tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87771713182050238862024-03-13T15:55:09.667-06:00Mexican TrailrunnerA humorous look at ramblin' and rovin' south of the border. If you're interested in the perspective of a boots-on-the-ground, non-gringolandia-living-expat in Mexico. . .join me.
I will continually ask the question. . .is there life after EMS?- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.comBlogger233125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-9621317027672990632012-08-22T19:19:00.000-05:002012-08-22T19:19:28.287-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and not so much </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my blog.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"><b>All 3 of my books are now up on Amazon/Kindle and Smashwords</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>(a memoir of my parents love story in Hawaii - 1936 </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Download it for free at </span><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/" style="cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: start;" target="_blank">https://www.smashwords.com/</a><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;"> </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">- type 'Take Next Boat'</span></b></span></span></div>
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- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-28040991381376582602012-06-30T12:41:00.001-05:002012-06-30T13:41:48.477-05:00The Rainy Season June 2012<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">followed by torrential downpours alternating with episodes of light rain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">has this morning reverted back to being a street again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">crisp cool air, big tufts of iridescent green grass between the cobblestones,</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">The aroma of a savory pot of split-pea soup simmering</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">on the stove and homemade gluten-free corn bread</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">just us tough old stalwarts and the Mexicans</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">reuniting and enjoying each others company once again. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 17px; text-align: left;">I so love it here!</span> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey! Joe!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're hiking along with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of my former co-workers,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">retired San Bruno firefighter Joe Telles,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">embarked on his # 1 bucket list dream</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this spring:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexico to Canada - 2650 miles, btw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, at least that's the plan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Follow along and see if he makes it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think he'll make it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">his joys in this trail journal:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=370942"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">JOE TELLES HIKES THE PCT</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've got blisters on me feets from just reading it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>GO JOE!!!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-62530788049793501612012-06-11T22:09:00.000-05:002012-06-11T22:09:42.811-05:00Food - One of My Greatest Passions - Part 2 June 2012<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OK, since you guys liked Penny so much,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have another treat for you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Karen Shinto</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a Bay Area food stylist!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Food artist! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simply amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.kshinto.com/#/Portfolio/food%201/1/"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Karen Shinto Food Stylist</span> </b></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was going to add her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the last post</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but decided it might steal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a little of Penny's well-deserved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thunder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karen deserves a post all her own.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>EAT MORE PLANTS!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Photo courtesy of <a href="http://occupy-monsanto.com/">Occupy Monsanto</a></span></div>
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<br /></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-15325377165142617782012-06-06T19:35:00.001-05:002012-06-06T20:03:56.444-05:00Food - One of My Greatest Passions June 2012<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet my hands-down favorite food</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photographer</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and foodista:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Penny de los Santos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here she is on Ted Talk reporting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on photographing a meal at the end of Ramadan in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">war-torn Lebanon </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with eight Iraqi refugees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was on assignment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is her website,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">click on her portfolio for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unbelievably clever</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photos of unbelievably</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beautiful food!</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.pennydelossantos.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.pennydelossantos.com/</span></a>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>¡BUEN PROVECHO, AMIGOS!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-64775644776660733142012-05-10T20:27:00.000-05:002012-05-12T19:53:11.896-05:00¡Ya Basta! No More Violence!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>PUTTING A FACE TO THE VIOLENCE</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a bad day today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's Mother's Day - in Mexico -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we should be happy. Celebrating!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maria and Mario Paz Garcia</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in their restaurant <a href="http://www.accesslakechapala.com/guide/restaurants/marios/">Mario's</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great food, great service, and really</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nice people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning the church bells pealed the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">death knell and this couple received notice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that their son - and only child - was among</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the 14 or more bodies found stuffed into two vehicles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">along the highway connecting Guadalajara</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Lake Chapala.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He and 2 of his friends were playing basketball</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on the Ajijic malecón about a week ago when they were</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">snatched at gunpoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No demand was ever uttered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abel Paz Encisco was the director of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Balet Folklorio San Antonio Tlayacapan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and engaged to be married.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Descanse en Paz, Abel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a friggin' waste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-86035325233787229602012-05-04T18:52:00.000-05:002012-05-04T19:01:41.872-05:00A Small Story About Giving May 2012<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a small story</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">that has come to me from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jack Kornfield</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of <a href="https://www.spiritrock.org/home">Spirit Rock Meditation Center</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by way of Anne Lamott -</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life/dp/0385480016">Bird by Bird</a>.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By far, one of my favorite writers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>GIVING</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An eight year old boy had a six year old sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who was dying of leukemia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His parents explained to him that she needed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a blood transfusion or she would die.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They told him that she needed a donor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and that his blood was probably compatible</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to hers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They asked him if he would be willing to donate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a pint of blood to his sister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as it could be her only chance of living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He said he would have to think about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it overnight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day he went to his parents</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and said he was willing to donate his blood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They took him to the hospital where he was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">placed on a gurney alongside his sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The IVs were started and a pint of blood</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">was withdrawn from the boy and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">transfused into his ailing sister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the blood dripped into his sister,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he boy lay in silence</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">until the doctor came over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to ask him how he was doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The boy opened his eyes and said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"How soon until I start to die?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-77144350890064055732012-04-18T12:15:00.001-05:002012-04-18T13:07:21.498-05:00Where There's a Will. . .There's a Way! April 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cihuatlán, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jalisco library - on the hoof.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compliments the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002526474624">Cihuatlán, Jalisco</a> FB website.