More Glimmers of Normalcy

Old fools are the hardest ones to convince and then, at times, to be re-convinced.    It is not my wish to plow over ground that cannot be broken.   It is hard on the plow.  It is even harder on the mules.
    So, that is why, when somebody asks me about "the situation" in Mexico and I respond and then the questioner contradicts me....my conversation is over.   The second party can say whatever he wishes, but the Gringo Viejo neither responds nor hears.   The usual case is that the less a person knows about Mexico....the less he has been throughout Mexico....the less he has experienced things in and about Mexico....the less he has studied matters concerning Mexico, and the more he relies upon authoritative news and information sources, then the more he knows that he knows more about Mexico and most other things than I.

     El Gringo Viejo will continue to post certain facts and interpretations for the benefit of OROGs.   Most OROGs are sharp people.   Most are as smart, if not smarter, than the Gringo Viejo.    It is up to the OROG to determine how he or she will stuff his or her pipe with the information provided here,  and whether he or she will light the pipe with a match or with a BIC.

      T0-day, after Mass, El Gringo Viejo and his long-suffering wife had an extremely pleasant conversation with another couple in the Parish Hall.   It turns out that that we had common interests in various things, as one might suspect.   The conversation turned to whether the Gringo Viejo thought that the news, generally being disseminated here on the frontier, about relative stability becoming the rule again, is true.   They were considering going down to Cd. Valles, in the eastern part of the  State of San Luis Potosi' to visit relatives.    Last year the same relatives said not to go....too problematic....etc.   Now they say those same relatives are declaring everything to be normalised.   They asked the Gringo Viejo's opinion.

      Standing there, four people, face-to-face, in real time, it was necessary to make a final judgement, about how to answer these reasonable folk.   It was necessary to say, that for all practical purposes, the family was correct.    The caveat was put in place that one should be reasonable and call or check ahead....study the situation at the moment....but that it is reasonable to assume that things are a mix of almost normal, normal, and better than the used to be even before the disorders.....better police, more military, better highways and bridges, better facilities....all the physical plant has continued to improve even during the Cartel mess.    There are still isolated incidents.   There is still the criminality (or a little less) that one might expect to find in a country with the  demographic of Mexico.   There are still the lunatic political manifestations that occur here and there at various points on the map.....like always.   But....it is....dare one say....beginning to look a lot like normal.

       One little barometer is the following.   Last year there were no hunting permits and gun license permits issued for American hunters looking to bag the famous Mexican mule deer that are found in the great barren, mountainous and desert-like extensions of Northcentral Mexico....overlapping the two northern States of Coahuila and Chihuahua.   The disorders had taken the number of hunters involved in the commercial business of the mule deer season down from around 3,500 American hunters in 2006 to a big fat zed (zero) in 2010.   This year, the Secretary of Agriculture/Department of Forestry and Wildlife issued 1,600 permits for the taking of one mule deer to foreign applicants.     An identical number of hunting rifle importation permits were issued by the Secretary of National Defense.   All such permits must be signed and authorised by a Mexican Army General, either active or retired and commissioned for such action by the Secretary.

      The relationships between the hunters and their Mexican and/or American guides and organisers are very private, very confidable, and very, very personal.   The American operators are people who have been through every up and down imaginable doing business in Mexico.   They are willingly mired in the mess and they love the fishing and hunting business and the people and the locale where they perform their services.  Their Mexican interfaces are the same....and the times the Mexicans provide.... the astounding geographic settings, the food, the liquor and beer, the camaraderie, the hunting and/or fishing experiences are legendary.

       Many Mexicans think that the involvement of the American hunters has resulted in the massive rebounding of the mule deer, brown bear, quail, migratory geese and duck, and types of dove populations.   Ducks Unlimited of Mexico has been very contributive.   The improvement in Mexican enforcement of basic husbandry and conservation rules and laws has had considerable impact as well.    The return of the Gringos to the field and lake marks another step in the slow return to normalcy....only this normalcy will be to a better level than what existed before.

