don't see ya'll before the end of the week, have a safe and Happy St. Patrick's Day !! **********