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They Thought They Could Do it and They Did!What’s Behind the Blue Door?

BY REN DRAKE HILL

In my travels I have never experienced a community so involved in helping one another old/young, native/foreigner, human/animal…as Rosarito, and the communities at its borders.

One such group is Mujeres Para Mujeres (Women for Women), established March 16, 2018. About 50 ladies attended the inaugural gathering and continue to meet on the 8th of

every even-numbered month with “Potlucks for a Purpose.” The times and days of the week vary in order to allow everyone to attend, allowing for those who may have monthly meet-ings at scheduling conflicts.

I met with Board members Carol Council, Mary Contreras, Valerie Russell, and Barbara Acosta for an update of how the organization was progressing. These four met about a year

ago in an effort to find ways that women could share their talents and skills and empower other women. The goal was to be of service and support “with” people, not “at” people; creating and extending relationships for a better community. “More can be helped if more become involved.”

They explained that Women for Women is a multicultur-al organization dedicated to “meeting the needs of girls and women in Baja,” with the target populations of teenagers, single mothers, victims of domestic violence, and those just striving to improve their lives. They seek “to empower women to use their voices, acquire new skills, maximize their education, sup-port other women, learn trades, and start businesses.”

On October 16, 2019 the Casa de Mujeres opened its

And the Holidays Continue!

BY REN DRAKE HILL

The holidays, or “Holy Days,” continue in December with the celebration of The Immaculate Conception on December 8 and the com-memoration of the appearance of the Virgin de Guadalupe on December 12, the most impor-tant date on the Mexican fiesta calendar, Or according to the book, “Fiesta Time in Latin America.”

Northern Baja does not make a huge production of these two Feast Days. To really celebrate, consider San Juan de los Lagos, where several “streets” are fashioned start-

ing in late November, offering sweets, dishes, talavera, exotic animal skins, and other luxury imports. It’s worth visiting San Juan de los Lagos during this holiday if for no other reason than to purchase unusual Christmas gifts.

Most every Catholic-popu-lated city celebrates the Day of the Virgin de Guadalupe. The most important of Mexico’s pilgrim shrines to the Virgin is in Mexico City, where the original site is celebrated. According to tradition, on December 9, 1531 Juan Diego,

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Rosarito Mayor Supports Desal Plant. Araceli Brown, our brand new Rosarito May-or, has stated that she sup-ports the controversial desalt plant project for Rosarito as long as it does not gets the state in more debt and doesn’t create any ecological issues.

She referred to the de-

salination plant in Carson, California as an example of one that is working correctly without affecting the envi-ronment.

“The model that we are proposing is not the same one as the one the last gov-ernment was proposing; we are planning to use the same

model as the one that is already working in Carson, California,” said Brown.

She also said that several of the water problems Rosari-to is having were caused as a result of the previous gov-ernment failing to maintain the infrastructure properly, which caused some pumps to fail.

Governor Jaime Bonilla previously stated that the water problem the state is now experiencing is a result of the previous administra-tion’s efforts to make the new government look bad.

New Marine Fuel Termi-nal in Ensenada Approved. Captain Ricardo Thompson, manager of the project, re-ported he has the approval from the Energy Regula-tory Commission (CREA), General Customs Admin-istration and the National Agency of Industrial Safety

and Environmental Protec-tion Hydrocarbons Section of the SEMARNAT to begin construction of a marine fuel terminal in March 2020, that could be ready to begin operations in the first months of 2021. The marine fuel terminal will operate in El Sauzal and will bring much-needed gasoline, fuel oil, and diesel to Baja California at a better price and with lower environmental impact.

The fuel will be brought from California from a short distance of 139 miles, as op-posed to fuel from Texas, as is currently done.

It is estimated that the terminal will decrease trans-portation costs because the fuel would be moved over shorter distances, making it cheaper than Pemex.

New hospital for Ensena-da. The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) announced that they will be developing a new hospital in the Chapultepec area of Ensenada.

With an initial invest-ment of 125 million USD, the new 260-bed hospital will be focused on offering to its affiliates doctors who are specialists in their fields, providing much-needed re-sources in this area.

Construction on the proj-ect is said to begin in the first months of 2020 and will be finished two years later.

The IMSS is the hospital system that attends to non-government workers and their families, but is said to have an oversaturation of as much as 300% with the cur-rent facilities in Ensenada.

Ensenada loses land. Once again Ensenada has lost the battle against Rosarito for 168 square kilometers of land around the La Mision area, which Rosarito has long claimed is theirs.

