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VOL. 7 ED. 18 • OCTOBER 26, 2020 • NO BAD NEWS
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Dia De Los MuertosBY REN DRAKE HILL
BY DAVID BEYER
Coming this Novermber 2nd to a mexican family near you!
Dia De Los Muertos – Day of the Dead - is one of the most im-portant holidays in Mexico. Cel-ebrated through-out Central and South America, it originated more than 3000 years ago and is celebrated on November 1st and 2nd.
In this year of the p andemic , many
cultural and re-ligious observa-tions are being minimalized. Baja California Sur has essentially “out-lawed” Hallow-
een Trick or Treat-ing, but Baja Norte has not, altough it has
highly highly advised
against taking kids trick or treating or opening up your doors to kids that are. The holidays will be subject to limitations such as families being allowed to enter cem-eteries one at a time, but there are still many ways the holiday may be observed and celebrated, even by expats.
First of all we can help support our communities by purchasing holiday ele-ments. Marigolds, potted and trimmed, orange and gold, are available along most neigh-borhood streets to add color to our lives.
The seasonal yen for sweets may be satisfied by a visit to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
A Garden of Earthly DelightsSharing is a Blessing of Abundance, Amy DeBaun
An exodus of Gringos – mostly retired couples from SoCal – were forced to leave their dream houses in Punta Banda on October 11, 1999, after being served with eviction notices by the original owners of the property.
They disputed the Ejido Co-lonia Esteban Cantu’s claim to a 250-acre tract of land on the
sandbar, known as the Punta Estero peninsula, granted by the federal government in 1973.
By the late 1980’s, the “eji-datarios” (the 80 members of the communal ownership group), had leased most of that area to Americans who were looking to settle in Baja and
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Sempra gets the green light from the population. In a re-cent public consultation made by Ensenada authorities to decide if the $2 billion (USD) investment for the expansion of the Sempra gas plant should be approved or not, the “yes” came out on top, which vali-dated the investment.
Critics of the consultation say that Sempra is only missing one permit to go ahead with its expansion, and it has nothing to do with the consultory out-come. The only license they are
missing is one from the Federal Energy office, and the decision of this office will be completely independent of the outcome of the consultation.
Several business groups and the government of Ensenada have been very vocal in their approval of the investment; as they say, it will positively
improve our state’s economy.Sempra has committed to
investing $21 million (USD) in public works that will directly benefit Ensenada’s citizens.
More COVID restrictions. State health office director Alonso Perez Rico announced that there will be closure of activities and reduction of occupancy in public spaces in the following days due to increased active COVID cases in Baja California.
Unfortunately, we are en-tering the winter season, and
we are already experimenting a higher “than expected number of cases in our clinics. All of our municipalities are gaining at least one new active case every day, which makes for an increasing cases tendency, especially in Ensenada and Mexicali”, stated Perez Rico.
He also insisted on main-
taining the preventive mea-sures taken from the start, like sanitization, washing hands, and social distancing, as it has been noted that people and businesses are starting to relax with said measures.
It’s Almost Time to Fall Back. Daylight saving time (DST) ends this November 1st at 2:00 am, and our local authorities recommend setting back your clocks one hour (if you still have any that don’t do it automatically) the night
of October 31st before going to bed.
There is some confusion with Daylight savings in Mex-ico, as most Mexican states end their DST on October 25th. We, and all the border states, do it a week later to stay in sync with the United States, as the border communities are so
intertwined that it would be problematic to have different times for a whole week.
Ensenada Al Fresco, a new option for the weekend. Local restauranteurs located in the first street and the municipal government have worked to-gether in order to organize a weekend event where people can go and eat outside the restaurants.
Every Saturday and Sunday from 8:00 am to 11:00 pm, the event takes place on first street, which is closed for car circulation between Castillo and Riveroll. Businesses put tables and chairs outside where people can sit and enjoy their products with just the right amount of social distancing.
“The Ensenada govern-ment is open and inclusive, and listens to proposals that help generate wellness in our community, and in this case, the economic reactivation. This program was born of a suggestion made by San Diego authorities, and we adapted it to work for our local business-
es”, stated Brenda Mendoza, head of the City Economic Development office.
Your Electric Bill Just Got a Little Cheaper. The Mexican Supreme Court announced last Tuesday that it had declared illegal for any of the cities in Baja California to collect pub-lic lighting taxes, better known as DAP, in the CFE bill.