Click onto the linkage below to see the world's record largemouth bass caught during a tournament at Lake Guerrero, not far from our place.    This was during the Summer just past, about when things started to begin to think about  returning to full normal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AmtWJpVYI&feature=autoplay&list=ULSrN4GSbUay0&lf=mfu_
in_order&playnext=1

      This video is very dull and boring, all in Spanish, but the OROG will see many, many fished being weighed in a over 6 kilos.    One fellow brought in three fish from one contestant that weighted 4o pounds.    The scenes of the two boys fishing from a boat are taken where our Rio Corona makes its entry into the Lake Vicente Guerrero, about 22 miles (by a straight line) away from the Quinta.

All very much fun and, we hope, the harbinger of things to come.
Thanks for your time and interest.   More later.
El Gringo Viejo
    

The Reason the Press Aspirates During Advent, Christmas,and Epiphany

The local press is composed of nice people who have that wondrous opportunity to be inside of a television rather than plasti-molded into a sofa or recliner looking at a television.   Those who are not inside the television are fortunate enough to put their names on human interest article of the season.    You know....those joyful stories about....

       "......due to the government cutbacks on medical and social services put forward by the Republican legislature this is not going to be the Merry Little Christmas that Mary Ann Wompleduffer was hoping to have for her seven children.    It's especially bad this Christmas because  her house burned down again three weeks ago, "ironically" just like last year.   She and her whole family are living in the back of an old abandoned pickup over on the edge of the stockyards and slaughterhouse, next to the sewer plant.

      "Ironically, Christmas falls on the 25th again with is always the same day as Mary Ann and all of her children were born....and they have a connection with Jesus, because, "ironically" he was born on the same day.  And they were really poor, too.     Many people think that it is "ironic" that Mary Ann's name is just like Jesus's mother's name and that there are so many parallels between their situations.

       "'Ironically' Mary Ann's plight was made worse because of the Republican sponsored cutbacks in basic social safety net programs that were provided originally by Barak Obama and the Democrat sponsored legislation that  was stopped before it could arrive to Mary Ann, who is so similar to Mary and so many Americans in this never ending recession.

    But like Mary Ann said, coughing through her black lung contracted during her days as a coal miner, that......

                                             Gimme, Mr. Rich Man

                                 "It really seems so little to ask,

                                   That those, who in their riches, bask,

                                   To give a bit, what they could spare,

                                   But the One Percent just doesn't care
                                                                                                       El Gringo Viejo - 2011
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Please pardon the Gringo Viejo as he reaches for another tissue.

Ironically yours,
El Gringo Viejo

Diana says that I have to declare the poem as a copyright, so therefore the new classic American poem "Gimme, Mr. Rich Man" authoured by the ever humble Gringo Viejo is private property and all benefits derived from the use of said property accrues to the said Gringo Viejo.

Research on the AK series of rifles imported for sale in the United States

This is an aside to the post we made previously, which is probably more informative and interesting.   El Gringo Viejo is putting this in so that people can understand all the complications concerning firearms and especially low-quality firearms such as those that are of recent manufacture in Red China and Romania  and other Eastern European countries.   The WASR-10 was popular at one time but no longer.   Coupled with the improper usage and poor maintenance practiced by the criminal and psuedo-revolutionary movements presently found operating in various theatres of the world, the entire suite of AK weaponry and AR knock-off from Red China make very poor armaments.    Good once, twice, maybe three times...then, watch out!    Please read the following posting by a gun expert and private collector, published not long ago on a gun enthusiast site.

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(excerpted by the Gringo Viejo from a knowledgeable web source)

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

DO NOT GET THE WASR..... Last Sunday afternoon my Romanian WASR 10 EXPLODED at 4 in the afternoon... Thats right blew up!!! I have owned several AK47 rifles in the last 25 years and this one is the worst gun that ever happened to me.... Luckily I had my safety glasses on and this hat I had on took the brunt of the receiver cover blasting me in the head.... I spent 3 hours picking schrapnel steel out of my face, arms and neck.... Every day for the last 4 days I have been picking steel particles out of my arm..... I took the rifle to a gunsmith and it is inconclusive what happened to the rifle. He suspects either the bolt wasnt completly shut when it fired or it was a hot powder charge in the cartridge..... This particular AK I bought about 5 months ago and put approximately 1100 rounds thru it. It was cleaned after every use so I am a little miffed as to what happened.... Fortunately the bolt didntschrapnel into my face, neck and left inside of my wrist where the magazine plugs in....... BUY A BETTER GRADE OF AK47 RIFLE. Forget the WASR.....