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-70479016631830371892012-04-07T14:39:00.001-05:002012-04-07T18:06:33.318-05:00¡Feliz Pascua! - Happy Easter! April 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every year at this time,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Lake Chapala area hosts</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">thousands of visitors</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for the two week Easter blowout celebration</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">known as <i>Semana Santa</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Passion Plays of Ajijic</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and San Antonio Tlayacapan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are one of our biggest attractions and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">go on for days with elaborate costumes</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and sets. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They take place in the church and the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">streets of the villages. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">crucifixion</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">" of Christ </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">used to take place up on the mountain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and everyone hiked it the blazing sun</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">while Jesus dragged a giant cross</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">made of wooden 4X4s.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They had to relocate the scene due to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one year Jesus fainting 4 times on the way up.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The carrying of His body down in an</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">elaborate procession accompanied by the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the droning slow beat of a lone mournful drum</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is VERY emotional.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The acting is wonderful.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I walked the Palm Sunday Procession</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in my little village of San Antonio Tlayacapan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few pictures.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The posters were up; excitement was </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the air.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bFyRIP54cqo/T4CJMCOQcpI/AAAAAAAAEGk/kXNEAY52sMQ/s1600/DSC01847.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bFyRIP54cqo/T4CJMCOQcpI/AAAAAAAAEGk/kXNEAY52sMQ/s400/DSC01847.JPG" width="185" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday morning we found the players assembling in</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">front of the church and under the Jacaranda trees.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2z4i-93LZ3M/T4CJvnFleMI/AAAAAAAAEGs/ir76_U8lOFc/s1600/DSC01851.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2z4i-93LZ3M/T4CJvnFleMI/AAAAAAAAEGs/ir76_U8lOFc/s400/DSC01851.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Townspeople made handicrafts commemorating</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palm Sunday and sold them for 15 pesos/about 1.15US.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Palm branches were handed out to everyone.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ws6OlStW3AU/T4CKR7X3hEI/AAAAAAAAEG0/pWGBVGixoo8/s1600/DSC01854.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ws6OlStW3AU/T4CKR7X3hEI/AAAAAAAAEG0/pWGBVGixoo8/s320/DSC01854.JPG" width="192" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The faithful trickled in and we assembled</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">waiting for Jesus and the the Padre to arrive.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__-7huhRPxA/T4CMAZbqZvI/AAAAAAAAEG8/YAVQznnzAfI/s1600/DSC01858.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__-7huhRPxA/T4CMAZbqZvI/AAAAAAAAEG8/YAVQznnzAfI/s320/DSC01858.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The kids are ALWAYS the cutest.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus arrives.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zL5fzBuqP34/T4CNWlHyB4I/AAAAAAAAEHU/MFG1q7vd7DQ/s1600/DSC01867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="234" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zL5fzBuqP34/T4CNWlHyB4I/AAAAAAAAEHU/MFG1q7vd7DQ/s320/DSC01867.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Padre, the guitarist, the sound system, and the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">altar boys arrive.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Showtime!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--OT5jhWgHuI/T4CP15SNZwI/AAAAAAAAEH8/DQt-YhY0olQ/s1600/DSC01873.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--OT5jhWgHuI/T4CP15SNZwI/AAAAAAAAEH8/DQt-YhY0olQ/s320/DSC01873.JPG" width="165" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We pause for blessings.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tuB8jwWEc9A/T4CQJjgOU6I/AAAAAAAAEIE/omomoup-bvA/s1600/DSC01876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tuB8jwWEc9A/T4CQJjgOU6I/AAAAAAAAEIE/omomoup-bvA/s320/DSC01876.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Villagers join the procession as we pass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">along the narrow cobbled streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Live scenes are scattered along the route.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The procession has swelled!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awaiting Jesus's arrival at the church.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus arrives and Mass begins.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>HAPPY EASTER!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post Script:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, and for the last several years, Jesus was</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">portrayed by a young man from the village who,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in his real life, is an insurance agent. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which lead my friend Barb to comment. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have God as your copilot,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but I have Jesus as my insurance agent!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I win.</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-20475882438258690262012-03-16T17:05:00.000-06:002012-03-16T17:05:06.154-06:00Presenting - THE ONE - THE ONLY - Mexican Sled Dog Team - in the World! Mar 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the great and good fortune to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be invited to join this team on one of their</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">training excursions down here on Lake Chapala.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can imagine what fun I had!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet Cris and Cintia. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since 1993 Captain Cristobal de Obeso Aguilar, 47,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">has been breeding, training, and racing a team of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">16 Siberian Husky sled dogs —</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">out of Guadalajara, Mexico!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His team is the first Mexican team to be a member of the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prestigious </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">International Sled Dog Racing Association</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and they have raced in Colorado, Michigan, Wisconsin,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and even </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">on an Indian reservation </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in Arizona.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How about those credits, pretty impressive, huh?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In his real life, Cris is a corporate private jet pilot</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">who looks forward to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doing much more sled dog racing in the near future.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After spending a few hours with Cris and Cintia and the team,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it is very apparent that for Cris it really is ALL about the dogs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dogs are trained 3 times a week in Guadalajara</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pulling a cart on a track, and here at Lake Chapala</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swimming behind a boat for 60 minutes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's meet the dogs!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, there were 13.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One by one they were loaded into the boat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and attached to the gang-line that had</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">already been rigged.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet Francisco, the unofficial Chapala Harbor Master</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <i>the</i> man to know regarding all-things boat</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and all-things Lake Chapala.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Francisco manned the boat and helped tend the dogs, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">keeping them safely </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">away from the propeller at all times.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No easy feat!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ready?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Off we go.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One by one they were tossed overboard.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We slowly motored off - and they followed.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, all except for Canelo.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just not much of a follower, this guy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Canelo thought Scorpion Island looked</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">like a better place to swim for.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See that little dot?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were a couple of 'arguments' in the water as one</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">perceived some grave injustice had been committed but Cris was </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">able </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to break them up just by yelling at them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of the 13 dogs, only 2 were female.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And of the 13 dogs, 2 had to stay in the boat for most of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the time as they were inclined to only swim back to shore</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rather than join the pack and follow the boat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> They could </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">only be released on the way back.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the 6 years that Cris has been doing this,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">they have only suffered one fatality, a drowning.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cris, Cintia, and Francisco never took their eyes off the dogs</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">or off the clock.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After an hour, it was time to bring the dogs in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One by one they were hauled back in the boat.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thirteen wet dogs means lots of water in the boat.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heading back.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One by one they're loaded back in the truck.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's all folks!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cris can be reached at:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cristobal_de_obeso@hotmail.com</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-90358950911287478102012-03-12T20:11:00.000-06:002012-03-12T20:11:22.673-06:00Violence in Guadalajara March 2012<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You may have noticed I don't write about this stuff.