for today,,,

Civil Protection active tsunami alert
La Paz, Baja California Sur (BCS).  In the general population of Baja California Sur, is informed that following the earthquake that originated off the coast of Chile, with a magnitude of 8.3 on the Richter scale are advised to take all precautions necessary to avoid situations that could endanger their safety, it is recommended not navigate from now until after the alert.
Similarly avoid jump into the water or being on the edge of the coast, all this in order to not take unnecessary risks.
Here we present the bulletin No. 002 issued by the Tsunami Warning Center (CAT-SEMAR) 
DATE AND TIME: SEPTEMBER 16, 2015, 19:20 HRS. R (00:20
HRS. Z) aimed exclusively at civilian and military authorities. ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO THIS BULLETIN ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE RELEVANT AUTHORITIES. SEISMIC INFORMATION (confirmed by the PTWC): origin time of the earthquake: 16 September 2015, 17:54 hrs . R (Z 22:54 hrs.) from the epicenter REGION: NOR 169 km northwest of Valparaiso, Chile. LOCATION: 31,563 S, W 71 737 DEPTH: 10 km
http://octavodia.mx/articulo/61943/activa-proteccion-civil-alerta-por-tsunami

In the never-ending mobile phone wars among telecom giants, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim’s Telcel was forced by competitors to “eliminate” the Mexico-U.S. border and allow mobile users to call from Mexico to the U.S. and vice versa for just a small charge.


Telcel, Mexico’s dominant wireless telephone company, is a unit of Slim-controlled América Móvil. It said July 16 that under the plan “Telcel Sin Frontera” (Telcel Without Border), mobile users can call and text to the U.S. without paying long distance charges, and when they travel to the U.S. they will be able to use their minutes, messages and MBs just as they would in Mexico, with no roaming charges.


Telcel charges a monthly service fee of 50 Mexican pesos (around US$3) for the “Telcel Sin Frontera” plan which subscribers can activate in Mexico or the U.S.

Cyclosporiasis, a painful and uncomfortable parasitical stomach ailment, has affected more than 380 people in 26 states after a batch of Mexican cilantro was found to be contaminated with human waste, the Centers for Disease Control and FDA says.

According to the two federal agencies, the outbreak began on May 1 and is likely caused by "contact with the parasite shed from the intestinal tract of humans" in the fields where contaminated cilantro plants were grown in Mexico's Puebla state, al-Jazeera America reports.

The news comes after the FDA placed a partial ban on cilantro from the region in late July. Authorities investigated up to 11 farms and found toilet paper and feces in many of the fields. They also found that many of these farms lacked adequate toilet facilities, AJAM says.

According to AJAM, it's not the first time cilantro from Mexico's Puebla state has caused widespread illness. The herb has been linked to outbreaks of the stomach condition in 2012, 2013 and 2014 as well.

The story of a gold mine project in Baja California Sur took a strange twist yesterday when a La Paz municipal director tearfully explained she had been pressured into granting an approval for the controversial mine.


The director of urban and ecological development, challenged by mine opponents to explain why she had signed off on a land-use change to permit the Los Cardones mine to go ahead, said she had been harassed into doing so.

Members of the Citizens’ Front in Defense of Water and Life visited Socorro Icela Fiol Manríquez in her office yesterday morning after hearing the municipality was moving ahead with approvals for the mine.


She claimed that municipal general secretary Marco Antonio Núñez Rosas had pressured her into signing, but told mine protesters and reporters she intended to revoke that approval.

Today it was reported that both Núñez Rosas and Fiol Manríquez have since met with the Citizens’ Front, where the former said that no mines have been granted any authorizations for land-use change.

Within weeks the XIV City of La Paz, through the Department of Urban Development and Ecology, will grant the Change Land Use in favor of the mining company Los Cardones for it to start operations with gold mining in the village San Antonio, Baja California Sur.

According to information obtained, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) granted the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the mining company, document through which it is disclosed, based on studies, a significant environmental impact and potential to generate a work or activity and how to avoid or mitigate it in case it is negative.

Also, the Ministry of Economy granted the necessary permits to the company -The Cardones for the start of its work, but only remains for the City of La Paz XIV concrete Change of Land Use, which no longer depends on the vote the Cabildo.

The data collected show that the final decision to approve the mining project is in the Urban Development and Ecology, and an estimated 90 percent chance of obtaining the endorsement of the authority based on the law.

"They requested the Change Land Use since March, and that is to be resolved, and if you press me, it will be in favor of the mining company because we have no legal grounds to prevent the start of operations [...] If we deny Land use change, they put an injunction, they go to a jurisprudence and beat us, "said our source.

The Land Use Change mining company is to perform pull dam, the construction of a desalination plant, a pipeline to the sea for discarding the water used, the lifting power lines and access roads.

Apparently citizen demonstrations against this mining project, considered toxic, had no echo in the authorities, who claim that the process has been conducted right attached to respecting and taking positions in favor and against.

On 7/15/15 we drove on the new road from the SJD airport to Todos Santos. The road takes you to north of Cabo just before where hwy 19 turns north running parallel to the pacific. Must've shaved off 1/2 the time...hardly anyone on the road so I'm thinking it had just opened. Will time it on return. No tolls yet but toll booths set up. In two locations locals set up orange cones to block passage...they are protesting not being paid for their land is what I read later. We were able to drive through a narrow part of the cones but a lady was standing real close where you have to be careful not to drive over her toes .

n the report this morning, Conagua discloses the amounts of rain on Wednesday, with El Triunfo where more water fell, registering 139 millimeters. Followers: San Antoni or 44.8; Ciudad Constitucion, 28.6; La Palmilla, 19.3; The Cajoncito, 13.5; The Plum, 12; San Pedro, 8; La Paz, 5.3; La Ribera, 5.2; Todos Santos, 5.2; Plans, 4; Cabo San Lucas, 2.5; and El Quemado 1 mm.

