Gypsy Jan
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There Might Be a Something Something Going On
Today, when we drove into Rosarito, we passed some Mexican army trucks full of soldiers in camouflage fatigues heading north.
FWIW, we haven't seen these trucks on the road for some time.
Now, at sunset, some black helicopters have buzzed by, following the coastline, also heading north.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
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\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
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\"Alea iacta est.\"
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Bajafun777
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Gypsy Jan, hope all is well with you and your husband and your dogs especially your big black Great Dane. How is the free road coming from Rosarito
past KM 38? Hoping they have it all done by the time we get back down in June. Hope what you are seeing is not any trouble heating up. Take Care
& Travel Safe----"No Hurry, No Worry, Just FUN" bajafun777
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rubencastillo
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Can you please keep us posted.,if you here any think, Was going rideing tomorow down south, guess i'll wait,,Be safe and take care.
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DENNIS
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Sounds as though someone important is making a visit to your town.
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tripledigitken
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Russell Crowe?
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Russell Crowe? |
I had in mind that someone actually made a reservation at the hotel and the city isn't taking any chances with the safety of their weekend. 
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EnsenadaDr
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Someone important...
Dennis I was about to say the same thing that maybe Calderon was visiting in the area...or maybe Newt Gingrich was coming to town for some authentic
Mexican tamales!! | Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Russell Crowe? |
I had in mind that someone actually made a reservation at the hotel and the city isn't taking any chances with the safety of their weekend. |
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
Dennis I was about to say the same thing that maybe Calderon was visiting in the area...or maybe Newt Gingrich was coming to town for some authentic
Mexican tamales!! |
Two things I'd never eat in that area....Pozole and Tamales.
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DavidE
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On the mainland one trip to Zihuatanejo I kept tabs of an oncoming motor convoy on my Dictaphone. The cadence went like this...
Three Ford F-150 pickups each with three marinas in the cab and six sitting in the bed.
Two Mercedes flatbed trucks. Each with two in the cab and fourteen in the rear
Four Humvees with soldier stationed on roof mount browning .50 caliber, Could not see inside.
Nine more pickups, then
Four more flatbeds
A Mercedes ambulance
Six more pickups
An old amphibious armored personnel carrier three wheels in a row
Nine more pickups
Five more Mercedes flatbeds
Another personnel carrier
Three more humvees
Another ambulance
And the shuddering racket of more than one helicopter bringing up the rear
It was depressing and not the first time I had a huge convoy pass by me. One day during the great SSP campaign I counted 46 pickup trucks in a row
just outside of Lazaro Card##as. About two miles worth of solid black and white. Some had their light bars flashing.
Mexico deserves better than this. When I see such a large display of insecurity it puts me in a funk for days.
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Woooosh
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The Marines patrol the beach, on the beach- here almost every day. It's the new normal. I do understand they have been taken off of street patrols,
so maybe that is why you see them more on the highways. The disconnect is that Mexico will tell you the presence of the Military makes tourists feel
safer, whereas most Americans feel the opposite: "if there is smoke, there must be a fire nearby."
Military State or Narco State- Mexico has to decide which one it gets next. The past and present states are no mas.
\"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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sancho
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I don't suppose this has anything to do with the Mex
Army , but I thinks it was last Fri. nite, as reported,
a panga was seen intentionally beached a little n. of Malibu near
Los Angeles had up to 1500# of weed
Just guessing it may have come out of Rosarito/Popotla
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Bajahowodd
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Russell Crowe? |
Not since Master and Commander finished its filming.
Seems to me that given the constant worry about the cartels, most every government official has what we might consider an inordinate amount of
security.
We were down in Cabo last fall, and the State Governor made an appearance at a Bisbee Tournament function at the convention hall in the Sheraton
property. The place was crawling with State Police and the army, as well as a gunboat offshore.
Lest we forget that even up in the USA, when the president travels, traffic and people suffer. But even after JFK, Reagan was shot at. High profile
folks rightly have concerns.
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Bomberro
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Borderland Beat
This was on B.B. this A.M.
Last night, in Tijuana, in Colonia Tres De Octubres, at least three armed men dressed in black fatigues, with high caliber automatic weapons, burst
into a house during an early evening party. In a sadly familiar scenario, the gunmen separated the men and women , leading the men into a room, and
then opening fire, massacring all of them including one minor, a 13 year old boy. One of those killed, Daniel Cabera, is the brother of Omar Cabera,
'El R12', a former Tijuana municipal officer, who was detained Jan. 4, 2012, suspected of being the head of security of Alfredo Arteaga Azarte, 'El
Aquilles'.
About an hour after the attack, State Preventative Police, (PEP), working with municipal Tijuana police, as well as local Rosarito officers, caught up
with the gunmen in Rosarito, who refused to stop their vehicle, which resulted in a gun battle between the PEP and the gunmen, who were eventually
captured. Two Ak 47's, one R-15 assault rifles, and two pistols were recovered from the five men, whose identities and criminal affiliation are not
known at this point. Different sources are conflicting on whether the gunmen captured in Rosarito Beach were those responsible for the murders in
Tijuana, some say they were, others say it is still not known.
Some reports say that this was a message to 'El R12', that he was warned if he cooperated with authorities his brother and family would be targeted.
This kind of intimidation is common, when Federal police in Tijuana arrested Manuel Zambrano, 'El Jimmy', in August 2009, he was told through an
attorney, that if he gave up information on members of the cartel, his family members would be murder
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Woooosh
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http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Policiaca/3101...
These poor people in Rosarito lived next door to all the shooting. Their house was shot up pretty bad, including the appliances. They laid on the
floor for 15 minutes thinking they would die. They want to know what police force will pay for the damage. Good luck to them on that.
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captkw
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BB
The us "war on drugs" is more or less,,,the problem !! the us "run's on drug's" mexico "runs on beer" !!
[Edited on 1-31-2012 by captkw]
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
The us "war on drugs" is more or less,,,the problem !! the us "run's on drug's" mexico "runs on beer" !!
[Edited on 1-31-2012 by captkw] |
used to run on beer. now they are all cranked-up. Meth abuse is on the increase, again.
\"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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