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Moving Along
By refriedgringo - November 17, 2009
The house is empty again, just Rocio and Anna and me. It’s nice. Rocio’s brother, one she had never ...
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Topics on Dual Citizenship
By Californio - November 11, 2009
Topics on Dual Citizenship, By Sergio J. Castro In the USA, of the Mexican law enforcement agencies “The Federales” ...
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Ghost Story
By refriedgringo - October 31, 2009
It’s becoming funny sometimes, as if I really live in Los Angeles or New York or some other city ...
Baja Photos
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ijoanna: Just some of the probably hundreds of seals resting on a semi sunken ship about 3 miles into the water from Ensenada's malecon
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refriedgringo: The master of ceremonies, the matador, the rejoneador, and the cuadrilla opening the ceremonies at a bullfight in Playas de Tijuana.
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refriedgringo: Masks.
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Kenbrant: The Valley of Guadalupe is Mexico's premier wine region, and only a short drive from the U.S. along Highway 3 between Tecate and Ensenada. This ...
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Kenbrant: When crossing into Mexico at the town of Tecate, look towards the median at the plaque with a bust of John F. Kennedy. It comes ...
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Kenbrant: If there is one tree that signifies the special quality of Baja, it is the Boojum, scientifically known as Fouquieria columnaris. Those who've travelled south ...
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Baja Stories
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Pirate Prostitutes
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Nov. 13, 2009
With the economic slide has come an increase in the number of women applying for state-sanctioned prostitution licenses in Tijuana. For the past three years, the number of such licenses issued by the state under the ...
Good Press
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Nov. 12, 2009
“While standing in the jewelry store of Jorge Espinoza, I realized that I had a bag on my right shoulder but no bag on my left shoulder,” Colleen McAvoy recounted of an incident that occurred on ...
Mexico
Baja
| Cover Story
| Mexico
| Tijuana
Published Nov. 11, 2009
Why Tijuana? That’s what everybody asks me these days. I know. These days, the headlines about Tijuana feature murder, mayhem, and misery. But here’s the thing. These days, when nobody’s going to Tijuana, wouldn’t you know ...
Welfare Demanded
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 25, 2009
Two-hundred Taxi Libre taxistas descended upon the Servicio Médico Forense (forensic medical service) on Friday, October 23, to give support to the family of a taxi driver murdered while cruising for fares Wednesday afternoon. The taxi ...
Cop Killers Caught?
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 21, 2009
The spate of police killings in Tijuana may have been quelled with the detention of three suspects by the Mexican army following a shoot-out with municipal police last Saturday. The individuals, Edgar Sauceda Rodriguez, Francisco Peralta ...
Gays to Rescue Rosarito?
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 21, 2009
Rosarito plans to launch a promotional campaign to make the beach resort a vacation center for gays. Efarid Rodriguez Carrillo is in charge of the project, modeling it on several similar “alternative tourism” projects that he ...
Eat Up, Countrymen
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 18, 2009
A line has been cast to get more Mexicans hooked on sardines. Strategies are being devised by the Cámara Nacional de la Industria Pesquera y Aquicole (National Chamber of Fisheries and Aquaculture) to beguile Mexicans into ...
Tourism Snapshot
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 14, 2009
Carnival Cruise Line has opted to suspend docking the Elation in Ensenada, starting next April. The company rep stated that the cruise line “no longer felt welcome” at its longtime port of call, as communicated in ...
Rush Hour Spectacle
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 10, 2009
The naked and tortured body of a state tax employee, Rogelio Sanchez Jimenez, was found hanging from a bridge over the free road to Rosarito Beach on Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. A huge traffic jam ...
Saved from the Soup
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 9, 2009
Authorities in Ensenada rescued three big sea turtles from certain death this week, according to the daily Frontera. The turtles had spent days imprisoned in a lavatory, their flippers bound with twine. The migratory marine reptiles, ...
The Last Trick
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 7, 2009
Authorities have arrested three Tijuana teenagers for allegedly killing a man who refused to pay a prostitute for services, the Baja California attorney general said in a statement issued on Tuesday, October 6. Sulivan Ibarra Villanueva, ...
Puerto Nuevo, Mexico
Baja
| Mexico
| Puerto Nuevo
| Travel
Published Oct. 7, 2009
“Hay langosta aqui! Tres por quince dolares!” Ten legs jut out from a slender form. It’s dark red in parts and golden in other sections. Your salivary glands are jolted. Yes, Puerto Nuevo lobster times are ...
Killed for Dollars
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 3, 2009
As 18-year-old José de Jesús Lamas Herrera walked along Virgo Street on June 28 in Tijuana’s Colonia Reacomodo Sánchez Taboada, someone walked up to him, pulled out a pistol, and shot him dead. Authorities now say ...
Tow Yard Tussle
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 2, 2009
A Tijuana man ended up in police custody after he allegedly went to a towing company’s impound yard on Tuesday night, September 29, and forcibly reclaimed his cherry-colored Ford. Employees of Zabad Towing said the man ...
French Scope in Mexico
Baja
| Neighborhood News from Stringers
Published Oct. 2, 2009
France has cut a deal with the Baja California government to house a French-made robotic telescope that will track the celestial movements of a French satellite known as SVOM, which is to be launched in 2012. ...
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