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's here. It happens.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't want to write about it.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Friday it was a little too close to home.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-6871548391884988152012-03-07T16:27:00.000-06:002012-03-07T16:27:13.903-06:00Everyday Life in San Antonio Tlayacapan<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few snaps of day to day life in my pueblo -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">San Antonio Tlayacapan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My tortillaria.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The BEST tortillas ever!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My neighbor Maria is my gardening hero.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only can she grow luscious papayas,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she can grow them in a 5 gallon paint bucket on the street!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Road work on my street.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Refilling <i>baches</i> (potholes) consists of first</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">removing the cobblestones surrounding the</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pothole, filling the space in with sand,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then busting up rocks until they fit</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and filling them into the space.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>By hand, rock by rock, and in the hot sun!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-60458794404811396162012-02-29T19:37:00.002-06:002012-02-29T19:39:25.324-06:00Home Invasion?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I awoke at 12:38 this morning to the sound of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">someone trying to kick in my front door.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I must have been dreaming.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fluffed the pillow and settled back down.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BAM! CRASH!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My front door sounded like the steel and glass</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">were getting ready to cave.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MAGS! GETUM!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I screamed at the dog.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She barked back — </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from the living room!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OMG, there IS someone out there, I whimpered to myself,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she's already in the living room.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A side note: there HAVE been some very brutal</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and deadly home invasions in this area of late</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">so this scenario is not completely unexpected.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I snuck out of bed, made sure no interior light was</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">available, crept out to the kitchen, and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">peeked through the curtains</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> out to the street.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nada.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From there I made my way through the dark dining room, crouched</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">behind the couch, and peered over it into the living room.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nothing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quiet.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Except for the dog that was now leaping and running circles around me</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">then racing to the front door barking and barking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearly trying to warn me of something.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still quiet and nothing to see in the street.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Damn.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do I do now?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is Mexico, calling the cops is not my first thought or line</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of defense — more like my last.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I waited and listened.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dog was getting more and more agitated but still</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nothing showing. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I waited some more.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, with still no sign of anyone or anything amiss</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I decided to let the dog out and see what happens.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sacrificial dog.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I silently opened the front door and the dog flew out</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">into the garden!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where she immediately deposited about a liter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of diarrhea.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>GOOD DOGGIE!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-29641568667459545772012-02-25T18:01:00.003-06:002012-02-25T20:51:12.742-06:00Catch-Up Feb 2012<div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, the guilt, I can't tell you. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got an email the other day:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Write something! Anything! So we know you're ok.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another one today:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I miss your blog.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iWHC8FUEGTw/T0lv2f6cAnI/AAAAAAAAEBc/LuS4kiQCFgU/s1600/image007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="178" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iWHC8FUEGTw/T0lv2f6cAnI/AAAAAAAAEBc/LuS4kiQCFgU/s200/image007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no excuse, well, you want the truth?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The truth is I've been having too much fun to blog.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love my new village of San Antonio Tlayácapan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I love my new house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have reconnected with many friends from</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">when I first moved to Mexico - 8 years ago -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and made lots of new ones.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's a good life.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been moving in, fixing up, and now it's time</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to renovate the garden in front and create</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a container garden on the back patio.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I live smack dab in the middle of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a Mexican village and have great neighbors.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not many of us pale skins here,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">but in a nearby village there are a lot</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of us <i>gabachos</i>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This morning when I got up there was a gift</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tucked over the gate into the garage for Maggie.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two WELL used stuffed dolls, here they are.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SBG5a32sBL0/T0lu1GZwHrI/AAAAAAAAEBU/WLn3tZUUfDM/s1600/DSC01719.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="170" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SBG5a32sBL0/T0lu1GZwHrI/AAAAAAAAEBU/WLn3tZUUfDM/s400/DSC01719.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Isn't that the cutest present!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've had some strange weather, days and days of very dark</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">skies and freezing cold rain.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some people know how to make the best of everything!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What else. . .lemme see. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, speaking of new friends!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hal and Margie just moved to the lake</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and here's the best part - they're from Hawaii too!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And the even better part - they live right</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">around the corner from me! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woohoo</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Together with Sue and Louie, other friends from Hawaii,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">we made a huge luau feast </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and spent hours eating, playing and singing Hawaiian music</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at their house.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Louie Pavao (L) can be seen locally at</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two Spoons on Friday nights 7:30 on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Hal Kaluhiokalani Matthews (R) can be seen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">locally at Olé Ola Thurs nights 5:30 on.</span><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, pau for now!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-25328157552236521462011-12-22T14:57:00.000-06:002011-12-22T14:57:01.728-06:00When Was The Last Time This Happened To You? Dec 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>OR REASON 1,654, 291 WHY I LIVE HERE</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I strolled up my street </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the little abarrote and fruteria </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(mom and pop market and fruit store) on the corner</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got a half kilo of roasted peanuts, 2 sweet mandarins,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">five Dominica bananas, and a large heavy</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ripe cantaloupe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Total cost - 38 pesos or $2.75 US.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But wait! That's not the story!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The story is. . .when I put the cantaloupe on the scale</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the girl said "Oh no, Señora, this one has a bad spot,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">let me get a better one," and off she went to the display</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to find one without a bad spot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There wasn't one.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were all over ripe and perfect for an</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Agua Melón (melon water) which is what I wanted it for.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So back she comes to the scale, takes out her knife</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and promptly cuts out the 'bad spot', THEN</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">weighs it, bags up my purchases and hands them over</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a smile and a gracias.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No charge for the bad spot.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-20431225285984668382011-12-20T21:46:00.000-06:002011-12-20T21:46:20.197-06:00Sub Comandante Marcos Speaks - Leader of the EZLN Zapatista Movement Dec 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<b style="margin-left: 20px;">Opinion: Sub-Commandante Insurgente Marcos</b></span></td></tr>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>(FOURTH LETTER TO Don Luis Villoro, Mexican philospher and intellectual, in their exchange on Ethics and Politics)</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>A DEATH… OR A LIFE</b><br />