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If you or anyone that owns one of these WASR rifle wants to contact me for questions about safety recomendations 2 gunsmiths have made on how to prevent this from happening to you then feel free to contact me.....
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Thanks for your continued interest.

El Gringo Viejo

Without a Doubt

Issues about Mexico, Mexicans, and things that relate to American and Mexican interaction is the continuing theme of A Gringo in Rural Mexico.   During these days of Advent, the Gringo Viejo will try to employ a bit of nostalgia, a tad of rancour, a smidgen of humour, and a dash of reason.

      The issue with Mr. Holder is cut and dried.   He is a marxist, American-hating, and truth-be-known, like a lot of extreme left-wing activists, he is also anti-Mexican.   He is especially anti-Mexican at times when Mexico seems to be edging, like a blind person feeling his way around a new room, to the political right.  The further Mexico matures away from the "inevitability of world socialism" the more desperate the marxist agencies become in America and Europe to defame and denigrate Mexico.    Admittedly, there are times when Mexico becomes and remains its own worst enemy, as when an otherwise reasonable and inspired President Felipe Calderon makes stupid statements during an address to a joint session of the United States Congress.....but he fell for the idea put forth by the left in both countries that he could advance anything with the American people by saying something uselessly offensive.   Such things only serve to damage him and overall relations, as he quickly learnt.

        Holder is a piece of work.   He is the anti-American slug who did the heavy paper-work shuffling to arrange the pardon for the Puerto Rican terrorists at the end of Billy Jeff's illustrious term of president.   While Hillary Rodham was demanding a pardon for a particular Jewish personality who was associated with a sect that normally votes Republican, Holder was waiting outside the Oval Office to pick up Billy Jeff's signature for Marc Rich's pardon.

       Hillary's intervention cost the Jewish sect's leaders about 90,000 dollars in campaign contributions, and the "Free Marc Rich Fund", (Marc Rich's ex-wife), paid Billy Jeff 400,000 dollars to the Little Rock Taj Mahal Library Project.   The processor for all of it was the estimable Mr. Holder, the lapdog of Gorelick and the butler to Reno.

        It would follow, of course, that the law firm from which Holder was extracted has a long, long, long record of intervening on behalf of agents, individuals, and groups whose main justification is to wake up in the morning and blame America.   They are the people who arrange flights for Elian Gonzalez to be "liberated" from Disneyland and flown back to Fidel so that he can be close to his father and enjoy the advantages of living in a workers' paradise.

     The Republicans err in not making alliance where alliance will aid the issue.   They should point out repeatedly that the "Fast and Furious" program has resulted directly in the death of a member of the United States  Border Patrol....a Marine veteran of Iraq.   But they should also repeat, repeat, repeat and then repeat again, again, and again that the entire reason for the establishment of the program was to defame "gun dealers" and "gun shows" in order to close down those establishments and institutions.   Even when it became clear that was the probable motive, Holder still insisted on having Obama issue an "executive order" requiring more stringent imposition of un-legislated rules and regulations concerning sales of "long-barrel" firearms in the States of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the Peoples' Republic of California.

Chutzpah, I believe is the word.   "Stuff it" is the way John Kerry's elegant, beautiful, and refined wife would express the administration's attitude towards reality.  

     The gun dealers and gun shows have had an excellent record in pointing out what they assume to be straw man purchases.   They have done this over the years at great danger to themselves.

      The myth....or better stated, the lie....about the drug cartels arming themselves from American gun store-shelves is laughable and ridiculous.   It was a convenient intellectual hidey-hole for the Mexican left to use and point out how evil the Americans are and America is.    It was a convenient windmill for the American left to construct and use to point out how evil America is because there are homes that actually have guns in them.

