Thursday, March 24, 2011
Whippets With Hernias
Living in Tampico, "I can tell my first shooting?"
Hugo Vargas PROCESS
criminal groups have in check Tampico. " Insecurity, street battles, robberies, kidnappings and uprisings have led to economic collapse, people look for other horizons, the specialists run away and the locals live unhinged by fear. A 10 year old girl survives a shooting, a young girl lives to tell after a boost, a journalist explains why one must be silent ... are snapshots of the Tampico collapse.
TAMPICO, Tamps, March 23 (Process) .- With the approach of Easter, when the Miramar beach turns into a bar five miles and hotel occupancy and there is full economic benefit, the authorities try to clean up place. The Buenos Aires city council bans tinted glass and announced, with the verb in vogue, that the Federal Police "shield" April holiday.
Altamira The mayor decided to close at seven p.m. Treasure Beach, a destination that has tried to promote and where he hopes to receive 70 thousand visitors.
But the crisis in the state unabated. Earlier this month, the secretaries of Defense and the Navy took over the supervision of the 19 largest ports in the country, including Tampico and Altamira, Tamaulipas while following the war between the cartels, and the outbreak of shootings a car bomb on the premises of the State Police in Ciudad Victoria, which left two wounded. Tampico
reached the front pages of newspapers across the country in April 2010, when life literally stopped, closed shops, the streets were empty and public transport, without passengers. The Gulf Cartel published an ad in the newspaper announcing the curfew:
"This weekend respect the curfew ... No go. We have orders to defend the city from all enemies, we are not to blame for where sucite (sic) the shootings, are part of Tamaulipas. Do not panic, nothing will happen, everything is against the Zetas not against citizenship (sic). Seriously, do not be afraid, only (sic) respect the curfew this weekend and nobody gets hurt, to continue their normal lives, the Marines do not come by the poster (sic), just (sic) to run the Zetas. "
In May last year Tamaulipas occupy a prominent place in national reporting to the murder of the PAN candidate for mayor of Valle Hermoso, Mario Guajardo Varela, and in June, with Rodolfo Torre Cantú, PRI candidate for governor.
That same month, Humberto Valdez Richard, Secretary of Social Development, reported that poverty had increased in Altamira, Matamoros, Laredo and Reynosa. And on July 28, Luis Apperti, president of the Manufacturers Association of Southern Tamaulipas, warned that German companies, American, Italian, Korean and Indian installed in Altamira analyzed "the possibility of closing the climate of insecurity." Oscar Perez
Inguanzo, outgoing mayor of Tampico, estimated at 30% loss of investment due to insecurity and said that hotels, restaurants and tourist infrastructure had been the most affected items.
The incoming mayor, Magdalena Guerra Peraza, accept that his administration was born in "a period of crisis" and was "a difficult time to govern Tampico." So hard, that three council members (two PAN and PRI) did not assume their posts, because they left the institution.
Outside of school
is the starting time of schools October 1 last year. Laura, 10, board the vehicle that will carry you home. Going with fellow mothers take turns to pick. Spend 10 minutes ride when we hear the blasts and the blasts. The lady at the wheel reacts well and ordered the children lie on the bottom of the car. Laura is due in a panic.
The blasts are for minutes that seem endless. Then everything stops. Upon arriving home with his family sitting at the table, Laura says about releasing the tears: "I can tell my first shooting?".
"The knack", "those", it says here to refer to bands that have been put in check port. But quietly, in fear that someone might listen. Tampico many seem to know who the bad guys, but none of them going through your head go to the authorities.
Apparently there is consensus that the state of Tamaulipas worsened the divide between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. For many, the violence began escalating in the last year of government of Tomás Yarrington.
"Los Zetas have been slow to become independent," says a journalist Tampico. "Eventually they realized that they were a real power in the cartel, handled the armed apparatus, controlled many of the routes of traffic of drugs and had committed Osiel the mistake of putting them in front of some places. "
majority also seems the view that the Gulf cartel is dedicated to drug trafficking as Los Zetas have expanded the range of businesses and include kidnapping, extortion, piracy ... Even there whom believe the Cartel was also devoted to kidnapping.
Anyway, all these criminal money has been so effective that, according to the state government, between July and September 2010 had closed more than 3000 businesses and at least 200 businesses were out of Tamaulipas.
Before an apparent weakening and faithful to its source paramilitary, Los Zetas have used cam ranches in the state. Anyway have a reserve army: according to the National Center for Higher Education Assessment in Tamaulipas is 150 000 Ninis.
The battle between drug groups being waged across the state. In the south through the ports of Tampico and Altamira, and north on the border towns, particularly Nuevo Laredo, where he spends 28% of trade in NAFTA, thousands and thousands of containers and trailers daily.
But what frightens the Tamaulipas is that the confrontation could escalate, as it speaks of a joint offensive by the Navy, Army, Federal Police and even the Gulf cartel against Los Zetas statewide. And Tampico would be a wonderful scenery.
