| Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6 |
Ateo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5901
Registered: 7-18-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Talk Baja is reporting the road is open.
|
|
|
BajaGringo
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3922
Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
Member Is Offline
Mood: Let's have a BBQ!
|
|
The highway is open and traffic is now flowing both directions. Just got off the phone with Jim (Pescador) who made the drive north through this
morning...
|
|
|
ehall
Super Nomad
Posts: 1906
Registered: 3-29-2014
Location: Buckeye, Az
Member Is Offline
Mood: It's 5 o'clock somewhere
|
|
If it gets too bad you can come up to my house for awhile. Bring your bike.
|
|
|
richard nauman
Junior Nomad
Posts: 67
Registered: 10-1-2003
Member Is Offline
Mood: Tranquilo
|
|
Large force of police and military showed up here at 3 am and quickly restored order. Convoy of many, maybe more than 100 vehicles, continued south.
Road open both ways. Lots of broken glass and smoldering tires here. It was a long night.
|
|
|
Cliffy
Senior Nomad
Posts: 986
Registered: 12-19-2013
Member Is Offline
|
|
Driscol strawberries are all over the USA big time.
|
|
|
bajatrailrider
Super Nomad
Posts: 2432
Registered: 1-24-2015
Location: Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Happy
|
|
What do you mean Ed,Im the one striking for more wages.I will report more today from our ride south.I think all is well.
|
|
|
Gulliver
Senior Nomad
Posts: 651
Registered: 11-18-2013
Member Is Offline
|
|
They should revolt. If I were there I would join their demonstration.
|
|
|
richard nauman
Junior Nomad
Posts: 67
Registered: 10-1-2003
Member Is Offline
Mood: Tranquilo
|
|
Highway blocked again in Vincente Guerrero. Some traffic getting around on side streets. No sign of police. Long lines at pemex. Almost everything
else is closed. We waited too long to leave.
|
|
|
BajaNomad
|
Threads Merged
3-18-2015 at 09:51 AM |
BajaNomad
|
Threads Merged
3-18-2015 at 09:52 AM |
BajaGringo
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3922
Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
Member Is Offline
Mood: Let's have a BBQ!
|
|
Yes, after being opened briefly this morning, protestors have managed to form a blockade across the highway again in Vicente Guerrero. I have been
receiving reports that a crowd is growing and they have starting pelting cars with rocks who attempt to leave the highway to go around the blockade.
Just moments ago an eyewitness reported seeing a convoy of police and military heading north out of San Quintin, probably in response.
Stay put and stay tuned...
[Edited on 3-18-2015 by BajaGringo]
|
|
|
richard nauman
Junior Nomad
Posts: 67
Registered: 10-1-2003
Member Is Offline
Mood: Tranquilo
|
|
Tires burning now in VG. Very large crowd blocking highway. Different crowd than yesterday when protestors were friendly and mostly peaceful here.
Lots of covered faces and young guys. I am watching at a distance with binoculars. They are boarding up windows at la mission restaurant
[Edited on 3-18-2015 by richard nauman]
|
|
|
richard nauman
Junior Nomad
Posts: 67
Registered: 10-1-2003
Member Is Offline
Mood: Tranquilo
|
|
Three pickups of soldiers came from south. We tried to convoy through blockade with them and other people from hotel. The crowd was too large for them
and the road blocks were rebuilt faster than soldiers could remove them. Returned to hotel.
[Edited on 3-18-2015 by richard nauman]
|
|
|
BajaGringo
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3922
Registered: 8-24-2006
Location: La Chorera
Member Is Offline
Mood: Let's have a BBQ!
|
|
The highway through Vicente Guerrero is open again and right now traffic is flowing cautiously in both directions, although there are reports of no
gasoline in Camalu or Colonet. I strongly recommend you wait if possible as they could close it again later without notice...
|
|
|
JohnMcfrog
Nomad
Posts: 156
Registered: 8-1-2012
Location: San Diego, Punta Abreojos
Member Is Offline
|
|
The LA Times had a piece on the protests:
http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-baja-farm...
I hope that the link will resolve for those who do not take the Times, as I do. It was with some dismay that I read the original series on the poor
conditions which plagues agri-business in Mexico. I always feel a relief when past El Rosario. The poverty and population density is a hard thing to
see, especially when I feel the good prices on produce at San Diego markets may be at the expense of those workers.
I wish there was a way to buy certified produce that didn't involve the suffering of those who live in Baja and other parts of Mexico.
The original Times series... Hopefully the link will resolve for you. (scroll down to read article)
http://graphics.latimes.com/product-of-mexico-camps/
[Edited on 3-18-2015 by JohnMcfrog]
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7084
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Thanks the first link worked, the second timed out for me, could be my computer's problem.
Does anybody know how much the field workers make per hour?
|
|
|
bajatrailrider
Super Nomad
Posts: 2432
Registered: 1-24-2015
Location: Mexico
Member Is Offline
Mood: Happy
|
|
Blocked
So today we came down from mountains,to Camilu.Lots of stores broken windows.Protesters,but zero problems,gas station open,but nothing else.About 40
unmarked white undercover police trucks.I know who they are.Thats why now road open,and no more problems.The guys in the white trucks,carry machine
guns.Told protesters,yes you can protest but not block road,or loot stores. They did stop,very simple,or we shoot. Poor camp workers only make 8/12
dollar's a day.Be happy you dont work here.
|
|
|
SFandH
Elite Nomad
Posts: 7084
Registered: 8-5-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
A dollar an hour. 
Hard work to boot. The farm owners must be making a bundle. Almost free labor.
|
|
|
BajaBill74
Nomad
Posts: 255
Registered: 1-27-2014
Member Is Offline
Mood: Beyond Extatic!
|
|
Second link worked for me.
Very depressing.
|
|
|
Ateo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5901
Registered: 7-18-2011
Member Is Offline
|
|
Excellent LA Times article. Thanks.
|
|
|
Ken Cooke
Elite Nomad
Posts: 8946
Registered: 2-9-2004
Location: Riverside, CA
Member Is Offline
Mood: Pole Line Road postponed due to injury
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by bajatrailrider  | | So today we came down from mountains,to Camilu.Lots of stores broken windows.Protesters,but zero problems,gas station open,but nothing else.About 40
unmarked white undercover police trucks.I know who they are.Thats why now road open,and no more problems.The guys in the white trucks,carryover
machine guns.Told protesters,yes you can protest but not block road,or loot stores. They did stop,very simple,or we shoot. Poor camp workers only make
8/12 dollar's a day.Be happy you dont work here. |
I have been following this closely. Thanks for posting. How are those tie rod ends coming along?
|
|
|
Bajahowodd
Elite Nomad
Posts: 9274
Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
Member Is Offline
|
|
Just maybe it's time for the Los Pinos boys to stop buying hotels and instead pay their employees a decent wage. We all know how they were able to
afford the hotels, and I am certain that the protesters also know it.
But then, again, is this not really mirroring what has been going on NOB???
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2
3
4
5
6 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