United States Border Patrolman
Brian Terry, QEPD*

        It is very clear, and well known to Americanm Mexican, and Interpol analysts, that 95% of all the guns in the possession of the Cartels come from Red China, the Russian and Eastern European organised crime cartels, Islamic traffickers of armaments, and, until recently from North Viet Nam's  cache of captured ARVN stockpiles.   A recent, huge shipment was recently decommissioned off a PRC ship delivering "commercial goods" to the port of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan.    A brief announcement was made about the incident, and then dropped out of the news mix by the MSM.    There are reports from local observers that Mexican Navy personnel did remove approximately 130 (one hundred and thirty) 2.5 ton truckloads of "military material and other contraband" from the ship, and the ship has been blocked in port now by the Navy.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011 13:46

Mexico Makes Biggest-Ever Firearms Seizure

Written by Jeanna Cullinan

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Federal authorities confiscated 911 guns from a container ship in the port of Lazaro Cardenas, on Mexico's Pacific, which was headed to Nicaragua. The guns were found on board a cargo ship en route to Nicaragua, during a planned stop at the Michoacan port of Lazaro Cardenas. The ship is believed to be of Turkish origin, but no information was provided on the origin or destination of the weapons. The operation was carried out by Mexico’s Navy, working with the Federal Attorney General’s Office and customs officials, and represents the largest seizure of illegal weapons in the country’s history, reports Milenio.The cache included several varieties of handguns and more than 750 shotguns. Organized crime groups generally prefer to use semi-automatic and assault weapons, like the AK-47 or AR-15. One variant on the AK-47, the WASR-10, is the gun most commonly seized within Mexico.

(El Gringo Viejo ran this article some days back.   The ship that was "believed to be of Turkish origin was originally a Turkish ship , but has been in Red Chinese service for some time.    Since this occurred, another Red Chinese ship came in, and we can understand why there might have been some purposeful obfuscation by the Mexican Navy about the provenance of the ship and the cargo.  The number "911 guns" is laughable.    We would urge that the reader consider the Headline of the above story, and not the body to consider the relative importance of the issue at Lazaro Cardenas.    It is an issue the MSM has, as all OROGs can attest, avoided assiduously.
  The other ship carried weapons as well, but had a bit of a cherry for the chocolate sundae as well.  Please continue.)

     While the haul off of the first ship was much larger, in all probability, than what is described in the above article, the second article reveals much less modesty and caution on the part of the Mexican Navy communique'.   To wit:

Mexican Navy Makes Meth Chemical Haul

A massive cargo of a chemical used to make meth, likely destined for the US, is found in 11 shipping containers from China.

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The Mexican navy has seized 226 tons of methylamine, a banned chemical used to manufacture synthetic drugs including methamphetamine, it announced today. The haul was found spread among 11 shipping containers in the Pacific port of Lazaro Cardenas. The containers had been shipped from China; East Asia is a leading consumer and manufacturer of many chemicals and drugs in the amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS) category, which includes meth and ecstasy. And Mexico's many traffickers are only too happy to profit—they're blamed for the bulk of synthetic drug imports to the US market.
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      It is almost certain that the shipment cited above was also carrying large supplies of weaponry and munitions.    The oddity is that much, if not all, of the weaponry was destined for Nicaragua.   It is presumed by various observers that the "new, improved democratic" Daniel Ortega is arming a Liga Voluntaria Sandinista to begin a Che-like infiltration into Costa Rica, Honduras, and even Panama.   Democratic and other "reasonable" leftwing regimes in Central America poo-poo the idea in public, but in private it is taken very seriously.
Since the re-installation of Daniel Ortega....now under heavy pressure due to obviously rigged presidential elections recently conducted in Nicaragua....that Central American country has returned to being a re-arming, re-supplying, and R&R location for cartel traffic.   Mexico has become very precarious in recent times due to Calderon's war on the cartels.
      AND Therefore, to return to the issue, the Republicans, and the defenders of America and the American way, should....nay, MUST.....take out the large blanket and declare the following:

