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Baja Sur is Bankrupt
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Translation below of article here
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/se-va-a-piqu...
Sinking is state government
Posted on August 27, 2010
They soon collapse finances
Narcissus lower the 10 percent salary
Officials canceled cell
Comes the hard part, say
La Paz, BCS-In the absence of liquidity and falling revenue, the Ministry of Finance of the State Government does not rule out proposing a new 10%
adjustment in the salaries of officials from the governor to heads of department and a further review of the different areas of the state
administration to proceed with the cancellation of telephone lines and a drastic revision in operating expenses of each of them, to deal with the many
established financial commitments with suppliers and workers, announced the Finance Secretary Jose Antonio Ramirez Gomez.
He said that on instructions from Governor Narciso Agundez seek to avoid the most affect the rights of union workers and maintain optimal service of
great importance for Social Development as Public Security, Law Enforcement, Education and Health, emphasizing that wages paid to suppliers and
workers is reflected in the regional economy immediately.
The state official said that for now the temporary decision was taken to reduce operating funds are allocated based on the budget approved by Congress
at all levels of government, and the provision of gasoline and the purchase of stationery , among other expenses.
He recalled that since the beginning of the administration, the governor ordered the cancellation of payments of mobile services to staff, renting
office buildings and covering travel expenses, in addition to the purchase of airline tickets, car rental or purchase and authorization for the
payment of hotels.
"We are working with a very dramatic economic plan because revenues have fallen and we have to survive with the resources available," he said.
The Governor's goal is to avoid the suspension of works and social programs, but we can see that there is already a decline in the pace of public
works in all municipalities, because there is a commitment to complete what is in the process and avoid setting new commitments to complicate the
state's finances and affect in some way to the next administration, he said.
The Financial Secretary's decision held that municipal governments to act accordingly and reminded that with full respect for their autonomy and
decisions have been suggested to establish emerging financial stocks to move forward its financial commitments.
Gómez Ramírez announced that the most critical financial period for the State Administration and certainly for municipal governments is practically
around the corner, because they curb the month of December and faces compromises that involve a strong brew by concept of benefits coverage to
employees of the various administrations.
"For our part we are already working to meet this commitment and we know that the situation is very difficult and there is no money in the Federation
or the state or municipalities. The Governor has asked us to make savings but these are insufficient for the magnitude of the sum required to move
forward with a commitment to year-end, in addition to the heavy debts that have been dragging with suppliers, "he said.
Finally, the Secretary of Finance Jose Antonio Ramírez Gómez announced that the Governor Narciso Agundez has established communication with the
Ministry of Finance and Public Credit to address this lack of liquidity problem facing the state administration and the five municipalities, and also
is repeated in all the entities and municipalities across the country.
[Edited on 8-28-2010 by BajaNomad]
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gnukid
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Some Government Employees Declare Two Months Without Pay in Mulege
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsudcaliforniano/notas/n1760059.htm
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Surprise Flood in Constitucion
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsudcaliforniano/notas/n1760039.htm
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gnukid
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Who Stole 7 Billion Pesos?
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/abcdario-44/
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San Ingnacio city employees have not been paid in 6 cycles or 3 months. We all need to help out the people that help us. Bags of rice, bean and a
fish or to right to a hungry family is one way to repay.
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About a year ago Mexico announced that as many as 2,000 towns and cities had to close city managment offices because of lack of funds. I bet that
number has increased dramatically since then. That's a lot of people out of work -- almost none of those are skilled farmers, fishermen, masons so
their job opportunities are slim. No part of Mexico is spared but Baja Sur is just now feeling the squeeze. Bad timing for this little pueblo because
our new sewer system only has 30 houses on line, sewage is running in the streets and removal trucks are roaring in and out of town to stay ahead of
it. If I no longer see the trucks I will conclude the system is fixed or they ran out of gas money.
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It has been a problem around here for a while. Santa Rosalia quit sending any money here so no one was being paid. Thus, they started creating some
new lots on formerly dedicated city land, one of which we had to buy. As the new lots have sold, they have paid the workers. But it has been and is
still really rough. We have needed to loan some money for things like medicine. Around here with family and friends it is pretty easy to be sure you
have enough to eat. (they do pay back)
What is really difficult is that they are now also pressing people to finish paying off their land. Many have had their homes on their lots for many,
many years, but have never finished paying the Delegation for the land nor have they paid the taxes. So they are being pressured, and as to be
expected, some vultures are lurking waiting to jump in and snatch up the land if they cannot make acceptable arrangements with the Delegation.
