crime, fear, and action
Note: see update May 2012
Crime in Mexico is nothing new. There’s the evil border crime in places like Juarez where narco turf wars leave corpses piled up on street corners.
Sadly, our own U.S. government [DEA/Justice Dept/ATF] has been providing guns and laundering cartel money in an effort to find out more about and pursue the cartel leadership, with unfortunate consequences, and certainly loss of credibility and respect.
It has become clear that cartel-induced crime also occurs beyond the borderland, in interior [...]
fire!
Yesterday, we had an unusual windstorm (but no rain) during the night that has kept up all day today, and the usually warm temps have dropped 10-15 degrees to no more than 60′s in the daytime, 40′s at night. Feels like Maine Fall! (early Fall). The windstorm had pulled down several dead palm tree branches, about 12 feet long, dry as toast, and much heavier than I expected. Now I see why my gardener was averse to sawing the dead [...]