       The Cartel people want to poison your children.   They have allies high in the American entertainment and music industry.    They have allies among the cultureless, atheist, relativist, humanist zombie alliance throughout Europe, Latin America and North America.   "I'm okay, You're okay" is not a good catechism.
        ERIC HOLDER is guilty of conspiracy to implement an illegal policy, regarding the sale and purchase of firearms, which led to the death of an American Border Patrolman and  other innocent American citizens.   By extension, he and his immediate subordinates, and his immediate superior are guilty of being accessories to murder in that they particpated knowingly and willingly in illegal acts that led to those murders.
       They are also guilty of the same crime in relation to the killings (murders) of as many as 10 soldiers in the Army of the Republic of Mexico, and perhaps as many as 5 sailors in the Naval Infantry of the Navy of the Republic of Mexico.   Forensic investigation strongly suggests that they AND as many as 10 innocent civilian individuals, including women and children, were killed as part of collateral loss during confrontatation between established civilian and/or military authourity of the Republic of Mexico and individuals involved in organised crime (cartels), or during incidents involving confrontations between different organised crime elements (cartels).
       That is is hefty charge, perhaps.   But, it is a true charge.   Mexican and American forensic examinations have determined that firearms involved in the "Fast and Furious" lunacy were involved in the loss of life above cited.    Dead innocent Mexicans, dead innocent Americans, all due to a seedy, vile, mendacious attempt to disarm Americans who have a legitimate right to ownership of firearms.
       And yes, El  Gringo Viejo says mendacious because, like the term "hope and change", everything about the establishment, operation, and cover-up pertaining to the "fast and furious" lunacy has been devious, deceitful, and mendacious.    And unjustifiably deadly.  

*QEDP -  A Spanish expression equivalent to RIP.   It states Que En Paz Descanse....That he should rest in peace.

But Scarlet, Sweetie, We've always been Republicans down deep inside, Honeypie.



Democrat  Senator rips Dingey Harry Reid,
 "..... combative and needs to stop with this dead on arrival language."

 

MSNBC’s Chuck Todd: “Senator, let me ask you this. The basic premise seems to be Republicans say, ‘Okay, Democrats, we'll give you the unemployment extension, we'll give you the extension of the payroll tax holiday. We want Keystone.’ And I understand there's other things, but they want the Keystone pipeline. My guess is if you send them back a bill that got rid of that other stuff you didn't like but gave them Keystone, done, everybody goes home for Christmas.”

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO): “Well, let's hope we can negotiate something like that. I think if I were going to critique Harry Reid this morning I really wish we would stop with this dead on arrival, not going to go there and begin to have language like, ‘We're going to take a look at it and see if there's anything that we can agree on here and over the next couple of days try to come to an agreement.’ That's what's really going to happen, and I don't know why this place is so set on, you know, looking like we're combative all the time.”

We shall see.

        Such is the language of a Senator from the Democrat Party who has travelled in her State and talked to the people who are dull, boring, normal, and self-reliant.  She has been sobered by the fact that people despise Harry Ried and Nancy Pelosi.   She is scratching her head about the fact that people are smart enough to know that she and her party are intellectual slugs, hopelessly mired in the muck and stench of the swamp mud of socialism.  The ire and total lack of respect the people have for the persons of Obama and his wife has astounded her.

     So now she can tell all who will hear that she has always been a real "conservative Democrat".   Such is not the case.   In every up and down vote she has waddled along with the rest of the caucus, behind the mother duck, like the little ducklings around her...waddling across the street.

     HER GREAT TEST IS NOW.   IF SHE WISHES SHE CAN JOIN THE VOTE TO BRING THE CANADIAN OIL AND GAS INTO THE NORTH AMERICAN MIX.   MEXICO AND CANADA COMBINED MAKE UP THE GREATEST PROVIDER-SOURCE OF FOREIGN OIL TO THE UNITED STATES.  THE 20,000 JOBS THAT PEOPLE TOUT ARE ACTUALLY NOT JOBS, BUT CAREERS.   THE PIPELINE IS A LIVING THING THAT NEEDS SECURITY, MAINTENANCE, MEASURING ANALYSIS, PAINTING, REPAIRS, CHEMISTS, METEOROLOGISTS, SEISMOLOGISTS, AND SO FORTH....AND THE PIPELINE NEEDS SUCH ATTENTION ON THREE SHIFTS up to and including Christmas Day , every day, all year long.