Not a good situation.
[Edited on 8-28-2010 by DianaT]
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For sale: Biosphere Reserve?
The government's even trying to sell Punta Belcher, which is either a part of or very near the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve.
From Proceso news site:
Se vende isla barata
Excerpt:
"The municipality of Comondu, with support from the government of Baja California Sur, is determined to sell Punta Belcher, an area that should be
under federal protection by being part of the biosphere reserve of the Pacific Islands. The purpose of the sale, he says, is adding funds to the
bankrupt municipality, but the price fixed is laughable: 2 million 600 thousand pesos. And the federal government has not raised his voice..."
From Colectivo Pericú:
Evitar venta de Punta Belcher
Excerpt:
"The Executive of the State of Baja California Sur, under the pretext that his government is "giving the task of identifying the real property of the
state government that are not fulfilling the function of providing any services to the community, identifying each use and tourist vocation, "sent an
Ordinance by Initiative which seeks approval to market and dispose of land for consideration by the State Government property, located in the state
territory.
The Initiative states in its fourth article that "authorizing the Executive Head of the State of Baja California Sur, to promote, tender and, where
appropriate disposition for value, a fraction of a plot called" Belcher Point ", located in the Isla Magdalena Bay, the Municipality of Comondú .... "
This situation has alarmed the Baja Californian society, since such action confirms the Governor's intentions to sell two million pesos 629 000 251
the plot called Punta Belcher, tourist place with dunes and vegetation of the Isla Magdalena, municipality of Comondu 2000 comprising 500 hectares."
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A seeming disconnect. BC just announced a 15 billion peso investment to create jobs. Where's that money coming from?
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n1761400.htm
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Bajahowoudd, Probably just following the example set by the US. No money? No problemo. Just print some mo.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Bajahowoudd, Probably just following the example set by the US. No money? No problemo. Just print some mo. |
Ditto's..
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teadust
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Cruz Roja
"Three Red Cross branches in Baja California are about to close for lack of resources."
This was announced by State Delegate Samuel Chavez Pelayo Red Cross. He said that the delegations affected by the economic crisis are the Rumorosa,
San Felipe and San Quentin.
Resources are needed above the 2 million dollars to catch up on overdue payments of light and other services to continue to pay attention the rest of
the year.
Source: "A punto de cerrar tres delegaciones de Cruz Roja en BC," El Mexicano, 20 Sept. 2010
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| Quote: | Originally posted by teadust
"Three Red Cross branches in Baja California are about to close for lack of resources."
This was announced by State Delegate Samuel Chavez Pelayo Red Cross. He said that the delegations affected by the economic crisis are the Rumorosa,
San Felipe and San Quentin.
Resources are needed above the 2 million dollars to catch up on overdue payments of light and other services to continue to pay attention the rest of
the year.
Source: "A punto de cerrar tres delegaciones de Cruz Roja en BC," El Mexicano, 20 Sept. 2010 |
Rosarito Cruz Roja is also slated for closure.
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600 million pesos were stolen yesterday from the water office in Cabo?
http://colectivopericu.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/roban-mas-de...
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Looks more like 600,000 pesos. Quite a dif. Something near $45,000 usd. For a minute, I wondered why they would have had so much sitting around.
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That's good!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by teadust
The government's even trying to sell Punta Belcher, which is either a part of or very near the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve.
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not near vizcaino. is near mag bay,... i think
when things get tough, govts often sell their assets for fire sale prices.
too bad
[Edited on 9-21-2010 by mtgoat666]
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Kinda off topic, but this is an interesting history of Mag Bay that I didn't know.
The US should buy Punta Belcher and turn it into a US national park.
"HUMAN GEOGRAPHY: Named Bahia Santa Maria Magdalena by Sebastian Vizcaino in 1602, Bahia Magdalena has been a center of intensive resource
extraction since the nineteenth century (Beltran del Rio 1989; Mathes 1979; Nelson 1921; North 1910; and Young and Dedina 1993).