October-November of 2011.</div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">“He who names, calls. And someone responds, without prior notice, without explanation,</i><br />
<i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">to the place where their name, spoken or thought, is calling them,</i><br />
<i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">When this happens one has the right to believe that nobody leaves for good</i><br />
<i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">as long as the word that calls, flaming, brings them.”</i>Eduardo Galeano.<br />
“Ventana sobre la Memoria”, in Las Palabras Andantes. Ed. Siglo XXI.</blockquote><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">For: Luis Villoro Toranzo.<br />
From: Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Don Luis:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Health and greetings to you.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">First of all, congratulations on your birthday November 3rd. We hope that with these letters you also receive the affectionate hug that, although from a distance, we give you.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">So let’s continue this interchange of ideas and reflections. Though it will now be more solitary because of the media din around the definition of the names of the 3 rogues that will compete for rule over the bloody soils of Mexico.</div><div class="article-left-box-wrapper" style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div class="article-left-box" style="background-color: #f4f6eb; border-bottom-color: rgb(228, 229, 223); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(228, 229, 223); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(228, 229, 223); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; clear: left; float: left; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><div height="600" width="160"><center></center></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">With the same frenzy that they issue receipts for “expenses in image promotion,” the media align themselves with one side or the other. They all concur that the shameless blundering displayed by each of their respective aspirants can only be covered up by making even more noise over those of their competitors. The season of Christmas shopping fury now coincides with the sale of electoral proposals. Of course, like the majority of items sold in this season of the year, there is no warranty and no possibility of return.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After the burial of his now ex-secretary of government, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa ran joyfully to the “happy ending” to demonstrate that what is important is to consume, no matter that the Secretaries of State are perishable and carry an unadvertised expiration date.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But even in the middle of the noise there are sounds that pulse for those who know how to look for them and have the daring and patience to do so.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And in these lines that I send you now, Don Luis, palpitate deaths that are lives.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>I.- The power of Power.</b></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">“The freedom of election lets you choose the salsa with which you will be eaten.”</i><br />
Eduardo Galeano.<br />
“Ventana sobre las Dictaduras Invisibles” Ibid.<br />
<i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">“Let the whores govern, judge, and take care of us, since their sons have failed to do so. ”</i><br />
Taken from the blog <i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;"><a href="http://laputarealidad.org/" style="color: #004477; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">laputarealidad.org</a></i></blockquote><br style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I must have read it or heard it somewhere. It was something like, “power is not having a lot of money, but rather lying and having many people believe you, having everybody believe you, or at least those that matter.”</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">To lie greatly and do so with impunity, that is Power.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Gigantic lies that include acolytes and disciples and that give them validity, certainty, status.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Lies made electoral campaigns, government programs, alternative projects of the nation, party platforms, newspaper and magazine articles, radio or television commentaries, slogans, creeds.<br />
And the lie can be so big that it is not static. It changes, not to make itself more effective, but to test the loyalty of its followers. The bad guys of yesterday will be the blessed with a few page turns of the calendar.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Is Power—or its proximity—the great corruptor?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Do men and women come to power with great ideals and it is the perverse and perverting action of Power that obliges them to betray those ideals to the extent that they act contrary to and in conflict with them?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">From full employment to the bloody (and lost) war…<br />
From the “mafia of power” to the “loving republic”…<br />
From the “six thousand pesos monthly will cover everything” to “not even in the happy ending can I find a poll that favors me…”<br />
From “My god make me a widow” to “Lupita D´Alessio, make me a lion in front of the lamb…”<br />
From the San Angel group to the palatial Yunque<br />
From the…from the…the… sorry, but I can’t find anything significant that Enrique Peña Nieto has said…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">What’s more, I can find anything he has said at all, as if he was a bad B actor, the type that appear on soap operas and blabber some speech that no one even corrects.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">What’s more, given the obvious, it wouldn’t be a bad idea for him to register himself in the CEA of Televisa (according to the curriculum, as of the first year they teach “verbal expression”).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I know very well that the media have “read” Peña Nieto’s photograph of registry as the only precandidate of the PRI (where the principal characters of that party appear) as a sign that this man has party support.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Hmm… at first glance it looks to me like a photo accompanying a newspaper article about a new blow to organized crime. That they had dismantled another band of thieves, but that the bullet-proof vest with which they usually like to display the guilty had been replaced by the red shirt.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Later I looked more carefully at the photo. Look my dear, they are not making a show of support. This is a group of vultures that have realized that Peña Nieto is no more than a puppet orphan and that they need to get a hand in the mix because upon arriving at the presidency, it isn’t him that will matter but rather the ventriloquist that manages him.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">His designation as presidential candidate will be one more demonstration of the decomposition of the Institutional Revolutionary, and the dispute over who will manage him will be a fight to the death (and for priistas this is not rhetorical).</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">How pathetic the situation must be that even Héctor Aguilar Camín offers himself up for adoption… and for the urgent need to make literate the poor man.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Thus, we continue to ask:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Is it Power that corrupts or does one have to be already greatly corrupted to take Power, to maintain oneself in Power, or to aspire to get there in the first place?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In one of the long drives of the Other Campaign, passing through the capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, I commented that the Chiapan governor’s chair must have something that converts averagely intelligent people into stupid bosses with the posture of tyrants. Julio was driving, Roger was the copilot. One of them asserted, “or they were already that way and that’s why they came to be governors.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And later added the following anecdote, something like this: “A woman was passing by the building where congress was in session and heard yells: “Stupid! Idiot! Whore! Thief! Criminal! Killer! Fraud!” and other even ruder expressions. The woman, horrified, turned to a man outside the office reading a book. “This is a scandal,” she said, “we maintain them with our taxes and these representatives don’t do anything but fight and insult each other.” The man looked at her, then at the legislative chambers, and turning back to his book, said: “they aren’t fighting or insulting each other, they’re calling roll.”<br />
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<b>II.- Power and Reflection on Resistance .</b></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">The Left is the Voice of the Dead. </i><br />
Tomás Segovia. 1994.</blockquote><br style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Hmm… Power… the evidence is unquestionable, the wet dream of the intellectuals from above, the reason for being of the political parties…</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Now, with the death of the master Tomás Segovia, we name him, we call him, and we bring him to sit at our side in order to, together, reread some of his texts.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Not his poems, but rather his critical reflections on and in front of Power.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Few, very few, are those intellectuals who have tried to understand, not judge, this turbulent walk that is ours and that we call “zapatismo” (or “neozapatismo” for some). In this sparse list appear, among others, Don Pablo González Casanova, Adolfo Gilly, Tomás Segovia and you, Don Luis.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We embrace all of them, and you, as only the dead embrace, that is, to life.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And those who remember Tomás Segovia only as a poet do so in order to extract this man from his liberatory being. Since Don Tomás can’t do anything now to defend himself or his word, those homages of the “cut and paste” type circulate, editing and arranging the friendly pieces, leaving the uncomfortable ones to oblivion… until other uncomfortable ones remember them and name them.<br />
And in order not to interpret his words (which could be seen as a friendly form of usurpation) I transcribe here parts of some of his writings.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 1994, at the height of the punishing euphoria of the right, and this is indeed a cultured right because it was headed by Octavio Paz (with businessman Enrique Krauze as one of his courtiers—oh don’t get worked up don Krauze, one can’t scold intellectuals for being of the right or left; rather, as is your case, only for using, in order to stand out, not intellect but rather adulation of the kind of gangsters that now form the government), Tomás Segovia wrote the following (emphasis mine):</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">Whenever one or another form of fascism prevails, truth and justice take the shape of Resistance.</i><br />
