A continuation of events surrounding the drug war and related social issues of Baja California and Mexico. Keeping an eye on Seig Heil Trump. We are still trying to restore all blogs from 2006 which were hacked by Linton Robinson and his team, famous for supporting the Baja Trump Towers on one of his real estate sites. Highlights of Paris-Simone's favorite music !!
I haven't been covering the Mexican Presidential race at all - the reasons being that if you are a foreigner living here, by law you cannot be involved in Mexican politics and I'm still upset that the local coverage of Bernie Sanders actually mirrored the US Corporate/ MSM's coverage of Bernie; he was basically shunned and minimized. There was a clear option to the two US dangerous predators, but down here you would never have guessed it.
That's the way the cookie crumbles. None the less, tonight at 7:30 pm the second Mexican Presidential Debate airs from UABC, Tijuana so this is just a heads up. As you are probably already aware, Marguerite Zavala is out of the picture, there are four candidates remaining. Meanwhile, things are heating up close to UABC with two demonstrations in progress. One is sponsored by the Angeles Sin Fronteras led by Sergio Tamai drawing anti-Trump/Wall attention and calling on the Mexican candidates to address "The Wall."
They used to say that Rosarito was a hotbed of political activists, however these days it looks as though Mexicali takes the title. The Comunida Mexicali Resiste is the other group demonstrating. These people are completely anti- Governor Kiko, anti-Pena, they question why it is the local Law Enforcement defends the interests of the USA and not their own, and they want the release of Leon Fierro.
It would be fair to say that both groups are obviously anti-neo-liberal. Here is an interesting report on the Mexican Presidential Election 2018, keeping in mind this was written prior to Marguerite's pull out - and more interesting reports at the end of the article:
I haven't been covering the Mexican Presidential race at all - the reasons being that if you are a foreigner living here, by law you cannot be involved in Mexican politics and I'm still upset that the local coverage of Bernie Sanders actually mirrored the US Corporate/ MSM's coverage of Bernie; he was basically shunned and minimized. There was a clear option to the two US dangerous predators, but down here you would never have guessed it.
That's the way the cookie crumbles. None the less, tonight at 7:30 pm the second Mexican Presidential Debate airs from UABC, Tijuana so this is just a heads up. As you are probably already aware, Marguerite Zavala is out of the picture, there are four candidates remaining. Meanwhile, things are heating up close to UABC with two demonstrations in progress. One is sponsored by the Angeles Sin Fronteras led by Sergio Tamai drawing anti-Trump/Wall attention and calling on the Mexican candidates to address "The Wall."
They used to say that Rosarito was a hotbed of political activists, however these days it looks as though Mexicali takes the title. The Comunida Mexicali Resiste is the other group demonstrating. These people are completely anti- Governor Kiko, anti-Pena, they question why it is the local Law Enforcement defends the interests of the USA and not their own, and they want the release of Leon Fierro.
It would be fair to say that both groups are obviously anti-neo-liberal. Here is an interesting report on the Mexican Presidential Election 2018, keeping in mind this was written prior to Marguerite's pull out - and more interesting reports at the end of the article:
Before we left the house yesterday morning I was able to catch the headlines of the slaughter of the Palestinians at Gaza, yet no one was talking about this at the places we stopped at in the States. I noticed yesterday evening after we came home that there so far have been no editorials in the local Mexican press reporting the audacity of Trump's big opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem (or the collapse of the Iran nuclear Deal); well, at least Mexico did not participate in the event or send representatives to participate in the event.
So, Stormy is taking a backseat for time being - we are not laughing now, we are basically in shock. Here is one of the best reports I've seen so far:
- From open Democracy: (More good ones on their sidebar)
Short and sweet and to the point: "Instead of seeking peace, Trump provokes violence. He has dementia. He is a madman, to be for the others."
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After the 207 executions in Tijuana last month, I finally burned out and needed to take some time out. I kept wondering, how do the reporters down here do it ? Day after day, killing after killing, grinding away at the unspeakable which truly is not spoken about and never really addressed in the United States these days at all...which is just fine with the Tourist Industry, Speculators and the Real Estate Industry - who cares, right ?
So we started the third season of "The Durrells" and their lives on Corfu from 1935-1939 in all of its innocence, which reminds me so much of innocent times in Mexico when I was growing up. I'm not sure how this season will end, but the truth is I don't think it will end good for the Durrells, their little paradise eventually was ended by Hitler and the great Word War II - much the same as Mexico has been brought to her knees by the Great Failed Drug War completely supported by the US government.
A note on the Ejectometro: it will be down until after the debate.
