sanluquëna
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What's going on in Los Cabos? Cabo Taxi Protest
The town is filling up with grey uniformed, jack-booted federales with automatic weapons and bullet-proof vests. There are several in almost every
hotel now, standing guard.
[Edited on 8-3-2008 by BajaNomad]
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Bajabus
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Hopefully they are cracking down on time share salespersons....
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
Dwight David Eisenhower
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajabus
Hopefully they are cracking down on time share salespersons |
Ha Ha, good one!
What is happening is that the taxi union has adopted more agressive tactics and have blockaded most of the resorts to prevent the tour operators from
working. The Federales have been brought in to restore order.
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The taxistas blocked the road going into San Lucas yesterday.
Is there an expression in Spanish for cutting off your nose to spite your face?
Business is bad enough without these guys scaring the tourists to death.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajajudy
The taxistas blocked the road going into San Lucas yesterday.
Is there an expression in Spanish for cutting off your nose to spite your face?
Business is bad enough without these guys scaring the tourists to death. |
Let's face it ...
Somehow the taxi cartel is bound and determined to ruin the tourist business in Cabo San Lucas ....
And this time they have the ruling of the supreme court  who bought them
off ?
The last two issues of The Gringo Gazette have extensive articles and comments on the TAXI CARTEL in Los Cabos...
Can you imagine that your tour group of two hundred persons has to now take taxis to a central place where you will board your tour busses ???? And
repeat the whole thing in reverse when you return
Pleasant Hollidays and four other majors have sent a letter to the mayor (as if that will do any good) stateing that they are suspending tour bookings
to Cabo San Lucas ....
Aparently the mayor and his family have extensive holdings in the TAXI CARTEL ...
BTB, the jackbooted and masked whoevers were all over Todos Santos a couple of weeks ago .... I thought they were finally fulfilling their promise
of replacing the local police ... as promised by our new representative to the state congress.
What a joke ....
Once again the Mexican government has shown that it is ....
Maybe this is good news .... rents will go down .....
CaboRon
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Cabo Taxi Protest
(from The News)
Taxi-van spat flares in Cabo
WIRE REPORTS
A 10-kilometer-long convoy of taxis caused traffic jams and one accident Saturday in Baja California Sur as protesting cabbies demanded that federal
police deployed to a resort community be sent home.
The cabs set out from San José del Cabo and arrived in Cabo San Lucas in time for a morning rally against the federal police presence in the popular
beach resort. Taxi service was suspended throughout much of the day.
The federal government has deployed hundreds of federal police in Baja California Sur in an attempt to quell a dispute between taxi drivers and tour
van operators in Cabo San Lucas.
About 200 agents guarded hotels and van services on Friday after recent incidents in which taxi drivers forced vehicles to stop or give up their
passengers.
The cabbies say the vans are unfairly stealing their business and the federal government should not meddle in a matter that is Baja California Sur's
state business.
The dispute has been going on for years and occasionally causes some inconvenience for visitors.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Oso
The dispute has been going on for years and occasionally causes some inconvenience for visitors. |
I recently recounted my experience in taking a bus from CSL to the airport (or so I thought) only to be dumped at the turnoff with all my luggage in
Aug 100+ heat. Other posters blamed the taxi cartel for not allowing the buses to go to the airport. But the people who put me on that bus could
have told me...
Mom always told me to be different - Now she says...Not THAT different
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