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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

Saturday, December 5, 2020

Mexico News Today Friday, December 4, 2020

 

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020

In CDMX, hospital workers feel the pressure 

The coronavirus situation continues to worsen as hospitals are filling up and crowds of residents throng the streets. FULL STORY

Private-sector doctors worried over influenza vaccine 

Unable to obtain enough flu vaccines, the doctors are expressing concerns that the situation risks increasing the illness's spread in the coming months. FULL STORY

Despite a travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen home 

In the winter season, the Programa Paisano plans to welcome 500,000 Mexican nationals for the holidays. FULL STORY

Coronavirus has shuttered a million small businesses

Over 1 million small and medium-sized businesses closed forever. FULL STORY

Querétaro begins rapid testing for Covid-19

Querétaro has followed Mexico City's lead to speed up the identification and isolation of cases. FULL STORY

The challenges Mexico’s search commissioner faces

Karla Quintana's gargantuan and unenviable task is leading the search for over 79,000 people, most of whom have disappeared since 2006. FULL STORY

1 person dead, 56 homes destroyed in BCS fires 

Four Baja California border communities were hit by fires this week fueled by Santa Ana winds. FULL STORY
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Cold front delivers first snow of the season in Chihuahua

Five municipalities — Buenaventura, Bachiniva, Guerrero, Batopilas, and Galeana — were blanketed in white Friday morning. FULL STORY

Best Buy closes its stores, drawing huge crowds

The chain's liquidation sale generated such fervor that the company had to close all its stores early. FULL STORY

Gang violence escalates in Michoacán: clash between rival cartels leaves 6 dead

Firefights between the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and rival criminal group Cárteles Unidos raged in four municipalities this week. FULL STORY

Business-friendly bureaucrat resigns as AMLO’s chief of staff

President López Obrador announced that his chief of staff was stepping down but would keep on being his 'main link' to the private sector. FULL STORY

Petroleum pipeline thefts continue to plague Pemex 

The company saw 1,103 illegal taps in September and 1,077 in October, according to the government's online transparency platform. FULL STORY

Government turns off natural gas to ethylene plant with ties to Odebrecht

The federal government has been critical of a contract that obliges Pemex to sell ethane to the plant at a price it claims is unfair. FULL STORY

Mercado Libre aims to speed delivery with new aircraft

The Amazon rival has unveiled a fleet of four cargo planes to up the delivery speed of products across Mexico. FULL STORY

Analysts say new public-private infrastructure plan falls woefully short

The plan to build 68 infrastructure projects at almost 526bn pesos will have a limited impact on the economy, experts say. FULL STORY

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Where to exercise when the pandemic has closed gyms? A skatepark!

Skateboarding, as Luis Medina discovered in his 40s, offers not only germ-free exercise but also friendship, writes John Pint. FULL STORY

• Authorities shut down party of 500 in Acapulco street

• Talks fail to reach accord on controversial outsourcing legislation

• Senior official in Sinaloa prosecutor’s office shot and killed

Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays Published on Thursday, December 3, 2020

 The Programa Paisano launch in Tijuana on Wednesday. The Programa Paisano launch in Tijuana on Wednesday.

Despite travel ban, Mexico prepares to welcome half a million countrymen

No effort will be made to prevent Mexican nationals crossing from the US for the holidays

Despite a Covid-19 travel ban across the Mexico-United States land border, Mexico’s Programa Paisano got up and running yesterday for the winter season, preparing to welcome home an expected 500,000 Mexican nationals for holiday visits.

The year-round program’s mission is to facilitate the transit of Mexican nationals living in the U.S. and Canada while they visit their home country. The program has special campaigns during the summer and winter, the busiest times of the year for Mexicans living abroad to come back to visit. In 2019, it served 4 million people. This year, it has so far served 600,000, a decrease which officials attribute to the pandemic.

Many of those visitors, living permanently in the United States and Canada, are expected to cross the land border into Mexico which, by agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, is supposed to be closed in both directions to all but essential travel until at least December 21 in order to slow the spread of Covid-19.

But officials with the National Immigration Institute (INM) say it would be impossible to stop Mexicans coming home to see family during the holidays.

“You can’t prohibit a Mexican from exercising his right to return to his home country,” said commissioner Francisco Garduño, adding that the institute will be taking all necessary health safety measures at the border.

Last month, Mexico surpassed 1 million Covid-19 cases. Virtually every state in the country is at least at yellow status on the national coronavirus stoplight map.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently called for “prudence” and encouraged Mexicans to avoid border crossings between Mexico and the U.S. for reasons of recreation, tourism, or “the celebrations that traditionally take place in these months,” but the tone seemed far from authoritative.

“We know that despite the recommendation, they are going to cross the border, so we have to be ready to attend to the needs of migrants who may come to visit their families,” said Luis Gutiérrez, head of the Institute for Mexicans Abroad, a federal agency.

While crossing into the U.S. is generally agreed to be vigilantly monitored to make sure travelers have a valid reason to enter, many report that the situation is not the same going in the opposite direction. In recent months, citizens and lawmakers alike in border states have called upon Mexico to enforce the travel ban supposedly in place. That the Programa Paisano will carry on more or less as usual seems indicative that the situation is not likely to change.

Certainly, at INM’s official launch of the program’s winter campaign this week in Tijuana, attitudes seemed welcoming and even encouraging of Mexicans coming home for the holidays: officials played an upbeat video featuring President López Obrador, who highlighted the contributions of Mexican migrants during times of uncertainty, implicitly referring to billions of dollars in remittances that Mexicans send home each year.

“We are going to protect you and care for you because you are Mexicans, because you are coming to your country, because you help us; and in these times, more than ever, you are supporting us. You deserve the best of treatment, to be received like heroes — our migrant countrymen,” said López Obrador in the video.

As of October 31, Mexicans working abroad, mainly in the U.S., had sent home nearly US $30 billion.

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune (sp)