I'm still alive...but I can barely walk. My appointment with the orthopedic specialist isn't for another almost two weeks, and this is horrible. But hopefully we will be able to set up knee replacement surgery within the next couple of months. For pain, I'm taking heavy duty Tylenol which is supposed to last eight hours, but for me, it only lasts if I'm lucky two hours. So, my house is a disaster, can't go up and down the stairs without screaming and I'm lucky if I can get dinner together and then there are the cats.
So far, we've had eight feral cats spade with their shots. Five of those stayed on, the others left. A neighbor is also trying to take care of the cats, but she really can not even afford cat food. If you are a cat person you already know that Walmart doesn't even have cat food due to a shortage. So, I've been buying it from Amazon and if you are thinking of doing this, hurry up before they raise the prices even more..
There are hundreds of these feral cats here, and I can't keep up. Dr. Silva charges a hundred dollars for females, eighty dollars for males for their "fix" and shots. But of course you have to trap them. Last night there were twenty here for some chow, and it really is sad, they are starving. I'm just afraid someone is going to start shooting them or poisoning them same way they would do with the stray dogs who hang out at the garbage dump in Punta Banda. BTW, the ones who stayed are absolute darlings and so sweet. Paris is not thrilled about any of this.
What happened to the drug war?
It's still happening and it is bad all around us. Go here for current information and later I'll give you some more links with current stats, dunno when I can make it back here.
Okay it is later. Here is the official state site for the stats which covers all of the Municipalities. You may notice the stats here come up a tad shy from what we read and hear on the Mexican News. Generally, however, they somehow catch up with the rest of us, but it is always a good source. Currently Zeta reports in Tijuana this month of July there have been 148 executions bringing the YTD total to 1,164 dead.
UPDATE: WE ARE PRESENTLY UP TO 159 PEOPLE EXECUTED IN TIJ THIS MONTH, GIVING A YTD TOTAL OF 1,181 DEAD:
Destacados Redacción Zeta miércoles, 28 julio, 2021 11:27 AM
"When he was aboard a Jetta vehicle, black color, a man, until now unidentified, was wounded by a bullet and his car hit the chain link fence of a house located in the vicinity of the Hacienda Linda Vista neighborhood, in Tijuana, the afternoon of Tuesday, July 27.
According to information provided to ZETA by the police forces, it indicates that around 3:00 p.m. the emergency center was informed that a car had collided with a fence and a male person was injured, apparently by firearm projectile.
Municipal Police officers and paramedics from the Red Cross arrived at the site, and they saw a man with a robust complexion and dark complexion, with a wound on his left leg as well as reddish-brown spots on various parts of the body. According to a companion of the injured, who was allegedly lying in the back seat, they were driving through Vista Hermosa and Bugambilias streets when he heard that the driver began to argue with a person who was aboard a gray Cherokee truck, without having more details. Following the information provided by the witnesses, the police officers conducted a tour of the area, locating a unit with similar characteristics, abandoned meters later.
Two hours later on La Joyita and El Mexicano streets in the Tres de Octubre neighborhood, it was reported that a Honda Odissey wagon, gray color, California license plates, had several bullet wounds in the body and apparently there was an injured person inside .
Police elements corroborated the report pointing out that inside the unit there was a male person, with a light brown complexion, and who was wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans, a black cap and with gunshot wounds to the head. abdomen and left arm, however the paramedics determined that the victim still had vital signs for which she was transferred to clinic 20 of the IMSS, where she finally died.
It should be noted that seven 45-caliber weapon casings were found at the crime scene.
In neither of the two cases are detained persons reported.
So far in July there have been 159 intentional homicides."
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~ From GESI:
Estadistica Estatal y Municipal
Check out what has been happening down in Ensenada, particularly if you are considering going down there:
~ From Zeta:
Noroeste de Ensenada, Foco Rojo de Robos Violentos
Edición Impresa: Lorena Lamas ~ lunes, 26 julio, 2021 12:00
"According to police reports, in the first six months of this year, at least 346 people were victims of robbery with violence, the majority perpetrated by armed hand. The crime is concentrated in 13 neighborhoods and the delegations of Maneadero and Valle de Guadalupe
Passersby, merchants, employees of supermarkets and drivers, reported to the Control, Command, Communication and Computing Center (C4) at least 27 robberies with violence perpetrated during June and until July 21 in Ensenada.
“The problem is that the assaults are more and more frequent and with firearms. They are already more aggressive! ”, Warned an agent of the State Security and Investigation Guard (GESI) in Ensenada, who is investigating the crime of robbery.
In his opinion, the assaults are "daily bread" for the police group, in addition to the fact that they do not have an identified criminal gang.
Violent robberies have been consecutive in the last two months, so much so that on July 4 alone there were three: at 10:00 a.m., in the Valle de Valle de Guadalupe, a man who was driving a Ford Explorer vehicle was threatened by two subjects, who stripped him of the unit. At 8:25 p.m., in the streets of September 16 and Panama of the Lázaro Cárdenas neighborhood, two subjects threatened another driver to take away the Chevrolet Ionix model 2021 vehicle , his cell phone and 800 pesos in cash. Two hours later, on Mexico Street in the Cuauhtémoc neighborhood, a thousand pesos were stolen from an employee of an Oxxo store .