Meanwhile in case you had not noticed, Frontera's front page has been running the latest execution stats for Tijuana with their "Ejectometro" - at this hour this month of May, we are up to 82 executions. (Zeta has a higher number) Check it out:
Before we left the house yesterday morning I was able to catch the headlines of the slaughter of the Palestinians at Gaza, yet no one was talking about this at the places we stopped at in the States. I noticed yesterday evening after we came home that there so far have been no editorials in the local Mexican press reporting the audacity of Trump's big opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem (or the collapse of the Iran nuclear Deal); well, at least Mexico did not participate in the event or send representatives to participate in the event.
So, Stormy is taking a backseat for time being - we are not laughing now, we are basically in shock. Here is one of the best reports I've seen so far:
- From open Democracy: (More good ones on their sidebar)
Short and sweet and to the point: "Instead of seeking peace, Trump provokes violence. He has dementia. He is a madman, to be for the others."
end edit.
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After the 207 executions in Tijuana last month, I finally burned out and needed to take some time out. I kept wondering, how do the reporters down here do it ? Day after day, killing after killing, grinding away at the unspeakable which truly is not spoken about and never really addressed in the United States these days at all...which is just fine with the Tourist Industry, Speculators and the Real Estate Industry - who cares, right ?
So we started the third season of "The Durrells" and their lives on Corfu from 1935-1939 in all of its innocence, which reminds me so much of innocent times in Mexico when I was growing up. I'm not sure how this season will end, but the truth is I don't think it will end good for the Durrells, their little paradise eventually was ended by Hitler and the great Word War II - much the same as Mexico has been brought to her knees by the Great Failed Drug War completely supported by the US government.
A note on the Ejectometro: it will be down until after the debate.
Meanwhile in case you had not noticed, Frontera's front page has been running the latest execution stats for Tijuana with their "Ejectometro" - at this hour this month of May, we are up to 82 executions. (Zeta has a higher number) Check it out:
I just can't let this one go...and, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of coverage of the Stormy Daniels-Trump affair in the local Mexican press. Plus, we need a lot of comic relief around here, especially after last month's total of executions in Tijuana at 207...which I will return to.
Also, a quick update on Paris and Bob: we are tapering back the prednisone for Paris, she is now on one and a half pills only once a day instead of twice a day then next week she will be on one and a half pills every other day. At that point and after the last week of pills, she returns to the VCA Eye Clinic. However, we did have another emergency. Last weekend I baked a chicken for Paris and Bob. After it cooked, I took it out of the pan and put it on a plate on the counter. When my back was turned for just a two seconds, she grabbed the chicken, I screamed, too late, she had devoured a drumstick. Mike rushed out of the shower while I was screaming and slipped. He's okay. We took her into VCA for x-rays; luckily no splinters showed up. Other than that episode, she is improving. Bob left his girlfriend he says, we didn't want to pry. The painting around here is going to take until doomsday to finish.
We all know Trump is a dirty old man, besides being a lunatic and a liar. Here are some of the best links and videos regarding the latest in the Stormy Daniels affair so far:
UPDATE/edit 05/05: Hilarious SNL "Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open" !! (Stormy Daniels appearance freaking outstanding) I can't believe Mexico is missing the boat on this one....oh well.... end edit ! (; **********
UPDATE/edit: Mexico did not miss the boat on this one (and others) at all !
I just can't let this one go...and, there doesn't seem to be a great deal of coverage of the Stormy Daniels-Trump affair in the local Mexican press. Plus, we need a lot of comic relief around here, especially after last month's total of executions in Tijuana at 207...which I will return to.
Also, a quick update on Paris and Bob: we are tapering back the prednisone for Paris, she is now on one and a half pills only once a day instead of twice a day then next week she will be on one and a half pills every other day. At that point and after the last week of pills, she returns to the VCA Eye Clinic. However, we did have another emergency. Last weekend I baked a chicken for Paris and Bob. After it cooked, I took it out of the pan and put it on a plate on the counter. When my back was turned for just a two seconds, she grabbed the chicken, I screamed, too late, she had devoured a drumstick. Mike rushed out of the shower while I was screaming and slipped. He's okay. We took her into VCA for x-rays; luckily no splinters showed up. Other than that episode, she is improving. Bob left his girlfriend he says, we didn't want to pry. The painting around here is going to take until doomsday to finish.
We all know Trump is a dirty old man, besides being a lunatic and a liar. Here are some of the best links and videos regarding the latest in the Stormy Daniels affair so far:
UPDATE/edit 05/05: Hilarious SNL "Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open" !! (Stormy Daniels appearance freaking outstanding) I can't believe Mexico is missing the boat on this one....oh well....
end edit ! (;
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UPDATE/edit: Mexico did not miss the boat on this one (and others) at all !
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
" 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
- 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:
"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."
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- 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:
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 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:
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
- 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:
