Baja & Border News Translations: Medical Tourism Earns $1 Billion; 4 Fugitives Captured

One trillion dollars? Wow. Pretty amazing, especially when one considers the entire GDP of Mexico is only 1.23 Trillion dollars. Somebody needs to check their decimal points.
— September 20, 2012 9:45 a.m.

New report confirms massive drop in Baja California homicides

Gee whiz, the homicide rate in Baja California is only 10 times the homicide rate in the United States. Why, it's practically paradise...not.
— August 22, 2012 1:44 p.m.

Did This Guy Prepare YOUR Taxes?

Did anybody notice he was a former Internal Revenue Service agent? Just saying...
— August 11, 2012 1:10 p.m.

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This isn't a blog. It is an advertisement for a restaurant in Ensenada. Only the Coral Hotel didn't have to pay The Reader for an ad block like the other businesses advertising on the right side of this page. Sheesh! What a moocher.
— May 15, 2012 3:46 p.m.

A TALE OF TWO LEGENDS

LOS ANGELES — Three crew members of a sailboat have been found dead and a fourth person is missing after their boat ran into trouble during a yacht race off the coasts of California and Mexico. Coast Guard Petty Officer Henry Dunphy says rescuers are searching late Saturday for the crew member after finding the bodies and debris from the boat near the Coronado Islands in Mexico. He says the Coast Guard was investigating what may have happened to the boat. The 37-foot Aegean was participating in the 125-mile Newport to Ensenada International Yacht Race that began Friday. Its home port is Redondo Beach. The names of the dead were not released pending notification of next of kin.
— April 28, 2012 10:20 p.m.

The Tuscany of Baja, San Antonio Del Mar

Ummmm. Your blog appears to have been entirely refuted by this 15-year resident of San Antonio Del Mar, who posted this comment in The San Diego Reader: [Comment by ALIVE_IN_TIJUANA][1] [1]: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/alive_in_Tiju…
— April 22, 2012 10:19 a.m.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Visits San Diego Brothel in Push to Promote American Sex Tourism

Satire is supposed to make the target look foolish. In this case it backfired.
— April 5, 2012 11:20 a.m.

Ensenada Police Department: An Open Letter of Thanks

Here's a list of 23 Tijuana police officers charged by Tijuana's police chief, Alberto Capella, with robbery, and extortion of tourists and drivers: 1.- Julio César Solís Cárdenas 2.- Andrés Fernando Castro Bojórquez 3.- Martín Enrique Muñoz Ávila 4.- Salvador García Miranda 5.- Tomás Vázquez Guerrero 6.- Gabriel Ramírez González 7.- Mario Alberto Ramblas Torres 8.- Walter Refugio Maciel González 9.- Adilú del Socorro Ávila Lugo 10.- José Alí Preciado Sánchez 11.- Eduardo Rivera Navarro 12.- José Antonio Ruiz Salmerón 13.- Ángel Eduardo Cruz Pulido 14.- Jorge Javier García Velásquez 15.- Leonel Francisco Cota Castro 16.- Miguel Ángel Cruz Palomares 17.- Claudia Ordaz López 18.- Carlos Guillermo Sagaz Manzanares 19.- Ramón González Ramírez 20.- Freddy Efigenio Cano 21.- Manuel Enrique Hernández González 22.- Marco Antonio Vidal Gracia 23.- Alberto Eliot Pérez Estrada That is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many more. Here is a link to an article where a ministerial police officer in Cuernavaca was caught driving a stolen car that was used in a kidnapping. [Link to article in Spanish.][1] [1]: http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldecuautla/notas/n24589…
— April 1, 2012 1:54 a.m.

Rosarito Beach Sportfishing, Alive and Well

Well, that makes for an interesting story -- about the Rosarito pier -- too bad it is just not true. The pier was built so cruise ships could stop at Rosarito. Unfortunately, it was poorly planned. It is next to the outfall of the Rosarito Creek, which dumps large amounts of sand and rock into the ocean when there is a heavy rain. Between the time construction of the pier started and was finished, the sea bottom silted up and lowered the ocean depth. When the first cruise ship arrived, it was delayed in its departure, as when the tide went out it was stuck on the bottom. The ship had to wait for the tide to come in to depart. Since then, no cruise ship has ever returned to Rosarito. Now it is a very expensive fishing pier. That was not the original plan.
— March 30, 2012 9:46 p.m.

Rock Fishermen do it with Mussel!

I'm not sure what you are driving at here, since it is legal to take shellfish in California if one has a fishing license. However, Tommy, now you are advising your readers to blatantly ignore and violate Mexico's laws and regulations. Here is what Mexico says about it: http://www.conapescasandiego.org/contenido.cfm?co… "A fishing license allows to capture only fin fish. It does not allow to capture any other mollusks or crustaceans, and their capture by anyone is strictly prohibited." By the way, Tommy, Mexico has very strict laws about foreigners meddling in their internal affairs. It is grounds for deportation if a foreigner in Mexico advises others to violate Mexican laws.
— March 20, 2012 9:14 a.m.