<i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">But one could also say that the left is constitutively resistance. Without doubt, the left fell in our century into an unsalvageable historical error, but this error consists very obviously in the belief that the left could take power. The left in power is a contradiction, as the history of this century has clearly shown us (…)<div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px;">Today it is clear, I believe, that the left is not the other of the right, with both situated in a relation of symmetric opposites with respect to power. The left is above all the other of power, the other sphere and the other meaning of social life, what was buried and forgotten in constituted power, the return of the oppressed, the voice of the dispossessed before it became that of the poor (and that of the poor only because they are by majority, but not exclusively, the dispossessed)—the left is the Voice of the Dead.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px;">One of the most damaging ideas was that of the “reactionary” that let us think that the right was opposed to progress, that the right is resistance and that it speaks for the past, for the roots, for that which has been overcome. In that sense, the left became convinced that resistance was power in the sense that it was of the right and that it opposed the progressiveness of the left in its tentative desperation to conserve its privileges and its domination, without seeing that power, the same from the right or from the left, is only resistance in a different and much simpler sense: it is resistance to being substituted by another power, whether from the right or the left; but with regard to history power is always progressive.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px;">In Mexico, as is custom, this is seen with particular acuity given the crudity of the relations of power in this country: today we know for sure that no government was more decided and actively progressive than that of Porfirio Díaz, and that today it is the PRI that monopolizes and exploits the rhetoric of progress, of change, of modernization, of the overcoming of nostalgias and the “emissaries of the past,” and even of democracy.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px;">(This makes me think also that democracy in power of power is a contradiction: democracy is not “demoarchy”—the people in power is a utopia or metaphor, dangerous to take seriously <b>because “the people,” if we imagine this exists or even that it exists only as entelechy, it is by definition what is not in power, the other of power).</b></div><div style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px;">But, my enchanting colleagues, when they give themselves up to government knowing that their promises are false, is that because they are seduced? Impossible: seduction is desire in its pure state, it implies the brilliant vision that your joy is my joy. <b>No vision is possible in which the joy of Power is the joy of the “people.”</b></div></i></blockquote><i style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><br />
</b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And in 1996 he stated:</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 1.3;">In parallel, in a country that no longer practices the violent prohibition of direct expressions of primary social life, it is the ideology of power that blackmails us, calling us whores—that is, destructive, negative, resentful, morose—or, they will try to persuade us, as the pundits and intellectuals tried to persuade the Zapatistas, as my colleagues (starting with Octavio Paz) try to persuade me, that the “true” form of self-expression and influence in social life is to enter the institutions, or whatever is instituted in general.</i></blockquote><br style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><center>-*-</center></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Don Luis, I believe you would agree with me in that, responding to these provocative texts of Tomás Segovia, this reflection on Ethics and Politics should touch on the question of Power.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Perhaps on another occasion, and calling upon others, we could exchange ideas and feelings (that are the deeds that animate these reflections) on this question.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">For now, we send this call out to Don Tomás Segovia, who declared that he didn’t have time not to be free and without shame confessed: “almost all of my life I have earned an honest living, that is, not as a writer.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is not just to bring to this page his unredeemed word, because it is relevant to the moment or question.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">It is also, and above all, because more than a poet of both sides, he is a thinker that opened a third door to the Zapatista indigenous movement. Looking, seeing, hearing, and listening, Don Tomás Segovia walked through that door.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">That is to say, he understood.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>III.- Power and the Practice of Resistance.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Zapatista Autonomous Municipality in Rebellion, San Andrés Sacamchen de Los Pobres, Highlands of Chiapas. The morning of September 26, 2011, Comandante Moisés left to work in his coffee field. Like all of the ELZN leaders, he did not receive any salary or stipend. Like all of the EZLN leaders, he had to work to maintain his family. His sons were with him that day.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The vehicle in which they were traveling went off the road. All were injured, but the injuries that Moisés suffered were mortal. By the time they arrived at the clinic at Oventik he had died.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In the afternoon, as it is custom in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to cultivate rumors, the death of Moisés had attracted scavenger journalists who thought that it was Lieutenant Colonel Insurgente Moisés who had died. When they found out that it wasn’t him, but rather the other Moisés (Commander Moisés), they lost interest completely. None of them could be interested someone who hadn’t appeared publicly as a leader, someone who had simply been in the shadows, someone who was apparently one more indigenous Zapatista…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The calendar was at about 1985-1986. Moisés heard about the EZLN and decided to join the organizational effort when in the Chiapas highlands you could count the Zapatista on two hands, and you’d have extra fingers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">With other compañeros (including Ramona), he began to walk the mountains of the Mexican southeast, but now with the idea of organization. His small figure would walk out of the clouds and into the small tzotzil hamlets in the Highlands. And his unhurried words would outline the long history of offenses against those who are the color of the earth.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“We must struggle,” he would conclude.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In the early hours of the first day of January of 1994, as one combatant among many, he came down from the mountains to the haughty city of San Cristóbal de Las Casas He was part of the column that took the municipal presidency, forcing the surrender of the government force that guarded it. Along with other tzotzil members of the CCRI-CG, he leaned over the balcony of the building that looked out on the main plaza. In the back, in the shadows, he heard one of his compañeros reading the “Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle” to a multitude of incredulous and skeptical mestizos and hopeful indigenous. Along with his troop, he retreated to the mountains during the first hours of the January 2, 1994.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">After resisting the bombings and incursions waged by governmental forces, he returned to San Cristóbal de las Casas as part of the Zapatista delegation that participated in what were called the Cathedral Dialogues with representatives of the supreme government.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He came back and kept walking among the towns to explain, and above all, to listen.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“The government does not have the answer,” he concluded.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Along with thousands of indigenous, he built the Aguascalientes II, in Oventik, when the EZLN was still suffering persecution under Zedillo.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">He was one of the thousands of indigenous Zapatistas that, with bare hands, faced off against the column of federal tanks that wanted to position themselves in Oventik in those fateful days of 1995.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 1996, in the dialogues of San Andrés he was one of the many who kept vigil over the Zapatista delegation, surrounded as it was by hundreds of soldiers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">On foot, in the icy dawns of the Chiapas Highlands, he bore the rain that made the solders run for cover. He didn’t move.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“Power is a traitor,” he said, as if apologizing.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 1997, with his compañeros, he organized the tzotzil Zapatista column that participated in the “March of the 1,111,” and collected vital information in clarifying the Acteal Massacre that occurred on December 22 of that year, perpetrated by paramilitaries under the direction of Mario Renán Castillo, general for the federal army, and with Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Emilio Chuayfett, and Julio César Ruiz Ferro as intellectual authors.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 1998 he organized and coordinated the support and defense provided in the Chiapas Highlands to the compañeros displaced by the attacks on the autonomous municipalities by “Croquetas” Albores Guillén and Francisco Labastida Ochoa.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 1999 he participated in the organization and coordination of the tzotzil Zapatista indigenous delegation that participated in the national referendum, when five thousand Zapatistas (2500 women and 2500 men) traversed every state of the Mexican Republic.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In 2001, after the betrayal of the entire Mexican political class of the San Andres Accords (the PRI, PAN, and PRD allied themselves to block constitutional recognition of the rights and culture of the original peoples of Mexico), he continued his work in the tzotzil villages of the Highlands, talking and listening.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But then, after listening, he would say, “we must resist.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Moisés was born April 2, 1956, in Oventik.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Without intention and, most importantly, without any pay or profit, he became one of the most respected indigenous leaders of the EZLN.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Just a few days before his death, I saw him in a meeting of the Revolutionary Indigenous Clandestine Committee-General Command of the EZLN, where we analyzed the local, national, and international situation, and debated and decided on the steps to take.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We explained that a new generation of Zapatistas was coming into leadership positions. Young people, men and women, that were born after the uprising and that grew up in resistance, who were educated in the autonomous schools and are now chosen as autonomous authorities and become members of the Good Government Councils.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We discussed and agreed on how to support them in their work, accompany them. How to build the bridge of history between they and the veteran Zapatistas. How we inherit commitments from our dead, and memory, and the duty to go on, to not lose heart, to not sell out, to not give up, to not surrender.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">There was no nostalgia in any of my bosses.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">No nostalgia for the days and the nights that, in silence, they built the force that would become known worldwide as the “Zapatista Army for National Liberation.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">No nostalgia for the journeys in which our word was heard in many corners of the planet.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">There was no laughter either, true. There were serious faces, concerned with finding together a common path.