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The madwoman of San Blas wharf dies
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/sep/20/31879/ Rebeca Méndez Jiménez, whose love story inspired the celebrated song from the group Maná "En el muelle de San Blas" ["On the San Blas Wharf"], died at the age of 63 in Monterrey early Sunday morning on September 16. …
Misbehaving Tijuana Police
Two federal police arrested in Tijuana for extortion TIJUANA September 17, 2012 - Two Federal Policemen are under arrest for extorting a resident of colonia Castillo, from whom they demanded $5,000 dollars in return for not "planting" drugs on her. …
Mexico's federal attorney general investigates its own air fleet for drug trafficking
[Translated and summarized by Fulano from an article in La Jornada] The discovery of serious irregularities in the operation of the air fleet belonging to the Mexican federal Attorney General's Office, including suspicion that some airplanes have been used to …
Tijuana has a serious problem with pimps
Translated by Fulano from a news article in Uniradioinforma.com The problem along the Mexican border with the sexual exploitation of women is increasing now that the authorities do nothing to recover the young girls who are taken by human traffickers, …
Rosarito Tourism Commission says US alert on Mexico travel is all a ploy
[Translated by Fulano from an article in El Sol de Tijuana.] Playas de Rosarito.- The Tourism Commission of the Rosarito city council believes that the security alert on Mexico, issued by the United States government, is a strategy to prevent …
Mexicans warned on parasites
At the national level, 7 out of 10 persons in Mexico have parasites, although in the Northern region of Mexico the statistics are 4 out of 10, there continues to be a high incidence of this disease and people are …
Mexico vacationers swim at highly contaminated beaches
Mexico City - The beaches of Veracruz, Acapulco, Zihuatanejo, Puerto Vallarta, Bahía de Banderas and Compostela are registering elevated levels of contamination this vacation season. In 22 out of 29 tourist destination beaches where the Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry …
Security Message For U.S. Citizens on Puerto Peñasco, Sonora
July 31, 2012 This Security Message has been issued to encourage U.S. citizens traveling to and residing in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) to use caution while conducting business or leisure activities within the city and the surrounding region. In recent …
200 Taxi drivers march in protest in Rosarito
Wait until you find out why they are protesting. Around 200 transportation workers marched on the main street of Playas de Rosarito Tuesday morning to urge the removal of the recently named police chief, Francisco Castro Trenti, who is accused …
The name "Tijuana" is trademarked, says governor of Baja California
[Translated by Fulano from an article in the July 5, 2012 issue of Frontera, a Tijuana newspaper.] Whomever uses the name of Tijuana for soap operas, movies or songs could be sued because the name is protected, said José Guadalupe …
Mexicans living outside of Mexico vote differently
The results of the Mexican presidential elections held yesterday were significantly different than the polls going into the election. The last poll going into the elections showed the PRI candidate, Enrique Peña Nieto, with a 15% point lead. The almost …
Rancho in Baja California Sur enslaves laborers
[Translated from an article in "La Jornada de Oriente" by Fulano.] Laborers from Veracruz, Mexico reported that they were victims of a human trafficking network that kept them in captivity on a ranch named "El Piloto," in Baja California Sur, …
The Precise Location of Desolation Row
Duluth, Minnesota. Desolation Row is in Duluth, Minnesota. On June 15, 1920, Duluth police arrested several young black men accused of raping a white woman. That evening, three of them – Elias Clayton, Elmer Jackson, and Isaac McGhie – are …
Burning Jews in Mexico
One quaint Mexican town in the area of Ocozocoautla de Espinosa, Chiapas has an unusual Easter tradition: The Burning of the Jews. While other Mexican states find other ways to celebrate Easter, such as the burning of "boredom" or "bad …
Official corruption surrounds the death of American Val Robichaux in Mexico
On April 11, 2012, while training for the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic in Colorado, American Val Robichaux lost his life in an accident on the old coastal highway in Cozumel, Mexico. The official version given by the police commissioner, Eduardo …
The Easter - Good Friday - Passover Connection
Today is Good Friday. Good Friday takes its name from a now obsolete English sense, which means pious or great. Good Friday is a religious holiday observed primarily by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at …
Foreigners Leaving Scorpion Bay in Baja California Sur
[San Juanico is a small seaside fishing village in Baja California Sur that has become popular with American ex-patriots and surfers. Surfers know it as "Scorpion Bay". The following is a translation of an article in the April 2, 2012 …
The Story of Florence Cassez
Florence Cassez, a 35 year-old Frenchwoman, was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico. She has released a book about her case in an effort to pressure Mexican courts to accept her appeal. The Frenchwoman …
Good Samaritan doctors rousted by Baja cops, so they pack up and fly home
This was published March 12 , 2012 in the Sudcaliforniano, a major Baja California Sur newspaper, and translated by Fulano. Ciudad Constitución, Baja California Sur., March 12, 2012 - Last Friday, around 3PM, a group of masked police headed by …
The Love Boat has left Puerto Vallarta
The apex of cheesy television during the 1970's and 80's was The Love Boat. It lasted for eight seasons on ABC, before being mercifully sunk. The Love Boat centered around the adventures of the Pacific Princess, a cruise ship that …