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US bars personnel from using QR ferries Explosion on one ferry and devices found on another trigger alert by embassy Mexico News Daily | Friday, March 2, 2018
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US bars personnel from using QR ferries
Explosion on one ferry and devices found on another trigger alert by embassy
An explosion aboard one ferry and at least one explosive device discovered on another triggered a security alert last night by the United States embassy, prohibiting government employees from using ferries operating between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo.
The explosion took place February 21 on a passenger ferry in Playa del Carmen and injured 26 people, including U.S. citizens. The embassy alert said the blast was caused by an explosive device.
At least one other device was found yesterday on another ferry. Both vessels are owned by Barcos Caribe, whose regular service between Cozumel and Playa del Carmen was suspended by federal authoritiesafter the explosion.
The alert prohibits U.S. government employees from using all tourist ferries on the route until further notice and said that Mexican and U.S. law enforcement continue to investigate. It also warns travelers to be aware of their surroundings and exercise caution.
The newspaper Reforma reported yesterday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is assisting Mexican authorities in its investigations.
After the February 21 explosion, the Quintana Roo state port authority said that preliminary indications suggested a mechanical failure may have been to blame. However, some media reported that a drug cartel had taken credit for the blast.
The vessel was left with a gaping hole in its starboard side next to a passenger seating area.
Barcos Caribe is owned by the father of former Quintana Roo governor Roberto Borge, who is currently in custody awaiting trial on corruption charges. Roberto Borge Martín was on board the ferry when the February 21 explosion occurred but was uninjured.
Yesterday’s discovery was made on a ferry that was anchored off the port of Cozumel.
Media reports yesterday initially said that Navy personnel found and defused two explosive devices on the vessel Caribe 2.
However, an operations manager for Barcos Caribe subsequently told the newspaper El Universalthat only one device had been found, adding that the Navy Secretariat had not informed the company that it was explosive nor had it said that it had deactivated the device.
In a statement, the Quintana Roo government also referred to one “supposedly explosive device” and said that it was found in a vessel that had not been used to transport passengers for 10 months. The government stressed that it had not represented any danger to ferry passengers or tourists visiting the state.
It added that all three levels of government are cooperating “to strengthen the security measures on the docks.” The Army and Navy are also involved in the efforts, the statement said.
Today, the official word was not only that two devices were found yesterday, but they might have been planted by the ferry company itself.
State Attorney General Miguel Ángel Pech told news show host Carlos Loret de Mola this morning that two explosive mechanisms were found on the vessel, and the circumstances were “strange.”
That the vessel’s owner was involved is one of the lines of investigation being followed, he said.
The February 21 explosion is still being regarded as mechanical issue caused by poor maintenance, Pech said.
Oaxaca Post Card: Chocolate and Chapulines JANUARY 31, 2018 BY NAT KRIEGER
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Oaxaca Post Card: Chocolate and Chapulines
By Nat Krieger
Editor Note: SDFP Contributor Nat Krieger is traveling in Oaxaca and Chiapas Mexico. This is the first postcard from his journey.
While Mexico is world famous for its cuisine, many Mexicans look to the state of Oaxaca as having the best food in the republic. Oaxacans do it all, from tejate “the drink of the gods” to mole, and from toasted chapulines(grasshoppers) — a very BC (Before Conquest) dish — to amazing hot chocolate. All these specialties have Amerindian culinary and linguistic roots, but Oaxacans also have a way of adding cinnamon, among other ingredients, to make their chocolate drink second to none.
Oaxacan Chocolate Drink Photo credit Nat Krieger
Cinnamon came to the Americas from Asia, via Spain. In food, as in so much else, Oaxaca is Mexico on steroids: a place where the layering of Spanish and indigenous culture is on constant, colorful, and sometimes violent display. Indigenous peoples make up nearly half the state’s population — only neighboring Chiapas has a higher percentage — and the native peoples of Oaxaca have guarded their traditions through centuries of near or outright slavery.
Spain forced their religion on the people so they made Jesus look like a bearded Oaxacan farmer. The Spanish imposed their language yet words like chapuline and chocolate, and many others entered Spanish in a reverse culinary conquest. Oaxaca’s a place where even today indigenous Triqui women are on hunger strike in the city’s main square because their families have been expelled from their land by paramilitaries that have pitched their tents at the base of the enormous, neo-classical Governor’s Palace. This is reminiscent of pillaged Zapotec temples, which frequently became the base upon which the Spanish built their cathedrals.
Triqui women on strike, Oaxaca City Photo credit: Nat Krieger
Like food, clothing tells stories as well: Triqui women are noted for their bright red huipil garments, the red is a natural red dye achieved from squeezing cochineal bugs who live on cacti. Before the advent of synthetic dyes, cochineal was a major export of Spain — their enemies even made use of it, as seen in the red of British Army coats. In a linguistic reversal, although the bug is indigenous to the Americas the word cochineal is a Latin, not Amerindian appellation.
As for chapulines, they can be crunchy, salty or spicy but I can now report: they don’t taste like chicken. Many environmentalists suggest that westerners re-evaluate their revulsion towards consuming insects as many are nutritious and far easier on the environment than raising meat, or pesticide-drenched corn and vegetables.
What is ancient becomes new again.
Chapulines (grasshoppers) Oaxaca Market Photo credit Nat Krieger
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Zipolite on yksi Meksikon harvoja nudismin sallivia rantakohteita Turun Sanomat Zipolite. Maija Salmi. Nuori mies kävelee rantaviivaa kitara selässään ja ohittaa iäkkään, käsi kädessä kulkevan pariskunnan. Yhteistä heille on se, ettei kenellekään ole vaatteita päällä. Minulle Zipolite on tuttu jo vuosien ajalta, mutta en ole koskaan ollut rannalla täysin alasti. Vaikka olen tottunut ...
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Zipolite. Maija Salmi. Nuori mies kävelee rantaviivaa kitara selässään ja ohittaa iäkkään, käsi kädessä kulkevan pariskunnan. Yhteistä heille on se, ettei kenellekään ole vaatteita päällä. Minulle Zipolite on tuttu jo vuosien ajalta, mutta en ole koskaan ollut rannalla täysin alasti. Vaikka olen tottunut ...
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Etelä-Meksikossa Oaxacassa sijaitseva Zipoliten rantakohteeseen matkustetaan kauempaakin.
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