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">There was, this yes, what Don Tomás Segovia once called “nostalgia for the future.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">“We have to tell the story,” said Comandante Moisés, as a form of conclusion, at the end of the meeting. And the Comandante left for his hut in Oventik.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">That morning September 26 of 2011, he left his house saying, “I’ll be back later,” and went to his field to draw from the earth sustenance and more tomorrows.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><center style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>-*- </b></center><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Writing about him, my hands hurt, Don Luis.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Not only because we were together at the beginning of the uprising and later in the bright days and cold dawns. Also, and above all, because in making this rapid outline of his history, I realize I am talking about the history of any of my bosses, men and women, of this collective of shadows that marks our way, our path, our step.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Of those who give us identity and inheritance.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Maybe the coleto rumorologists and their kind are not interested in the death of Comandante Moisés because he was just one shadow more among thousands of Zapatistas. But for us, we are left with a great debt, as great as the meaning of the words that he left me with, smiling, as he departed from that meeting: “The struggle doesn’t end,” he said, grabbing his bag.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><center style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>-*-</b></center><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>IV.- A death, a life</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One could ponder why my words attempt to stretch this complicated and multiple bridge between Don Tomás Segovia and Comandante Moisés, between the critical intellectual and one of the highest indigenous Zapatista leaders.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One could think that it is death, that in naming them we bring them back to us, so much the same because they were, and are, different.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But no, it is their lives that are relevant here.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Because their absences do not produce in us frivolous homages or sterile statues.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Because they leave in us something pending, a duty, an inheritance.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Because in the face of the most fashionable temptations (media, electoral, political, intellectual), there are those who affirm that they will not surrender, will not sell out, will not give up.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And they do it with a word that is only pronounced with authenticity when it lives: “Resistance.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">There above, death is exorcized with homages, sometimes monuments, street names, museums, or festivals, awards with which Power celebrates capitulation, a name in gold letters on some wall to be torn down.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Death is thus affirmed. Homage, heartfelt words, and turn the page to what follows.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">But…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Eduardo Galeano says that nobody leaves for good as long as someone still names them.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And Old Antonio used to say that life was a long and complicated jigsaw puzzle that one could only put together when the inheritors named the dead.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">And Elías Contreras says that death needs to have its size, and that it only has it when it is put alongside a life. And he adds that we must remember, when we lose a piece of the collective heart that we are, that death was and is a life.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Just that.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Naming Moisés and Don Tomás, we bring them here again, making a jigsaw puzzle of their lives of struggle, and we reaffirm that, here below, a death is above all a life.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><center style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>-*-</b></center><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>V.- Until later</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Don Luis:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">I think that with this missive we should end our participation in this useful (it was for us) interchange of ideas. At least for now.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The pertinence of the windows and doors that were opened with the coming and going of your ideas and ours is something that, like everything here, will go about accommodating itself in geographies and calendars that are still to be defined.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We thank with all our heart the accompaniment of the pens of Marcos Roitman, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Raúl Zibechi, Arturo Anguiano, Gustavo Esteva and Sergio Rodríguez Lazcano, as well as the magazine Rebeldía, which served as our host.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">With these texts, neither they, nor you, nor us, seek votes, followers, or disciples.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We seek (and I think we have found) critical, alert, and open minds.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Above they will continue the din, the schizophrenia, the fanaticism, the intolerance, the capitulations disguised as political tactics.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Later will come the hangover: surrender, cynicism, defeat.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Below, the silence and the resistance continue.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Always the resistance…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alright Don Luis. Health, and let it be lives that the deaths bestow upon us.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast.<br />
Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.<br />
Mexico, October-November of 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>VI. The P.S. ATTACKS AGAIN. –</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We weren’t going to say anything. Not because we didn’t have anything to say, but because those who are now rightly indignant about the illiterate slander, also slandered us to the point of burning our bridges to other hearts. Now, small that we are, with our small word, just a few of us, of the persistent kind that tend to be the ones who get the historical wheel rolling, they seek out our opinion, seek us out, name us, call us.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We weren’t going to say anything, but…</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">One of the three rogues that will fight for the throne to rule over the rubble of Mexico has come to our lands and demanded our silence. He is that same person that never matured and never recognized his errors and faults. The same person that heads a group lusting for power, full of intolerance, which sought, seeks, and will seek to blame their own faults and schizophrenias on others. With a discourse closer to Gaby Vargas and Cuauhtémoc Sánchez then to Alfonso Reyes, now he preaches and founds his ambitions on love… for the right.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Those who criticized Javier Sicilia for his show of affection for the political class, will they now criticize the “Loving Republic?”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Those that agreed and preached that Televisa was the evil to defeat, will they now criticize the loving handshake with its primetime lackey?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Will Octavio Rodríguez Araujo now write an article demanding “consistency, leader, consistency”? Will John Ackerman demand of him radicality, arguing that this is what the people want and wait for? Will the ciro-gómez-leyva of La Jornada, Jaime Avilés, denounce him for negotiating with the dogs, the businessmen, his hated López Dóriga? ¿Will the laura-bozzo of La Jornada, Guillermo Almeyra, judge and condemn him as a collaborator (informant), singing his chorus of “let the wretch move on!”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">No. They will look the other way. They will say that it is a question of tactics, that he is using this to earn votes with the middle class. Alright, so nothing is what it seems: the encampment on Reforma was not to demand the recount of votes that would have been clear evidence of the fraud, but rather so people would not become radicalized; the critiques of Televisa were not to denounce the power of the media monopolies, bur rather so that they could have access to that company’s spaces (and become once again its client in the electoral spots). What’s next? The brigades collecting donations for the telethon?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">We could understand that he was just employing a tactic (clumsy and naïve, we think, but a tactic). That he doesn’t seriously believe the businessmen are going to support him, that the dogs are not going to betray him, that the PT and the Movimiento Ciudadano are parties of the left, that Televisa is changing, that his privileged interlocutor in Chiapas should be priismo (as before it was sabinismo). We could even believe that he is more intelligent then all of them and that he is tricking them by simulating his alliance, or exchanging uses and customs in the impossible political game of “everybody wins” and “love and peace.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Okay, it’s a tactic… or a strategy (in any case they don’t understand the difference between the two). What is verifiable is that he keeps adding to his right (deserters of the PAN included) and nothing appears on his left. He follows the same steps as his predecessor, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano, who ingratiated himself with the powerful, betting that the left would have no choice but to support him because “there isn’t anything else.” Okay again, strategy or tactic, it will be explained by the cartoonists. We only ask: when, in Mexico, has it benefited the left to run to the right? When has being servile with the powerful done anything other than entertain them? True, the “dogs” could realize the success of the political tactic (or strategy?), but it’s not about taking that same road again… or is it?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Meanwhile, the cultured attack squads that promote him will continue their juggling acts to justify the change in path… or they will gamble on lack of memory.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">In any case, there won’t be a lack of people to blame for finishing third, right?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Alright then.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c21; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.3; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">El Sup, smoking and waiting for the avalanche of lies that, in the name of “freedom of expression” and under copyright, the opposition prepares from above.<br />