 

THE POOR, DELICATE CARAMOOBOOS RUN IN FEAR UPON SEEING
THE ALASKA PIPELINE WHICH HAS BEEN KNOWN AS A RACIST PROGRAM
DESIGNED TO KEEP MINORITY VOTERS FROM  REACHING  PLACES WHERE
THEY CAN RECEIVE FREE FOOD.   AND THE CHILDREN, AND ALL THE "ECOLOGICAL"
DAMAGE, AND EVERYTHNG.  This pipeline alone killed over 60,000,000 Transgendered
Eskimoes, and George Bush flew over and laughed at the people writhing in pain.
all the time.    And the golden cheeked warbler....

 

     Many who are doing the construction jobs will be able to obtain middle and high skill blue collar positions providing the necessary attention required to keep the pipeline running.  These are career positions.    The Democrat line that it's only 3,000 or 4,000 temporary construction jobs is not only wrong, it is a purposeful lie.    When Obama talks about and jokes about "shovel ready" jobs....those non-existent jobs really are temporary, but little matter because as he confesses, laughingly, "There weren't quite as many as we thought there would be" when he was lying about the need to pass this or that new stimulus package.

     PIPELINES ARE LIVING PEOPLE.  They require constant attention, like children.   These are positions that require people to live in the area, that pay from 30,000 to 60,000 dollars per year.  In non-union areas a guy can work and not have to kiss some union boss's big toe and live in some Podunk place in western Kansas with no pollution, low crime, no traffic and still be in decent range to see major league sports, hear the symphony, go to great parks and museums, and have schools where the students don't have to worry about gang violence. 

     BUT!  HORRORS OF HORRORS!  Middle and high-skill blue-collar people have a disgusting habit of tending to vote Republican and conservative (yes, Virginia, even  including union members....42%).

Your choice, Senator.   Stand up and be counted, or blindly follow these peculiar people whose only known mission is to damn the successful and the self-reliant, and to lump all reasoned thinkers into a group called racist.

El Gringo Viejo 

Another Major Victory

A couple of days ago elements of the Mexican Naval Infantry drove by a cluster of individuals in Valle Hermoso, Tamaulipas.   It appeared as though several were known to have active wants and warrants on them.   There were two vehicles with license plates that did not pertain to those vehicles.   There had been a telephonic "anonymous denunciation" along with various cyber "anonymous denunciations" from the normal dumboes in the area, and the patrol was working on that information and on their own reconnaissance.

     They drove around the block, and on the second pass, came under fire by these same men who were using automatic rifles.    The Naval Infantry returned fire, having one marinero wounded. They called for reinforcements from the nearby Matamoros Garrison.  Of over-riding importance was the minimalisation of collateral damage due to the location of the battle-site.   It was about 4 blocks from the center of the city of 60,000.   The ruffians had taken refuge inside what is essentially a warehouse and intermittent factory that processes steel and iron contstruction items.

      The pistoleros had 73 automatic or semi-automatic rifles, 6 semi-automatic pistols, and various accoutrements likes cell phones, bullet proofed jackets, helmets, a small amount of marijuana and cocaine, and by a fairly good count 110,000 rounds of AK47 and AR16 automatic rifle ammunition.  This count was finished after a two hour engagement which left 11 pistoleros dead, none wounded, and none captured.  The wounded Marine has been returned to active duty.

      All of the arms and munitions were of Red Chinese origin, save for 24 out-of-date, Yugoslavia-era, round, hand-grenades.

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The toll road entry that enters into the
Chilpancingo de los Bravo
 Metropolitan Area
population - 300,000 

Occupy Chilpancingo?

     The capital of Guerrero State in southern Mexico has had a fairly lengthy episode of "student" protesters who have been blocking traffic on a major highway (fairly common tactic by communist and leftist community organisers) and generally putting the secondary and preparatory schools into a state of suspension.    The organisers are most probably gangs and communists working together to hype up the students who cannot think too deeply and terrorising the ones who really have no truck with their cause.    The second group runs home and to the police station and the first group makes molotovs and clusters up brick, pieces of concrete block, scoopings of poo-poo from dogs or any other source, making bags of urine, and making pint bags of Clorox.    These fixings are used to kill, injure, or contaminate personnel representing authourity.

     Of course, the private property of anyone is attacked.   A PEMEX gasoline station across the highway from the school compound was molotov'd and destroyed.   The "students" were filmed performing the act.....about 40 participated and could be seen jumping for joy and celebrating.    Much damage and vandalism was committed against the school and its immediate surroundings.

     The State Police finally arrive after about three hours of excesses.   They were driven off by gunfire, molotov cocktails, pieces of steel pipe, concrete block, and rocks.   The numbers of "students" who had been more active became less active and many were drifting away.   The hard core was celebrating their "victory".   Security cameras at businesses showed the rioters hijacking busses...mainly the first class and deluxe express busses on their way to Acapulco with early Virgin of Guadalupe Day and Christmastide celebrants.    They would then turn the busses across the lanes of traffic so as to block all southbound traffic, which, of course was considerable at the time.

Downtown Chilpancingo.  The city itself is clean
and very tranquil.  The OROG is seeing the State
Capitol and behind it is the main Cathedral in the
Diocese of Chilpancingo

    They knew these actions would bring the federal police and perhaps even the Army....and they set up an ambush for whomsoever might be arriving.   The problem is that when the Federal Uniformed Police and elements of the Army arrived, it was not a squad of 10 or 15 dumboes with 60 year old Colt .45 semi-automatic pistols.    They arrived in force, about 200 of them, all heavily armed.   In spite of the obvious mismatch, two or three idiot demonstrators fired on them and about 40 assaulted them with fire bombs, pieces of pipe dipped in poo-poo, bags of urine and dog poop, and rocks.   When it was over, there were 15 officers in the hospital and two "occupiers" dead.    The highway was open.   The PEMEX gasoline station was already being sized up for clean up and rebuilding.

     And....of course....the Mexican Commission of Human Rights has arrived to console the families of the poor, innocent dead "students" ....in spite of clear evidence that they were little more than murderous vandals, intent on some unexplainable mission of nihilism and anarchy simply because it seemed like a good idea.   The lists of demands the group had been making had been changed daily....and when agreed to...the agreements had been refused.   It was a very typical communist-style confrontation that goes on at schools and universities everywhere in the world.   "The bus fares went up and now the students cannot afford to go to school.  Capitalist exploitation.  They do not want the lower people to rise to their level.   It is discrimination on the Indian communities by the bourgeoisie white and mestizo Mexicans!!"

    Okay, we'll print vouchers that the students can use and ride the busses for free.

    "We will never fall for your enticements and tricks to agree with such a ridiculous proposal.  They will identify us and take us up into the mountain and shoot us.  They will know who we are because we are paying with the vouchers.   You are fools to think that we cannot see through you tricks."

Some might consider this wooly image of a tropical mountain village as some thing almost foreboding.   Actually it is Chilpancingo, a real, live capital city.  About 150 inches of rain every year, full markets of every known and unknown vegetative eatables, about 80% Indian population.   But, 70% of the population can speak Spanish now.   Very pleasant place.

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      Yesterday, there were several thousands people marching in this community adjacent to Chilpancingo.   The Gringo Viejo thought, "Oh! My God, here it goes again."   The area is famous for almost continous turmoil.   Since the Revolucion de 1910 - 1917, no civilian governor has served out his term in the State of Guerrero.   It's a business there.   Oddly, it is also a fairly pleasant place to hang around on a long term basis as well.

     But wait!   The signs....Oh! My God!   The signs are expressing support for the military and the police.   There must be 40,000 people....it's incredible.    Now, the Old Gringo will see if Telavisa and/or TV Azteca or CNN en Espanol or any of the mainstream press will carry this turn of events.

This is enough for a while.  Back in touch later.

El Gringo Viejo

  
PS  -   CBS c0verage of the incident.   The reporter conveniently leaves out 16 minutes of filming from adjacent business's outside security cameras and other filming done by bus-drivers with their cellular telephones that all captured, in colour and good detail, the facts as presented in the Gringo Viejo's blog entry.   Oddly, about 75% of the reporter's observations are accurate.   He just could not help himself from putting in the bilge about the 40 missing and the detained people.   That is ....like...point #6 in the communist manual on how to spawn and conduct a riot.   Always declare that there are "disappeared" persons.   These are usually girls who have been raped and murdered by the same organisers of the riots, and boys who have not followed orders or who threatened to "rat out" the perpetrators.   Or, more commonly, the issue is made up from whole cloth.
   http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501715_162-57342609/mexican-police-weapons-found-at-protest-site/