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Every First Saturday. 10 am. United Society of Baja Cali-fornia (USBC) general meet-ing at the Titanic Room of the Calafia Hotel. Good info for the English speaking community of charitable, community service and social organizations. www.unitedsocietyofbaja.org. 664-748-3949.

Every First Saturday. Noon-sundown. Open Studio Art Walk, a free tour of galleries in Rosarito Beach Hotel com-mercial center. Meet artists at work in their studios. pacothe-painter@hotmail.com

Every Third Saturday. 1pm. USBC, United Society of Baja California, monthly potluck dinner, at La Maroma sports bar, across from Burger King. Different theme every month. Usually live entertainment. Free. Membership $20 per year.

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November 29 & 30, Friday & Saturday, 10 am - 8 pm; Ro-sarito Crystal and Gem Show at Hotel Calafia (km 35.5). Gems, minerals & fossils; show, buy and sell. Admission: $3. 664-444-9527.

November 30, Saturday, 9 am – 1 pm; Lecture and Practice about Taoist Arts by Zi Xiao. Chinese traditional culture & history; bioenergetics healing arts; Taoist meditation. Venustiano Carranza, Primo Tapia, Mision Viejo. 646-189-7470; qigong_w.bc@hotmail.com.

November 30, Saturday, 12:30 – 3:30 pm; Harvest Jam-boree and Holiday Food Drive at Vista Hermosa Resort (k43). All musicians welcome to join the jam to fight hunger. Acous-tic, blues, country, bluegrass, and Americana. Non-perish-able food items and donations. Proceeds to support Hearts of Baja. www.BAHsociety.com.

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December 1, Sunday, 1 – 4 pm; Tempest Trading Holi-day Concert and Art Bazaar (k 40.5). Music by Rosarito’s Academia de Musica Allegro. Local artists, crafts people and confectioners. 661-688-1161.

December 4, Wednesday, 1 pm; Flying Samaritans White Elephant Gift Swap & Luncheon at Las Rocas Resort. Minimum value: $10. Donation $20. RSVP Susan: susansmithz@hotmail.com or 858-240-2360 or 662-200-6066

December 6, Friday, 5 – 8 pm; A Very Merry Diva’s Christmas Party, holiday food drive and fundraiser to benefit Blues Against Hunger Society at Pavilion Restaurant, featuring Brigette Rios Purdy. $18 show with holiday menu available. Tickets at Pavilion Restaurant or online at www.BAHSociety.com.

December 6 & 7, Friday 7 pm, & Saturday 4 pm; The Kumiai Theatre Company pres-ents El Jugete del Ano (Toy of the Year), at CEART Rosarito. Free. 661-100-6338. Facebook/ CEART Rosarito.

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Rene’s Casino Shut Down Over Lack Of Permits

On October 7, the Directorate of Inspection, Verification, and Ordination of Public Roads implemented an operation in the four casinos in Rosarito to verify whether they had municipal permits to operate.

During the operation in Rene’s Casino, those in charge assured they had the documentation in order, but they never presented it, so the city inspectors proceeded to close it.

Later, federal inspectors from the Department of Justice (PGR), through the Federal Public Ministry, proceeded to place seals on the doors corresponding to the closure because they didn’t even have the operating permits granted by the Federal Government through the “Secretaría de Governacion,” or Office for Domestic Affairs.

More than a month after the closure, the owners have not shown the required documentation, so the establishment has remained closed.

City Hall Secretary, Manuel González Araujo, explained that if a business of this type does not have the proper permit issued by the Federal Government through the Office for Domestic Affairs, it cannot access other municipal permits, including the sale of alcoholic beverages. He also mentioned that during the operation, this turned out to be the only casino without the corresponding federal permits.

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Mindy is a teacher in New York. In 1999 Mindy opened a Swiss bank account. It didn’t have her name; it just had an account number. Around the time of this story, the account had a balance of just under $2 million.

Mindy’s difficulties? She never reported the account as required. When Swiss banks began furnishing information to the US Treasury, she did not

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take advantage of a program designed to provide reduced penalties in exchange for fu-ture compliance. Instead she opted to quietly file amended returns and late foreign bank account reports (FBARs), hoping no one would notice. Someone did.

The IRS assessed a “will-ful” FBAR penalty of 50% of the highest account bal-ance for one of the years. In Mindy’s case, the fine came to $803,530.00. That’s some chunk of change.

She went to court and got taken to the cleaners. Why? Just about everything she said “strained credulity” –judicial speak for “we don’t believe a word,” She could not re-member if she opened the account, where the money came from, the banker’s sig-nature, her efforts to prevent investments in US securities, a cash withdrawal, and on

and on. The story is amazing. How a teacher manages to pile up that much cash is also un-explained and unaddressed. One can only wonder.