Each city defined the DAP tax amount, and the CFE col-lected the money and passed
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your favorite Dulce mercado for a bag of your favorite candy. Treats are individually wrapped, and delicacies from the States are often available alongside the local fare
The traditional pan de muerto, “bread of the dead,” is a local favorite. There are several types of “Dead Bread,” and variations of them are always found among the holi-day cuisine.
The torta de muerto, a round roll with a doughy
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Letters To The Editor
Dear Editor, I live in Ensenada and on Friday I went to the doctor in
San Diego. On the return trip the road to Ensenada was closed and I wound up in town, lost. Saw a cop car with 2 cops and asked directions to Toll road . They said follow me. I followed them for 4 blocks and they pulled me over on a not used road and told me to exit the car. They took me to the rear of my car and started searching me, took out my wallet, took all the money out, tossed the wallet on top of the car and drove off ..
- William Ward
Dear William,I'm sorry you experienced such mistreatment by the police,
unfortunately it is not an isolated case. We publish a piece every now and then here explaining what to do in this kind of situation.
First of all, don't risk it by attacking the police, that will never end well for you in any country. What you can do is take note of the officers patrol number and ask for a name, by law they have to give it to you but of course they can and sometimes will deny it. In that case just take out your phone and snap a picture of them.
Tell them you're going to "sindicatura" (sort of the mexican Internal Affairs offfice) to report them, normally upon hearing the word sindicatura they will back off and let you go.
If you need to file a report you can always go to the Sindicatura office, there is one for each city, you can google the address.
You will have to go to the Sindicatura office in the city the incident happened as they depend on the city and not the State. The Ensenada office can't do nothing to police abuses that hap-pened in Tijuana. ,
cross and some sugar sprin-kles on top is a dry bread, as are most of the breads baked specifically for this holiday.
The pretzel-shaped “ala-mar” is generally covered in seeds and mimics the conchos and designs on a Mexican cowboy’s clothing. These are sold in most panaderias.
The third type, not found everywhere (perhaps be-cause it is a bit gruesome), is the gollete, a red-colored sugar-coated donut that is said to represent tzompantli, sacrificial craniums held to temple walls by a stick driven through the middle of the
bone. These are only pro-duced on October 24th and November 2nd.
Traditionally, sugar skulls are created individually, and personalized for each family member who has departed. They are available in some sweet shops, but usually or-ders must be placed weeks in advance. There are kits offered on the internet where one may craft his own sugar skulls at home, complete with decorating instructions. Don’t try these unless you are a super-crafter or truly at-home in the kitchen; alternatively, CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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The American Nazi Killing Fields on the Border with Mexico
BY JUAN B. BOTERO
Since the 19th Century, the extra-judicial killings of blacks and migrant workers along the Southern border was considered a cultural anomaly in some circles. But in certain segments of the American South, it was a fa-vorite pastime in terms of how white Anglo-Saxons dealt with people regarded as “different.” The Civil Rights Act of 1965, resulting from the struggle and assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., clearly penetrated the national con-sciousness by revealing that lynching blacks was not only unconstitutional but also a crime.
What most Americans fail to recognize is that the para-digm shift from this break-through was associated ex-clusively with the treatment of blacks. And even though Congress clearly specified that the new laws covered any race,
creed or religion, the fact re-mains that the perception was and is that it applied primar-ily to the black community. Because of the absence of a national Hispanic leader like the Rev. King, it didn’t fully register in 1965 that the lynch-ing and extrajudicial killings of the migrants that usually accompanied black victims also had to stop.
Thus the same bigotry that abused Japanese and Chinese immigrants, Native Ameri-cans, Irish immigrants and blacks was simply transferred to the next group: the Mexi-cans.
The glaring blind spot confronting us today via the Trump Administration is ob-vious if we connect the dots. For example, heavily-armed ultra-nationalists, white su-premacists, members of David Duke’s Klan Border Watch and American Nazi Party militias
have been patrolling the US-Mexico border for decades. The earliest reports of atroci-ties against Mexicans by Texas Rangers date back to the 19th
century. Today, heavily-armed militias, the so-called Minute-men and an array of white, Anglo-Saxon vigilantes are operating primarily in Cali-fornia, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. This can only mean one thing: their claims to me-dia outlets that they're simply arresting immigrants to assist the Border Patrol is a myth.
Intercepted communica-tions by law enforcement, hate-group experts, private investigators and police sur-veillance clearly indicate that thousands of extrajudicial killings, mass graves, forensic evidence of decapitations and deaths by drowning, blunt-force trauma and gunshots have everything to do with unregulated militias “protect-ing the border.”