The chances of rainfall persist today, with 60% chance of rain for the municipality of Loreto and Comondú; 50% for Los Cabos and La Paz (in the state capital formation of afternoon thunderstorms and scattered rain showers are expected); Santa Rosalia 40% and 20% for Black Warrior.

There’s a vaccine on the way for dengue fever after a signing ceremony in France yesterday, but there’s nothing on the horizon for another mosquito-borne virus that has spread quickly in Mexico.


This country is on track to be one of the first countries in the world to implement dengue vaccinations following the signing of an agreement between the Health Secretariat and drug maker Sanofi Pasteur.

Clinical trials of a drug designed to combat what has been described as the world’s fastest-growing tropical disease wrapped up last September, when it was announced that Mexico would probably be one of the first recipients.



A Sanofi Pasteur official said in June that the company was ready to distribute the drug, it having proved effective against the four types of dengue. Mexico was one of countries to participate in the trials, which began in 2004 and took 10 years to complete.

In Baja California Sur there are 15,000 illegal US, he announced the delegate of the National Migration Institute (INM) in the state, Alvaro de la Peña Angulo. The official called on foreigners to legalize their stay in the state through the Immigration Program Temporary Regulation. "What we know is that they are here and complying with the law. Right now we are calling all foreigners who entered the country before November 9, 2012 to come to the institute to make free process, "he said. He explained that, in some cases, foreigners enter legally, but because they are left to live and stay was determined by certain period, to leave the country does not change the status of such persons "illegal". Meanwhile, he said that there are about 27 Americans in California with legal status, which means, "to the Consulate General", the largest community that exists in the United States in Mexico, above Chapala, San Miguel de Allende or other tourist areas. De la Peña Angulo said that about 80 percent of the work is done INM in Los Cabos, where the largest number of foreigners are concentrated, although the area of ​​La Ventana and El Sargento, in La Paz, is where you have detected the Most illegal aliens working.

The State Department said Friday it has been forced to suspend the issuance of U.S. passports and visas at its overseas diplomatic missions due to a glitch that has hit one of its computer databases.

In a statement posted to its travel.state.gov website, the department said a hardware failure in its Consular Consolidated Database glitch has left overseas embassies and consulates unable to print visas, regular passports and other travel documents. This means that people who submitted online applications for passports and visas on or after June 9 will likely experience delays in processing, it said.

The failure does not affect domestic passport issuance because it only stopped the database from receiving biometric information sent from overseas posts, the department said.

"We cannot bypass the legal requirements necessary to screen visa applicants before we issue visas for travel," it said. "As a result, there is a backlog of visas waiting to be processed. We are working as quickly as possible to resolve the issue and to clear the backlog."

"Security measures prevent consular officers from printing a passport, report of birth abroad or visa until the case completes the required national security checks," it said.

More details about the failure were not immediately available.

The consular database was taken down last July by another technical glitch that had the same effect but the department said the current issue is unrelated. The department said it was working "urgently to identify the problem and correct it."

"We expect the systems to be fully operational again soon," it said, but offered no timeline.

TIJUANA.- A pilot program put in place by Mexico's National Immigration Institute (INM) at the Otay Mesa border crossing charging foreigners an entry tax caused quite a controversy amongst residents in the border region this week. Today, the INM has clarified some of the many questions that locals were asking, and have assured that the announced requirement has many exceptions.
Representatives of the National Chamber of Commerce and the Tijuana Conventions and Tourism Committee expressed their frustration at the new program, stating that this federal requirement will impact regional tourism and the entire tourism industry.
The INM indicated that those that enter Mexico for less than seven days will not have to pay the entry tax, and that the 306 pesos tax (approx. $24 U.S. dollars) will only apply to those that intend on staying between 8 days and six months. This tax is somewhat similar to the fee that Mexicans have to pay for I-94 visas (a visa required if you plan on staying in the U.S. for more than 30 days and/or travel beyond 25 miles from the border). The INM states that this measure is intended to gain a better understanding of who is entering the country and where they are going.
U.S. citizens of Mexican origin will be not have to pay this tax if they have some sort of document identifying them as Mexicans. For students living in Mexico, they will also not require the permit so long as they have a permit, visa, or legal resident.
The INM is testing the program out at the Otay border crossing, where signs have already been posted to route traffic to special lanes for U.S. vehicles and Mexican Vehicles.

facebook wrote:ROAD REPORT. HWY 1 is all clear from Loreto to Hotel Paraiso Colonet. There are a couple of vados with shallow water but they will be gone in another day.... except maybe for the one just south of San Ignacio at the Oasis Hotel. It was swift moving and up to the doors. Only semi's and busses were getting across. We paid $300ps and were ferried across on the back of a flatbed semi. Well worth the price. Were only delayed for about an hour.

bwo wrote:Consular Agent - The U.S. Consulate General Tijuana is seeking a U.S. citizen applicant for the position of Consular Agent in the Consular Agency in Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S. Please access to our website to view the full Vacancy Announcement (http://tijuana.usconsulate.gov/consularagent.html). If you are interested please submit ALL the requirements. Submit Application To: HROTijuana@state.gov. ☞ U.S. Consulate General Tijuana, HROTijuana@state.gov, http://tijuana.usconsulate.gov/consularagent.html, 977-2242, Cabo San Lucas

BPE wrote: U.S. Notary. Consulate has suspended document services indefinitely.