The WHO & Mexico reports world’s first-ever human case & death from H5N2 bird flu (another bird flu type, not the H5N1 that’s more active lately).
The 59-year-old died in Mexico City and had ZERO exposure contact with any poultry or other animals.
https://t.me/bajanews/756

As the presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador ends, he leaves Mexico’s military the largest and most powerful the country has ever seen. He's expanded its mandate to include key infrastructure projects such as airports and railways, which the military administers with little or no transparency. But critics say its new role has come at a grim price. With record-high homicides, Mexicans are wondering if public works are coming at the expense of public safety.
https://t.me/bajanews/755

"If someone says it's raining and another person says it's dry, it's not our job to quote them both, our job is to look out of the f***ing window and find out which is true."
That's why we post so little..... we are at Baja Sur, not LA or NY and love the "sleepy"
We are "old style"!!
The news tell you that somethings happened then you had to decide what you thought about it.
Now the news tells you how to think about something and you have to decide if it even happened??
https://t.me/bajanews/749

“López Obrador doesn’t understand foreign policy,” Sarukhan, the former diplomat, said. “He doesn’t understand how the world has changed since the 1970s and how Mexico’s role in the world has changed.”
https://t.me/bajanews/736

Watch the Moon’s shadow fly from Mazatlan to Newfoundland on April 8, 2024!
Mazatlan is the prime viewing location.
This animation simulates the view from a spacecraft 100 miles high.
Experience nature’s greatest sight — a total eclipse of the Sun!
On April 8, 2024, the shadow of the Moon will cross Mexico, the United States, and Canada
This spectacular total solar eclipse will amaze many millions of people.
This is sure to be a record-setting astronomical event.
https://t.me/bajanews/734

Did Drug Traffickers Funnel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?
Witnesses told the DEA that the money was provided in return for a promise that a future López Obrador government would tolerate the cartel’s operations.

U.S. drug-enforcement agents uncovered what they believed was substantial evidence that major cocaine traffickers had funneled some $2 million to his first presidential campaign.
https://bcs-mx.com/AMLO-Crook

How to spot fake news!
Don’t become a victim of fake news 📰😳
Here are some helpful tips to debunk questionable news articles.

While calling for a moratorium on seabed mining in international waters, it remains unclear if Mexico will allow deep-sea mining in its own waters; there are several mining concessions in the Bay of Ulloa, off the coast of Baja California.
https://t.me/bajanews/712

The number of women active in Mexico’s criminal organizations has risen steadily in recent years. Women often view joining criminal groups as a way of protecting themselves from gender-based violence and acquiring the power and respect they lack in law-abiding society.
https://t.me/bajanews/711

After Mexico’s record storm, survivors say only tourist areas are getting the love.
Otis became the first Pacific hurricane ever to make landfall with maximum Category 5 intensity.
Over the past month, the Mexican government’s help and reconstruction efforts have focused mainly on the coastal, touristic parts of Acapulco, residents and aid responders say.
People only survived thanks to the hot meals aid organisations have been serving.
https://t.me/bajanews/710
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Americans' insatiable appetite for the humble avocado — a tasty fruit inexplicably linked to millennials' financial habits in the popular discourse — is fueling a wave of deforestation in the western part of Mexico,
https://t.me/bajanews/708

Mexico sees solid economic expansion but price pressures persist.
In testimony before lawmakers, Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio talked up the expected expansion of the country's gross domestic product (GDP), and largely dismissed concerns that the gaining value of the local currency was bad for shipments to foreign markets.
https://t.me/bajanews/706

A local security secretary and 12 police officers were shot dead in Guerrero state Monday, authorities said, the worst episode in a day of violence across southwestern Mexico that killed at least 19 people.
Eleven people were initially reported killed in the attack in El Papayo, which is in the Guerrero township of Coyuca de Benítez on the Pacific Coast.
Officials are finding themselves increasingly endangered where powerful drug cartels continue to fight for control.
https://r.sa-seo.com/bloodshed

The Baja California Sur Health Secretariat recommends to use face masks in case of symptoms of respiratory diseases remains in force. In addition, the measure is also suggested for elderly people and people with underlying conditions.
The research program on epidemiological risks of the National Autonomous University Mexico (UNAM) has registered “a wide circulation of the virus at the community level that coincides with the recent report of new subvariants of the virus,”
https://bajanews.gringo-gazette.com/2023/09/covid-is-back.html

The decision by Mexico’s Supreme Court to invalidate all federal criminal penalties for abortion opened access for millions of people in the sprawling public health system a year after the court’s U.S. counterpart went in the opposite direction.
Under Mexico ‘s legal system, the ruling did not invalidate all criminal penalties for abortion, which remained on the books Thursday in 20 of Mexico’s 32 states.
https://r.sa-seo.com/MexAbortion

Heavy rains during afternoon and into the evening accompanied by lightning and thunder in La Paz area.
Limitation in traffic due to flooded fords
Full report at Baja News
https://bajanews.gringo-gazette.com/2023/08/heavy-rains-in-la-paz.html

Mexico supplanted China this year as the United States' top trading partner.
The decline of China as the USA's top trading partner comes after years of worsening U.S.-China relations and reflects Mexico's rise in manufacturing — hastened along by a new push to "nearshore" that work closer to the U.S.
https://wwwizzards.com/UJpH15

After stalling the process of Sweden joining #NATO due to Turkey's concerns about the country harboring PKK members, President Erdoğan has given the green light for the Northern European country's accession to the military alliance.

A year from now, Claudia Sheinbaum is likely to be Mexico's next president. It’s also because Sheinbaum is an undeniably impressive candidate who’s built a solid reputation as the leftist mayor of Mexico City. Like López Obrador, she pledges to “shrink the great inequalities” that have defined Mexican society throughout its history.
https://www.gzeromedia.com/mexicos-next-president

A semi-submersible vessel carrying more than 7,000 pounds of suspected cocaine was intercepted in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico, the country’s navy announced Thursday, in a dramatic seizure captured on video.