After 18 years of research, the only logical conclusion regarding the disappearance of thousands of migrants as soon as they set foot on US soil is that not all deaths are due to exposure or to cartel violence. It’s irrational to believe that able-bodied travelers from as far as Chile are simply vanish-ing immediately after crossing the border. And reports from ultranationalist outlets like Steve Bannon’s Breitbart that
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it on to each government. It ranges from $17 to $55 pesos every two months, depending on the city, and it’s supposed to maintain and pay for public lighting.
T h e S u p r e m e C o u r t deemed the charge unconsti-tutional since the cities cannot charge extra for this service, as it’s supposed to be paid for with the money received from regular taxes.
Mayor of Ensenada Ar-mando Ayala stated that the new ruling would hit Ensenada hard, which is already known to have severe budget deficits, as they are losing $6.6 million
(USD) every year with the DAP charge cancellation.
Authorities Ask Not To Trick or Treat This Hallow-een. Due to the increase of active coronavirus cases and intubated patients in Baja California, Alonso Perez Rico, head of the State Health Office, and Governor Jaime Bonilla, recommended not taking kids trick or treating this coming
you can purchase ceramic pre-decorated “sugar” skulls online. Some companies even offer free personalization.
The true importance of the
build their dream retirement homes in an idyllic setting by the sea.
Halloween.“Kids are perfect carriers
of Covid. They are the persons who more likely will catch the disease asymptomatically but can transmit it perfectly. I would advise any parents to keep doing social distancing,” said Perez Rico.
Although there has only been a slight increase in ac-tive cases, a more notorious increase has been seen in suspected cases, which most certainly will become active soon.
“It would be a serious mis-take to allow children to go knocking on doors, and it would be an even bigger mis-take to open the door to them because you don’t know if you’re really opening the
door to COVID that night,” stated Governor Bonilla. ,
holiday is remembering and celebrating one’s family. Most extranjeros and expats don’t have altars with ofrendas - of-ferings - at home, but perhaps in appreciation of the local
culture, now is a nice time to dig out some photos of your family (living and passed) and think something nice about each person. Surely you can think of at least one nice thing to say about everybody in your family!
It’s easy to create a small altar on a credenza or by cre-atively re-purposing a multi-layered plant stand. There does not have to be seven steps, or foodstuffs enjoyed by every member of your fam-ily. Frame up a few favorite family photos and just think
about all the fun times you
had when you were all to-gether. There is no reason we can’t enjoy our own personal Día de los Muertos.,
Ensenada developer Carlos Teran acquired the rights to build the Baja Beach & Tennis Club, as well as the dozens of luxury homes that brought Americans to the site in droves.
But in 1987, seven of the original land owners filed suit, challenging the legality of the ejido, claiming that it had
been illegally formed. The slow justice system ground on until finally, in 1996, the Mexican Supreme Court granted prop-erty rights to the original own-ers, who served the residents with eviction notices issued by the Court.
Many of those retirees had spent their life savings to build their new homes, which were valued (at that time’s currency values) of from $50k to well over $1 million USD. Follow-ing their evictions, many (if not most) were devastated, not having enough money left in their retirement funds to purchase another domicile elsewhere.
The onus of that tragedy haunted the Baja Cove area for years afterward.
Things are much different now.
The Punta Banda/Baja Cove area is now a thriving community, a place where “community” has an incalcu-lable value.
Whereas the previous for-eign occupants were living
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I’m sure you all love ta-cos and being a foreigner in Mexico makes you realize how many different varieties of the same dish we have, like tacos. If you’ve never had tacos al pastor (‘shepherd style’), you haven’t really lived in Mexico! An iconic dish across the country, it is most popular and most hailed in Mexico City, where you can eat them day and night. There are good pas-tor recipes and bad ones, and the best one is the simplest!
Tacos al pastor are THE BEST DISH in the world. Yes, just like you read it. The website Taste Atlas, created by journalist Matija Babic, specializes on international gastronomy, released a list of some of the most popu-lar dishes in the world. The website is considered as the Google Maps of food. To make the list, chefs and experts evaluated the dishes that are demanded the most in their countries; in the results, dishes such as enchiladas, burritos, and tacos al pastor stood out, which were crowned as favorites around the world. With 230 evaluations, tacos al pastor was given 4.5 stars, which makes the best dish in the world. They are followed by pizza and lasagna.
