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A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

What To Do If You Lose Your Wallet While Traveling by paradise

New post on This Way To Paradise-Beaches, Islands, And Travel




What To Do If You Lose Your Wallet While Traveling

by paradise
Whether you are traveling locally or abroad, getting away from the usual places and routine is always a thrill. Ideally, you have all your travel documents in order if you are traveling abroad, and you have taken care of the finances. However, things don't always go according to plan when you are traveling. One of the worst things that can happen is that you lose your wallet. It can create a real crisis if your credit or debit cards were in there as well as travel documents like your passport or visa.
Whether you misplaced your wallet somewhere or you got mugged, there are precautionary steps that you need to take immediately. One is to cancel your credit or debit cards. Submitting a report before an ATM card is used means that you have no liability whatsoever. With credit cards, the same rule applies but your liability is limited to a certain amount if you do not submit a report.
If you are abroad, you'll need to report to the Embassy or Consulate of your country. They will verify your identity and help you with the process of replacing your passport and visa so that you can go back home.
You should also take the precaution of initiating a fraud alert from one of the credit reporting bureaus. This way, should someone try to take a loan in your name or initiate another large transaction, you will first be called to confirm the transaction.

What about emergency funds?

If you are in your country, you can dial a customer care line, report the loss to your financial institution and they can rush new cards to you after the cancel the missing ones, perhaps by courier. If you are abroad, you can make an emergency collect call to your credit or debit card company.
Financial institutions will handle situations differently most if not all will want to do all that they can to help their clients in a situation where they have no funds at all. One quick solution is for finances to be remitted to you online. If you are in a situation where you have no money at all even for your next meal or take a cab, you can ask that finances are remitted to you online.
The financial company will check the status of your credit or debit card and they will usually be perfectly willing to send money to you online. You can access your funds as soon as they are remitted online and you can go on with your trip. If not your financial institution, then you can always call on a friend or family member and ask them to send money to your online account as you wait for replacement cards.
Apart from being fast and convenient, international money transfer services can be used in most countries in the world. Neither do you have to worry about cost. The transaction is done electronically so it is very cheap. You don't have to worry about expensive fees, especially in another currency.

Err on the side of caution

You may not see the need to have an online account. Even though, open one just as a precaution. You can even put some funds in it so that if you lose the cards in your wallet, all you will to access your emergency funds is a computer or internet-enabled cell phone. To this end, Azimo is one of the fastest, safest and cheapest international money transfer services available.
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A peso for a taco was too much Juana Reyes and fellow citizens took up arms two years ago in Tepalcatepec

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A peso for a taco was too much

Juana Reyes and fellow citizens took up arms two years ago in Tepalcatepec

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It was a one-peso surcharge on the price of a taco that drove Juana Reyes to take up arms nearly two years ago in the town of Tepalcatepec.
After 12 years of oppression by the criminal gang Caballeros Templarios, Reyes had had enough.
She had decided to open a taquería in January 2013 when a man paid her a visit: the Caballeros would take one peso for each taco she sold.
“I felt a boundless rage,” recalled Reyes in an interview with Milenio.
At a subsequent meeting of taco vendors, she asked gang representatives how they would know how many tacos she had sold. The charge would be based on the amount of meat they purchased from the butchers, whose sales would be monitored, they explained.
In the end, Reyes paid not a single peso.
On February 24 of that year, with a megaphone in hand, she stood in the town’s central square and called on the citizens to take up arms and defend themselves. A civil defense movement was born and Reyes became it spokesperson and earned the name, La Comandanta.
By all accounts the first year was not an easy one. “It was a year of terror because every day we went out we were scared we wouldn’t return.”
For a dozen years the municipality of 15,000 in the Tierra Caliente region of Michoacán had suffered under the yoke of the drug gang that operated with impunity, dealing in extortion and violence and death.
They charged levies and kidnapped, and stole vehicles, plots of land and houses. But now they’re gone, said Reyes, and economic growth has come instead: Tepalcatepec is in peace.
The same cannot be said for other communities in Tierra Caliente, such as La Ruana where two rival community police leaders had a shoot-out December 16 that left 11 dead. Reyes said the difference in her community is that they made their agreements with the federally-appointed security commissioner, Alfredo Castillo, and lived by them.
They put down their arms as civil defense militia and joined the officially-sanctioned Fuerza Rural. But in other towns there were those who did not want a pact with the government and had their own interests to serve.
Sooner or later, says Reyes, that will change and all of Tierra Caliente will be at peace.
Today, Juana Reyes is no longer the militia leader nor is she a member of the new community police force. And the taco stand never did get off the ground.
An agricultural engineer by training, she has embarked upon a project that was a dream for several years, but only a dream as long as the Caballeros Templarios were around.
By March her artisanal cheese-making cooperative, Tepemich, will employ its 12 members along with five other local residents.
And not a single peso will go to the Caballeros Templarios.
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