There is no mindreading machine out there, so the best measure of willfulness is to look for tangible actions or omissions that suggest you knew and chose not to comply. Things that look like efforts to conceal always look bad. Shifty explanations make you look even worse. When she got audited she initially denied that there was an ac-count at all. Then there was an account but it wasn’t her money. As more evidence came to light, however, she slowly amended and erod-ed her statements until she reached her final testimony: that she knew that the account and money was hers, and that she had met with bank representatives to manage it, and that she had withdrawn money. Bad.

You can end up in this pickle quite by accident. In-herit a foreign bank account and not report it… that would be bad. A minor inconve-nience (the original bank report) now risks becoming a “willful” FBAR penalty of 50% of the highest *yearly* balance on the account. Each year is a separate violation-- nothing prevents the IRS from assess-ing a penalty for each annual willful violation. It can add up real quick.

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Many of us Mexicans have had close encounters with foreigners and English speakers, and not only is there a language barrier, but also a cultural one. Spanish is a romantic language and English is a Germanic language, so the general gist and sense of the language can be a lot more different than what it seems on paper. Also, some foreigners are taught Spanish in high school and university, but often times it’s a castellan Spanish- from Spain. Which is also, not how we speak in Mexico.

Daniela Velazquez, 22, waitress.

I once had an American boss, who had a very bad tem-per. Sometimes, he was nice and would joke around with us, the whole crew was Mexi-can. He knew some Spanish words like ándale, hurry up; callate, shut up and such. On a good day, he would buy us tequila shots to make us work happier and on bad days he would scream his head off and get pissed if we talked in Span-ish among us. We never meant to disrespect him, but honestly, communication was faster in our language. I thought it was the cure when he tried to speak

in Spanish sometimes, when he was in a good mood but hated him trying to speak Spanish when he was angry: it seemed as if he wanted to offend us in our language. To this day, he has very unstable staff.

Jaime Higuera, 35, driver. I always meet tourists who

try their Spanish out. On spring break, I usually meet young women who practice their high school Spanish and it’s hilarious because they are taught a very formal Span-ish. Last year, a girl tried her very best to “grab” a taxi, she thought the right word was co-ger, and that means something else here. (It translates more to a four-letter word that rhymes with firetruck) she was a little tipsy, which made it funnier but I felt bad after a while and told her the right w a y and pointed her

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league of mine, w h o drove her to her hotel. He told me that she practiced rolling her r’s all the way to the resort and it was driving him a little crazy! I overall am happy to meet people who try to speak Spanish, except for cursing, because even when I know they have no idea, they can be a little offensive.

Maria Montes, 41, cashier. I really don’t mind when a

foreigner tries to speak Span-ish, what gets me is when they try to be funny. It’s like they are almost disrespecting someone with the wrong words, I know they don’t fully get it, but that’s my point, if you don’t know, don’t do it. One time this tour-ist tried to tell me a pickup line in Spanish to get a discount, he just didn’t get it. And not only that, he became increasingly annoying every time he tried. I was so mad at the end of it, his friends tipped me more than they should have, and even that did not make things better.

Domingo Aguilar, 65, re-tired.

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waitresses were mean and told us we had to pay our beers in full as we ordered them, but the bartender was nice. He would try his best to speak to us, who had very bad English and make us feel welcome at the place. Eventually, we all would crowd at the bar to avoid the waitresses and ended up teaching him more Spanish, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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an Indian convert, heard music and someone calling his name while on Tepeyac Hill.

The location had once been the site of a shrine built to Az-tec Goddess Tonantzin, which had been destroyed when Catholicism was introduced there.

The townspeople did not believe Juan Diego’s story of the Virgin’s appearance and demanded a token as proof. The Virgin came to Juan again and told him to pick the roses

blue door on Paseo de los He-roes in Santa Anita, south of La Mision. The Casa is open Mondays and Fridays from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.

Several 6-week classes are currently being offered, with more under consideration. Every encounter is valuable. A six-week Self Esteem class led by Joanna Wood started with 13 signups and only three show-ups. Of these three only one lady finished, but this sin-gular student declared, “This class saved my life.” By using the tools she had learned, “I feel happier, healthier, and more peaceful now than ever.”