Pastor dates back to the early 1900s when Lebanese immigrants ended up set-tling in the state of Puebla, just a couple of hours south of Mexico City. These im-
migrants migrated from the Ottoman Empire due to a multitude of different reasons such as evading military con-scription, escaping violence, and searching for better eco-nomic opportunities. No one can verify the exact date, but around 1930 the first verti-cal roasting spit appeared in Puebla, thought to have been brought by some of those re-cent immigrants. In Puebla the “Antigua Taquería La Oriental and Tacos Arabes Bagdad” claim to be the creators of this dish – both were founded in 1933. The original version of these “tacos arabes” did not have as many spices as tacos al pastor today. Nowadays it’s thinly sliced pork – not lamb, that’s marinated in a variety of spices that could include ground achiote seeds or paste, ground red chiles, and various other herbs.
Each taquero (taco master) makes his or her marinade just a little bit different, some even add orange juice or Coca-Cola – all top-secret recipes. The pork meat is mainly lomo (loin) or pierna (leg) but it must be alternated with layers of fattier cuts like pescuezo (neck), shoulder or breast for just the right tenderness. Keep this last bit in mind when choosing your pork for the recipe. As the pork spins on the trompo, the pork fat heats up and drips down to create a crispy exterior. On top of the trompo, it is common to see
either a pineapple or onion that is sliced off and placed into the taco, the origins of the inclusion of pineapple remain a food mystery to this day.
In some places of northern Mexico, such as Nuevo León, Durango and Chihuahua, these are usually called tacos de trompo if served on corn tortillas, and gringas if they are served with cheese on flour tortillas, but gringas in the rest of the country are a flour quesadilla with pastor meat inside. Delicious. A similar dish is called tacos árabes, which originated in Puebla in the 1930s from Arab Mexican cuisine. Tacos árabes use sha-warma-style meat carved from a spit but are served in a pita-style bread called pan árabe. These tacos have been brought by Mexican immigrants to the United States in the past few years and have become popu-lar in cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, two of the largest Mexican/Mexican-American population centers in the United States. Just like we got a new dish from Leba-nese immigrants, A chicken version marinated in the "al pastor" style was brought back to the Middle East in the early 2000s, and sold as "shawarma mexici". It is typically served in the Middle Eastern style, wrapped with garlic mayon-naise, dill pickle, and french fries in a thin flatbread.
Ingredients:2 ancho chiles, deveined
and hydrated 2 guajillo chiles, deveined
and hydrated ½ bar of achiote paste
(about 7.5 oz)¼ cup of White vinegar ½ cup of fresh Orange juice
(the sourer the better)4 tablespoons of vegetable
oil1 teaspoon of oregano 4 cloves of garlic1 teaspoon of pepper 1 ½ teaspoon of salt (more
or less)2 lb. of pork loin, sliced
thinly 1 cup or finely chopped
white onion1 cup of finely chopped
cilantro 6 limes, sliced A whole pineapple (to
taste)1 lb. of corn tortillas Procedure:In a blender, puree the
chiles, achiote, oregano, garlic, salt, white vinegar and orange juice.
Cover and massage the meat with the achiote mix and let it marinate for about two hours. If you can let it marinate for longer, the better.
In a very hot pan, add the oil and a little sliced onion so the oil gets a nice flavor.
Slice your meat to your lik-ing and sear until crisp around the edges. I personally like my pastor very thin and short, with the edges a little burnt.
Slice your pineapple as
thin or thin as you want it and cook over high heat until caramelized.
Assemble your tacos! To heat the tortillas, it would be great if you could warm them up in the same pan as you did the meat so it soaks up a little grease and lots of flavor. Layer your taco; tortilla, pastor, on-ion and cilantro, a splash of lime and salsa and enjoy!
Bonus: Pineapple on pastor tacos
is great but I prefer it sprinkled with cinnamon and grilled on the side.
Salsa taquera:Everyone has a different
preference for which salsa to use depending on the taco they’re eating, but this salsa is supposedly the best one for pastor tacos.
Ingredients: 1 red tomato (very ripe)3 small green tomatoes ¼ onion2 garlic cloves 1 small can of chipotle
chiles Salt to taste. Procedure: In a small pot, place the
tomatoes, onion and garlic and cover with water.
Cook until the tomatoes change color, let it cool.
In a blender, puree all the ingredients and a little of the cooking water, until you reach the desired consistency. It's better to add water if needed than to have a runny salsa! ,
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much as they did in the States - somewhat aloof - the cur-rent inhabitants have adopted a more Mexican-style attitude toward life here.