Between 1845 and 1874, approximately 2,200 gray whales were killed in Bahia Magdalena by U.S. whalers, more than any other single location along the
Pacific Coast of the peninsula (Henderson 1984: 169). Whaling in the bay continued in the 1920s by Norwegians (Garcia M. 1931; Reeves
1984:191). At the turn of the century, the Flores Hale Company of the U.S. owned the entire bay and an approximately 21 km wide section of the Pacific
Coast from the tropic of Cancer to Punta Cono (29 degrees) (Sangines 1908). From 1904 to 1910 Bahia Magdalena was used as a practice gunnery and
bombing range by the U.S. Navy, mainly during the winter months when gray whales were present. In March 1908, the U.S. Navy's White Fleet arrived at
Bahia Magdalena at the end of a Latin American tour with 28 ships and more than 13,000 sailors. The White Fleet
bombed the bay day and night for two weeks (Carter 1971:66-70; Jefe de las Armas 1908). In 1912, rumors that the Japanese government was planning to
purchase the bay for use as a naval base resulted in controversy in the U.S., and the passage by the U.S. Senate of the Lodge
Resolution, which stated that the establishment of foreign naval bases in Latin America were a threat to U.S. interests. The base was never
constructed (Chamberlain 1939; Manno and Bednarcick1988). Many of the earliest residents of the region migrated from inland ranches, particularly
those in and around the Sierra de la Giganta east of Bahia Magdalena. The founding family of Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos, the Luceros, moved from a
ranch in the Sierra de la Giganta in the early 1920s to Matancitas, an arroyo ranching community approximately ten km from where Puerto Adolfo Lopez
Mateos stands today. A few years later the family moved to the
bay shoreline and made a living by fishing for sea turtles and sharks. Today at Matancitas, houses made from the remains of shipwrecks found on the
barrier islands are still in use, illustrating the close ties ranching communities retain to the bay. Bahia Magdalena entered the modern era with the
construction of a fish cannery at Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos in the late 1950s, and the subsequent inauguration of port and cannery facilities at San
Carlos in the 1960s (Chavez 1994). Today, residents of the bay work in the fishing industry, with some working as independent
fishers, others employed by the numerous fishing cooperatives in the bay, and others working as wage-laborers for seafood companies. Many bay
residents still engage in subsistence fishing and can be seen in the remote and narrow channels away from towns, pushing narrow boats with
poles or fishing with handlines from skiffs propelled by oars (Section 4.5.2 contains additional discussion of economic activities in Bahia
Magdalena). Many of the residents of San Carlos and Puerto Adolfo Lopez Mateos are migrants from the interior of Mexico who arrived in the Santo
Domingo Valley in the 1950s and 60s searching for work in agriculture, and moved to Bahia Magdalena when the canneries opened. Whale tourism has only
recently become an important part of the local economy (Municipio de Comondu 1994a). In the last few years agriculture and fishing have been
unproductive, resulting in a depressed regional economy and large-scale
unemployment. Since 1988, more than 11,000 residents have abandoned the Santo Domingo Valley as a result of the economic recession in the region
(Expreso de Baja California Sur 1994)."
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| Quote: | Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
| Quote: | Originally posted by teadust
"Three Red Cross branches in Baja California are about to close for lack of resources."
This was announced by State Delegate Samuel Chavez Pelayo Red Cross. He said that the delegations affected by the economic crisis are the Rumorosa,
San Felipe and San Quentin.
Resources are needed above the 2 million dollars to catch up on overdue payments of light and other services to continue to pay attention the rest of
the year.
Source: "A punto de cerrar tres delegaciones de Cruz Roja en BC," El Mexicano, 20 Sept. 2010 |
Rosarito Cruz Roja is also slated for closure. |
I went by there yesterday... you should see the line-up of new, beautiful, high-tech ambulances on the street. There must have been six of them! Can
they be converted to ice cream trucks?
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by wilderone
In March 1908, the U.S. Navy's White Fleet arrived at Bahia Magdalena at the end of a Latin American tour with 28 ships and more than 13,000 sailors.
The White Fleet
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that probably kept the gray whales on their toes!
would be nice if mexico would let us do that to drug cartels today. also would be a good way to clean up rosarito, a little carpet bombing
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