Most classes suggest a 20 peso donation, but the fee is waived for those who cannot afford the payment. English

class with Rita Gullickson is at 10:30 on Mondays, with ladies learning English through sim-ple conversation. The Women’s Creativity Circle meets Fridays at 9:30 for Movement with Lau-ra Mandala an Arts (painting, drawing, collage, writing…) at 10:30 with Sue McDevitt. Classes are mostly in Spanish.

A Sewing Program connect-ed to Casa del Sol Naciente and run by Rosa Martinez is offered to those actually seeking a ca-reer in sewing and fashion; it’s

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a 2-year, 6-days a week intense sewing program. Information and scholarships are available through MPM or email rosa-martinez77@gmail.com.

MPM’s Home Health Care program, led by Mary Sim-mons, is partnered with Ro-sarito Beach Christian Church. This 8-week course provides skills for the home health care workers who aid those who pre-fer to stay home during illness.. Tuition is $100. Anyone wish-ing to provide a scholarship should contact Mary Simmons.

Mujeres Para Mujeres is starting a microfinance pro-gram, with the committee chaired by Karen Cebreros. They are currently research-ing ways in which to provide microloans to women for en-trepreneurial and educational ventures. MPM has partnered with VIA International, which has positive experience in mi-

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March 8th will be the 1st anniversary of MPM and elec-tions for next year’s Board will be held. The group is always seeking new energetic mem-bers, Mexican and expat, espe-cially from the northern area of Rosarito. I know many of us have been giving generously of our time and funds, especially after the spate of fires Rosarito has experienced, but please consider sharing your talents with this fine group of ladies. Do you have any ideas for a class or a workshop that would benefit local ladies? They are currently seeking a Member-ship Coordinator, Volunteer Coordinator, Development Director, and Grant Writer… and a dozen folding chairs.

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growing on the rocks where he had first encountered her. Juan wrapped the roses in his cape and carried them to the town’s bishop. Upon unfolding his cape the image of the Virgin de Guadalupe appeared, sur-rounded by the roses.

This occasion is still cel-ebrated today. For over 400 years in the shrine on this rocky hill, the original cape still bears the vibrant painting of the still beautiful Virgin de Guadalupe, without any re-storative techniques. Miracles are still granted to many be-lievers from around the world who make offerings to the Vir-gin de Guadalupe on this day.

In Popotla and Rosarito parades honor the Virgin, ac-companied by townspeople, drummers and dancers. Cel-ebration begins on midnight on December 11. There is a call for world peace and a mass at noon. After this earnest day of solemnity and reflection, people go about their lives in preparation of Holy Night and Christmas.,

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as he would teach us English. He only had a hard time when talking to elders, as we have a “you” for respect, “usted.” He would use it wrong all the time, and call younger people usted and then miss it when talking to elders, but we all knew he was trying.

Cristina Sanchez, 32, sec-retary.

Gringos are funny when they speak Spanish, whether

be final.In Mexico, a city's biggest

source of revenue is property taxes, and the land in dispute could be a big source of rev-enue for either city.

Sempra to expand in Baja. A $2.3 billion USD investment was announced by IEnova, a subsidiary of Sempra Energy, for its differ-ent projects in Baja California over a period of 5 years.

Tania Ortiz, head of IEno-va, stated during the inaugu-ral speech for the Rumorosa photovoltaic park, that one of their biggest investments will be on their current plant in La Jobita (near Bajamar),

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they try it or not. It's just that they are so much different from us, they are a little colder I guess, and some of them try talking Spanish with a little spice in their accent. I guess we sound the same when we have broken English, and sometimes we take offense when they don’t understand us. I remember a little girl a couple of summers ago who wanted to buy something at the beach, she knew how to say please, thank you and goodbye in Spanish. She was just the cutest, and her parents were fluent in Spanish, so I felt proud that the whole family was trying.

Marisol Fernandez, 19, guide.

I love it when foreigners try to speak Spanish. I think it’s a sign of respect, we Mexicans are expected to speak English when we travel north, and they make the effort to be the same. I met a man from the UK who was fluent in Spanish and French and sometimes mixed them up a little, but it was totally understandable. He told me they were some of the hardest languages he had learned, but once you learn a

where they will install infra-structure to be able to liquify natural gas.

She also stated that they could double the production of 41 megawatts in the Ru-morosa solar project if they can get more contracts from the federal commission of electricity (CFE).

Former governor gets indicted. Baja’s former gover-nor, Kiko Vega, got indicted by the current state govern-ment. He stands accused of misappropriating more than 65 million dollars through payments to about 40 non-existent companies.

Several of its closest col-laborators were also indicted,

although at press time there was no information on exact-ly what the specific charges were. ,

romantic language, they are all a little easier. ,

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