On July 7, the series of violent assaults was repeated, and at 2:00 p.m., in another Oxxo store on Avenida Esmeralda, cash was stolen. On Diamante and Reforma streets, they also robbed the Don Cruz Seeds and Cereals business , taking 8 thousand pesos in cash; and a few hours later, at the Ensenada pharmacy on Cortez and Mexico streets, they took 600 pesos.
ZETA interviewed an employee of a self-service store located on First and Ruiz streets, who mentioned that he did not feel safe, as he had been the victim of an armed robbery. To avoid security problems, he has preferred to replace the money from products that some subjects steal, instead of reporting to the Municipal Police.
"I'm not afraid, that's why we have the door open day and night, to go out and we don't leave much money in the box," said the 20-year-old.
On the part of the Municipal Public Security Directorate (DSPM), the actions implemented have not been sufficient to stop the crime of robbery or inhibit it according to the statistics of the State Attorney General's Office.
On June 11, the operational deputy director of the Security Directorate, José Luis Peralta, assured that they are working in coordination with the three levels of government to reduce the problem of robberies and assaults in the port.
At that time he spoke of implementing weekly operations, with information from C4 to develop "what they call the top colonies" -more insecure-, while the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) would be in charge of the strategy.
According to police reports, the red light of robberies and assaults is concentrated in neighborhoods of the Maneadero delegation, Oriente Circuit, Nueva Ensenada, Airport, Aviation, Terrazas del Gallo, Mission, Costa Azul, Libertad, Nueva Reforma, Arcoíris, Zona Centro, Valle Dorado, Popular 89 and the Wine Route in the Valle de Guadalupe.
NEW PROSECUTOR WILL PURSUE THEFT
According to statistics, as of June 30, 2021, 131 businesses had suffered an assault, 93 of these with violence.
As for vehicles, 688 were stolen, of which 37 were violently stolen; They also attacked 300 houses and, in 13 of these cases, the subjects resorted to violence. There were also 137 assaults on public roads and in 117 there was violence.
There is another concept in the statistics of the prosecution that is called "other robberies", with 366 cases, in 86 there was violence. In total, 346 people have been victims of robbery with violence.
On Thursday, July 1, agent Rafael Orozco Vargas, who served as coordinator of the Homicide Unit in the Mexicali Regional Prosecutor's Office, assumed the title of the Ensenada Regional Prosecutor's Office, replacing Víctor Miguel Guerra Enríquez.
Although one of the strongest problems in the port is the homicide rate, which according to GESI statistics reached 215 in the first six months of 2021, these cases are handled by the Special Prosecutor for Crimes against Life.
Orozco Vargas is charged with implementing actions to reduce the incidence of robberies.
ZETA requested information from the regional prosecutor's office to learn about progress in the matter, however, they denied the information.
" THE PROBLEM IS OVERWHELMING US": CANACO
Ensenada merchants demanded that the president of the National Chamber of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Canaco-Servytur), Rafael Chávez Montaño, advocate for the union before the police authorities.
The leader of the vendors in the port has a group of lawyers within Canaco, with experience in public service, who lead the meetings with those responsible for security, although he acknowledged: “The problem is overtaking us. I'm not going to tell you how to do it -the work-, but I can demand that the government give results ”, since the affiliates are pressuring the leader of the Chamber to also give results.
“We merchants need security to work, the thief will always look for merchants. First he is going to blackmail him, he is going to ask for a flat and, if they do not pay him, they are going to assault him, ”said Chávez.
The Canaco leader mentioned that there are business employees who refuse to report criminals when a robbery is recorded, because sooner or later they go free and return in search of revenge.
For his part, in his protest, the recently appointed president of the Ensenada Business Coordinating Council (CCEE), Orlando Fabiel López Acosta, said that to achieve economic and social development, peace and tranquility are needed.
“In this vein, we are immersed in a serious problem, due to the phenomenon of insecurity that we face, which although it is true, is not an exclusive problem of the Municipality and the State, it affects everyone. Organized businessmen do a respectful but energetic exhortation to our governments to act effectively ”, he said.
And he offered to work in conjunction with the three orders of government to find a solution to the serious problem of thefts, "the business sector is not an enemy of the government, on the contrary, we can be its best allies, therefore we offer our experience and our capacity sincerely and honestly to help them successfully carry out the task that citizens have conferred on them through the democratic vote, both to the current authorities and to those who will soon begin their administration ”, as Mayor Armando Ayala Robles refuses to hold a closed-door meeting with the CCEE."
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Mandates....
Well, finally some mandates for people to get the vaccine - I still don't understand why the whole freakin country isn't under mandate - they did mandate the smallpox vaccine with only a couple of lawsuits, and this is worse ! Not to mention that we are probably going to be experiencing more pandemics not so far down the line. Yea, I know, there are many folks who believe that it would be a good thing to just eliminate the human race and give the earth back to nature...but I'm not quite ready for that one yet.
And, what about the Lambada Variant ?
~ From CNN:
Biden Will Announce Vaccination Requirements Across Federal Government On Thursday
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Clips of Romesh from BBC: ROMESH !
Okay, so we've been watching a lot of Ramish I mean Romesh, I adore him and it was a big switch from Mr. Inbetween...but you have to watch this one:
I'm not really a horse person, but I loved everything about this movie...some critics said it was too unrealistic for today's times even though it is based on a true story, but it pulled my heartstrings. We're going to finish it tonight. Watch it, you won't regret it, I know that sounds corny but so what !
Headed for a dead sea mineral knee soak and then a nap...
Over & Out for now....