A perfect example of the simple lifestyle that nonethe-less embodies all the finer things of a true community is the Baja Cove Beach Com-munity Garden, a project that allows everyone in that neigh-borhood to share in the joys and rewards of growing and exchanging food.
The project idea was a seed sown by Baja Cove resident Jen Keehn, and cultivated and nur-tured by a newly arrived couple from New England, Amy De-Baun and John Kinabrew who moved to the neighborhood in March of this year.
Currently, Amy does the design and planning, and John does the heavy lifting. Both of them are tenacious workers, sharing every burden as well as every benefit of such a de-manding pursuit.
What timing! Just prior to the Covid-19 crisis (and the tragedies that accompanied it), Amy and John had the vision to bring a plan to their neighbors (who later became friends) by which each person could make
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a nominal investment to stake their claims in three adjoining lots; sections of each lot were to be parcelled out in carefully measured units in which each participant could plant, nur-ture, raise and harvest any type of fruit, vegetable, and/or herb that he or she desired.
Amy and John came from New England, where they pursued higher education and developed a passion for environmental issues; they’d established community gar-dens there, too.
Their experience has taught them how to evaluate soil conditions and how to get the most effective results from a garden by properly spacing the plants, placing plants with similar needs regarding nutri-ents and water together, and how to educate each gardener on getting the most from his participation.
Furthermore, they’ve taken into account the fact that a garden is not only a source of food, but is also a sanctuary, a peaceful, quiet source of harmony with nature, a place beyond human frailties.
Amy and John have pro-vided walkways in each section so that gardeners can reach and tend to their plants without stepping on the seedlings.
They’ve accounted for dis-abilities by providing railings
as support for elderly or handi-capped people to enjoy their spaces without fear of falling.
One of the surprises to most people who are first-time gardeners is the volume of food that is produced from a small number of tiny seeds! So most of the gardeners end up with an abundance of whatever their crop may be, whether it’s tomatoes, artichokes or basil, so they can trade with other gardeners, or turn their pro-duce into sauce from tomatoes, pesto from basil, etc.
Part of the project is for vegetables, the other for an or-chard, where several trees have already been planted, including guayaba, peach, lime, apple, mango and fig, with more to come.
The Community Garden has the approval and sup-port of the property manager, Jorge Cortina, who not only participates as a gardener, but supports Amy and John on some of the material challenges inherent in such a large project, such as maintenance of the wa-ter pipes and spigots and the purchase of cinder blocks that
are used to encompass each section of the vegetable garden.
Future plans include the Baja Cove Beach Egg Co-op, which involves the construc-
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drug cartels are murdering migrants wholesale are highly suspect, because it is a clan-destine operation that avoids attention by authorities.
Humane Comprehensive Immigration Reform (HCIR) is the final chapter in the civil rights movement in Ameri-ca. Hispanic-Americans and Latin-Americans are the new targets for white nationalists in dealing with those who are “different.”
In spite of how deeply in-tertwined the American cul-ture is with Mexico and the rest of Latin America, abuses that were once heaped upon blacks have only been trans-ferred to the Mexicans, the favorite put-down by White
House ultra-nationalists to describe anyone from Meso-america (indigenous groups from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) the Caribbe-an, Mexico, Central America, South America and Spain.
It’s time for Congress to launch a vigorous criminal investigation in the Nazi-style murders, disappearances, sexual violence and atrocities along the US-Mexico Border. The United States of America went to war against the Nazis to stop the separation of fami-lies in concentration camps, the incarceration of children, medical experiments on im-migrants, forced sterilizations and the systematic dehuman-ization of migrants. Since Donald Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, atrocities by militias along the US-Mex-ico border have skyrocketed.
baby chicks who can’t wait to grow up and contribute to the food exchange program that she and John have already started.
In less than a year, this couple from New England has already made a positive impact on a community that is an exemplary group of human beings willing to work hard to make the world a better place for everyone.
For more information about this lovely project, or to schedule a visit, please contact Amy or John through the Baja Cove Beach Office at (646) 154-2875.,
It’s time to close once and for all the final chapter of race re-lations in America. Now it’s the Sephardic Jews, Mesoameri-cans and Mexicans who are being targeted for extrajudicial killings, just like the Nazis did in World War II. These extra-judicial killings need to stop because judging from what happened to the economies of
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Egypt, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and now the United States, our national security depends on it.
Juan B. Botero is an inves-tigative journalist who since 2002 has been researching the infiltration of Eugenics-based fascism and the resulting ex-trajudicial killings of migrants along the US-Mexico border. ,
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