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</div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-7662745708434761782011-12-06T16:20:00.000-06:002011-12-06T16:20:30.244-06:00Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm. . . Dec 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pWct0AOJgPM/Tt6UU0VLsFI/AAAAAAAAEA0/TQmeHwwaKoU/s1600/DSC01630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pWct0AOJgPM/Tt6UU0VLsFI/AAAAAAAAEA0/TQmeHwwaKoU/s400/DSC01630.JPG" width="283" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Seen at a local fair extravaganza.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shop 'till you drop.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please!</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-66864378637097081792011-11-26T12:50:00.001-06:002011-11-26T13:22:57.188-06:00Bela and Manuela at Lake Chapala Nov 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While on a too-short trip to Chiapas in May of this year,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bela, the owner of <a href="http://mexicantrailrunner.blogspot.com/2011/05/tales-of-chiapas-part-2-belas-b-b-may.html">Bela's B and B</a>,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and <a href="http://mexicantrailrunner.blogspot.com/2011/07/tales-of-chiapas-part-6-manuela-cooks.html">Manuela</a>, her wonderful Mayan cook,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and I became fast friends.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They were both here for the past week,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">what a treat to see them again!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They came for the <a href="http://www.mexicoartshow.com/2011maestros.html">Féria Maestros Del Arte</a> -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a once a year extravaganza of artisans from ALL</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over Mexico who come to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">demonstrate their skills</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and sell their wares.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">This year, Bela and Manuela were brought to</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">stay with Carrol at <a href="http://www.lapalomabb.com/">La Paloma B and B</a> in Ajijic</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">and Manuela was commissioned to prepare</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">an indigenous meal from Chiapas.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">They brought special ingredients with them</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">and the dinner was a huge success.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">So much so, they were</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">asked to return next year for an encore!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">So, if you've never been to the Féria - or Lake Chapala</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">for that matter - put it on your calendar for next year</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">and come on down!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Manuela testing out the Fish Chairs at the</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;">Jocotepec malecón.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px;"><br />
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</span></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-28644873207628090562011-11-24T15:28:00.002-06:002011-11-24T15:31:10.680-06:00So Much To Be Grateful For Today! Thanksgiving 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Happy Thanksgiving</span></b><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Simple Gratitude. . .</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beautiful message video</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">wait for it.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-19816625122568356482011-11-21T18:55:00.000-06:002011-11-21T18:55:22.460-06:00Movin'! Nov 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I should say MOVED!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was time.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Done deal!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All settled in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I traded Jocotepec for another little</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mexican village along the shores</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of Lago Chapala.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will introduce you to my</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">new village soon </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and let you see it for yourself.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My moving team:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9IDs2vZEUc8/TsrwvJfAe7I/AAAAAAAAD_c/LjqtNm5UJ1Q/s1600/DSC01626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9IDs2vZEUc8/TsrwvJfAe7I/AAAAAAAAD_c/LjqtNm5UJ1Q/s400/DSC01626.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ken, Kris, Sonia, Dave, and Juan</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We even had some down-home entertainment!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-26MghmJLfjI/TsrxkkhqPTI/AAAAAAAAD_s/7wS9Eea8xwU/s1600/DSC01628.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-26MghmJLfjI/TsrxkkhqPTI/AAAAAAAAD_s/7wS9Eea8xwU/s400/DSC01628.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ken Cardwell - Live and in person.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We dumped my stuff off</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and went for Mahi Mahi tacos</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and cervezas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't get much better than that.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I am blessed to have these peeps for my friends.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-30985738061790630472011-10-23T19:31:00.000-05:002011-10-23T19:31:08.954-05:00Two Forty Five - omg Oct 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by watching the CNN documentary</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zQAOQRpG8k&feature=player_embedded">The Last Heart Attack</a>"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">last Monday night,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I set out early the next morning for the lab</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in order to find out the level of risk</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was living with. . .or the amount of denial</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was in.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The results were back by 3:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Total Cholesterol: 245</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HDL: 72</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LDL: 145</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Triglycerides: 140</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's WITH a cholesterol-lowering medicine.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can look up the guidelines -</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">suffice to say I flunked the test!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I come from a family that could live on lettuce</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and still measure cholesterol in their arteries</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with a spatula.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So! I came home and packed up all</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the meat and dairy in my fridge</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and gave it to a neighbor.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. . .thick cut butcher bacon, pollo asado,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">frozen chicken breasts, doz eggs, box of butter. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Then I threw out the remaining cows milk.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day I bought Rice Dream - Rice Milk</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beverage - for my GF Corn Chex, fresh fruits and dried nuts,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">several different </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grains, spinach, asparagus, more</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">herbs and spices, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">three kinds of potatoes, two kinds of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">mushrooms, artichokes, two kinds of lettuce, a loaf of</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> still-warm </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GF bread, and made a feast for dinner</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will still eat occasional seafood,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eggs in my GF baked foods, and a little olive oil.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In about six months I will retest and we shall see</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how I've been doing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll let you know!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If the numbers are not going down sufficiently</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will become a vegan.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If Bill Clinton can do it, so can I.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>SO, UMMMM, WHAT'S YOUR</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>CHOLESTEROL???</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't let this happen to you!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So, what IS you cholesterol?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Do you know?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Find out!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-91383524027481306132011-10-14T19:33:00.000-05:002011-10-14T19:33:40.969-05:00Fantastic News! Tenacatita! Oct 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes the right thing does happen,</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the following is quoted from today's</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guadalajara Reporter:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span></div><div class="article-tools clearfix" style="clear: both; color: #ababab; display: block; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 780px;"><div class="article-meta" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-transform: uppercase; width: 546px;"><span class="createdate" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/templates/ja_teline_ii/images/vline.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3px;">FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 2011 08:47 </span><span class="createby" style="font-size: 11px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3px; text-transform: uppercase;">MICHAEL FORBES</span></div></div><div class="article-content"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #004b80; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">A district judge who rubber-stamped the eviction of restaurant and businesses owners on Tenacatita beach last year was not qualified to issue the order, the Jalisco Supreme Court has ruled. The September 21 decision gives hope to dozens of families living in nearby El Rebalsito, who may soon be able to return to the beachfront land where they have worked for more than three decades.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The three Novena Sala (Ninth Salon) magistrates ruled that Guadalajara real estate firm Rodenas Inmobiliaria must now make reparations for all damages occurred when state police – acting on the order of the 2nd district court judge in Autlan – forcibly took over the zone in the early morning of August 4, 2010. The eviction resulted from Rodenas’ decades-old dispute over land ownership rights with the local Resbalse de Apazulco ejido.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div class="img_caption left" style="color: #999999; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 18px; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center !important; width: 292px;"><img border="0" class="caption" height="195" src="http://www.guadalajarareporter.com/images/stories/2011/10-15-11-JPGS/10-15-11-1c.jpg" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;" title="The Tenacatita beach is one of Jalisco’s most unspoiled stretches of sand. A real estate developer keen to build a luxury tourist development there is battling locals over ownership rights to the beachfront land." width="292" /><div class="img_caption" style="clear: left; color: #999999; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The Tenacatita beach is one of Jalisco’s most unspoiled stretches of sand. A real estate developer keen to build a luxury tourist development there is battling locals over ownership rights to the beachfront land.</div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Over many years, restaurant and hotel infrastructure has been built in the area to cater to locals and tourists. The business owners even paid the annual fees giving them the privilege of using parts of the federally-owned beach for commercial purposes.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><div class="article-content"><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">The zone was eventually titled to individual ejido members in 2006 under a federal land regularization program. Some lots had already been sold to foreigners and registered in the name of a Mexican citizen (prestanombre). But once the lots were titled, the foreigners were able to own the land through a fideicomiso (bank trust).</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Rodenas director José María Andrés Villalobos – who says he purchased the land from the wife of a former Jalisco governor in 1991 – claims these titles have no validity and that the ejiditarios have been squatting his property for decades. In previous interviews Villalobos has indicated that he wants to build a luxury tourist development beside the undeveloped beach, one of the prettiest in the state.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">A key element of last month’s Jalisco Supreme Court decision was that the Autlan judge was not authorized by law to issue the eviction order that resulted from a previous Mexican Supreme Court ruling determining Rodenas to be the legal owners of the disputed beachfront land.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">“He’s not a federal judge and he exceeded his responsibilities,” explained Everardo Rojas Contreras, El Rebalse de Apazulco ejido’s legal representative, at a press conference this week.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In addition, said Rojas, instead of taking possession of the 42 hectares in dispute, Rodenas has assumed control of more than 140 hectares.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">As expected, Rodenas filed its own appeal (amparo) three days after its unfavorable September 21 ruling. But Rojas is confident this maneuver will come to nothing and expects magistrates to make their review of the case at the end of October and issue a “final decision” sometime in early December.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">“Rodenas will have to open access to the beach immediately and repair the damages that they caused,” Rojas said. “We are in no hurry. It’s been a year since the eviction and we have total confidence in the justice system.”</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Only when residents are allowed back into the zone can the full amount of damages be ascertained, Rojas said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">According to several sources, since securing the zone Rodenas personnel have demolished much, but not all, of the existing infrastructure in the Tenacatita beachfront area. This includes the palapa seafood restaurants that served tourists and locals for more than 40 years, as well hotels and everything in them, such as beds, refrigerators, freezers and televisions.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">If the new ruling stands, Rodenas will be liable for all missing and destroyed items, including boats, motors, electrical equipment, and even a horse, Rojas said.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Armed state police officers – many of them “auxiliaries” employed by a security firm also owned by Villalobos – have been guarding the land ever since the August 2010 eviction. They have allowed some tourists limited access to the beach, although by law all Mexican beaches must have open public access.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">In addition, Rojas said the case raises important questions over a state’s limits on legislative procedure. For this reason, he said, he intends to start legal proceedings against Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez and Police Chief Carlos Najera, whom he said have both supported Rodenas’ illegal case against the ejiditarios.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">Speaking at the press conference, Rojas admitted that Rodenas owner Villalobos – a former head of the local Chamber of Commerce and president of Expo Guadalajara – is powerful and well connected but added that, “while he’s tough, I’m tougher.”</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left;">According to a 2006 profile in El Informador’s “Gente Bien” social supplement, Villalobos trained as a lawyer, and after a spell working in the Infonavit public housing department, ventured into the real estate sector. He mentioned that his business was badly affected by the 1995 economic crisis, so he moved into the security service arena, specializing in tracing stolen vehicles by satellite. His successful security company is now certified to act as Policia Auxiliar Estatal (State Auxiliary Police), whose primary clients are the Jalisco State Government. In the profile, Villalobos talked of how “for the good of the country,” businessmen should strive to work “hand-in-hand” with the working-class.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div></div></span>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-40799116457946564772011-10-08T16:38:00.002-05:002011-10-08T16:39:49.468-05:00Owwwww! Oct 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Is this not the cutest little</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>destruction derby you've ever seen!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He got me.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He got me good.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sporting cold pack, ibuprofen, and antihistamines</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and it's STILL throbbing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-23503535354862937382011-09-24T16:29:00.000-05:002011-09-24T16:29:49.743-05:00Itchy Feet! Sept 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Time for new adventures.</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nearly eight years here at Lake Chapala,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and I'm itchin' for new experiences.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New people to meet, new trails to explore,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">new things to make me go hmmmmm. . .</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wanted!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mexican Trailrunner seeks new trails.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Must be scenic, sunny,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and include indigenous peoples.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Must be in Mexico -</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I dunno, German Trailrunner,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Singapore Trailrunner,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">just doesn't have the right ring.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ideas?</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open to any and all ideas. . .</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Will there be sand between my toes,</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">mountain climbing boots, huaraches,</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">or a new pair of flip-flops</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">in my future?</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>- Mexican Trailrunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05987460497945211699noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8777171318205023886.post-29578243168398675472011-09-14T18:05:00.000-05:002011-09-14T18:05:47.653-05:00Indie Publishing - Update 4 - DONE DEAL! 2 BOOKS PUBLISHED ON KINDLE! Sept 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">WOOPEE!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two books up, two more to go</span>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A wonderful cover artist crossed my path</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and I commissioned him to do covers for 3 books.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here they are:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ajsFlAR_uMI/TnEqzXyyT1I/AAAAAAAAD8g/IGhaLb_T2vQ/s1600/emergency-340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ajsFlAR_uMI/TnEqzXyyT1I/AAAAAAAAD8g/IGhaLb_T2vQ/s320/emergency-340.jpg" width="222" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Emergency-Medical-Spanish-Travelers-ebook/dp/B004Y5FSGS/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316040345&sr=1-1"><b>Emergency Medical Spanish for Travelers</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And</span>:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M87dpMSgNNE/TnEqvR-BXYI/AAAAAAAAD8c/0zUgiCXfsks/s1600/things-340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-M87dpMSgNNE/TnEqvR-BXYI/AAAAAAAAD8c/0zUgiCXfsks/s320/things-340.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Things-That-Hmmmm-Hmmmmm-ebook/dp/B005IDV52G/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316040440&sr=1-1"><b style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Things That Make You Go Hmmmm... </b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Didn't he do a good job?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">His name is Bronson Dunbar</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and here are his contacts:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1719424020"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronson Dunbar</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bronsondunbar.com/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Custom Eye-Catching Professional Graphics</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bronson was easy to work with,</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">fairly priced, and so creative and</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">willing to work with me throughout</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the entire process that I kept waiting</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for the other shoe to drop.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Know what I mean?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It never did.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not only that, his dad is a formatter</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and can help Indy/Self Pubbers</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">with their formatting for Kindle</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and Smashwords.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is his link:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1719424036"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Colin Dunbar</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://colindunbar.com/bds-sbi.html">Book Design Services</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, for one week, from today Sept 14, 2011 to</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">next Wed Sept 21, 2100, both of my books are on sale</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for the amazing price of. . .drum roll. . .</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. . .ba dump bump. . . </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">$.99!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the 21st, they will revert back</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">to their normal price of $2.99US</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Both of these books are eBooks</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and available for download on Amazon.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Click on links below the books for particulars</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and to buy. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Buy now, pay less!</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">COMING UP!!!</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">My next book, in the final stages of rewrite,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">is a memoir of my parents love story,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">their move to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1936,</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and their early life in Hawaii documented by</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">my mother's letters home to her family</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">from 1937 thru 1945.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is the cover:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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