Life has changed for the locals. For mature people, out of concern for their children, for young people, by the deterioration of social life in both cases by fear of death. The phone is a staple. It is the fastest way to warn of a "party" as they say here to refer to the shootings.
For young people the situation is drama: the closure of nightclubs, the disappearance of entire spaces, of the dozens of restaurants, bars and cafes on the beach there is not no one, and walk around at night is risking their lives - insecurity fear and rigor of parents with schedules. "My daughter and her friends are desperate," said one housewife. "They say they are losing the best years of his life."
For other segments of society is no better thing. In the center of the city survive a few bars, with clients from medium and low income. Only a handful of places open after midnight and some of them say here are the property of drug traffickers. The tables were gone: the girls went in search of better conditions and the few that were reached by telephone.
The crisis is palpable in all areas. The Ministry of Health and IMSS physicians agree that 102 left the state. The camera restaurateur reports that about 200 establishments Tampico canceled their evening hours, with a decline in sales of 40%.
Travel by road, even in short intervals is life or property. "The least unsafe way to travel is by bus and preference of day," says the IMSS social worker who makes a weekly routine between Tampico and Ciudad Victoria. Gives instructions for driving around town: "Do not touch the horn, not overtopping. The Tampico now we are very educated to handle, "he says sarcastically.
One of the first victims of war is truth. After the attacks on newspapers in the border and the recent death of Carlos Alberto Guajardo, a reporter for Expresso of Matamoros, in the crossfire, the newspaper chose not to address the issue.
"They go to the editors of the newspapers and ordered to be published. And as we know that we should not play him the hero, because we obey. What else is there? They are masters of our lives, "says a reporter.
"not him"
One morning last month, Roberto startled awake by a knock on the door and the noise in the house. Not enough to join when two men already irons and beaten and abused him out of his house. As I climb into the truck thinks of his wife and their three year old son. Just remember the time, 2:43 am, the alarm clock.
is brought to a safe house where they have a guy tied hand and foot. I planted in front of him and say, "Let's see fucking, is this dude?". The bound man, who has been viciously beaten, sets her sights on Robert. Spend a few moments of silence. At last he says: "No, not him." Someone else comes forward: "It is the third bastard that we bring. You're going .... " And shoots him in the head. Roberto
returned to his home. Confused him with a counter of Los Zetas. He and his family are in therapy and seek an opportunity to leave port.
2010 balances are devastating to the state. Economic crisis, disappearance of the state, violence, insecurity and fear.
Tamaulipas is in a precarious situation that threatens their position in the national economy. According to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), lies in eighth place in the field and has a per capita income of 93 thousand 740 pesos.
According to the organization, its strengths are a strong economy, higher density land per worker, the second state with a lower risk of debt and the third with the highest level of openness and effectiveness of tax collection. Its weakness is a very strong: it is the third company with the highest crime rate: 19 000 677 crimes per 100 000 inhabitants.
About 35 thousand small and medium enterprises in nine counties had losses of 3 billion pesos as a result of the uncertainty that has depressed consumption and caused a mass exodus. According to INEGI, the sales of those businesses have slumped 40%, which would affect 22 000 people employed in them.
According to agricultural census, in Tamaulipas are 13 000 farms of which, according to the newspaper Reforma, have been abandoned about 3 000 500.
The Ministry of Public Security and the state attorney accepted an increase of 20% in theft and the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions (AMIS) will ensure that auto theft has increased 102% in Tamaulipas.
Two balances are striking: the federal Ministry of Tourism said that investment in that line fell 77% in the state, and José María Leal, rector of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, said in late 2010 to 2 000 350 students foreign, mostly U.S. and Canada, have returned to their countries to escape insecurity.
Baldit According to Gonzalo Araujo, deputy municipal Economic Development, unemployment is 6.7% in Tampico, above the national average which is 5.8%.
Psychological
All these months of violence and chaos have taken effect on the mental health of Tamaulipas. According Silvano Martínez Cano, chief of the Department of State Mental Health, insecurity has "Crazy" for Tamaulipas full of fear, stress and depression.
The state Health Department has made available to the public the service of 160 psychologists who attend emergencies. "Here we have not heard of such a measure," says an official at the psychiatric hospital in Tampico.
The Tamaulipas seem to fall for the foreseeable future. Although Egidio over from Torres Cantú-shot candidate's brother, occurred smoothly, is seen by most the only attributes needed to address the crisis. Some say one of the biggest beneficiaries of the scheme Eugenio Hernández Torres. Circle with at least 140 escorts.
Expresso The survey group "The Reason, social and governmental assessment is revealing: the majority (54%) believe that the new government will be a mediocre, 21%, to be incapable, and 24%, it will be good. Regarding the ability of the governor, a little more than half is regular skills Egidio Torres, 20% did not see any, and 25.5% believe that it is capable of cope.
When asked if they saw a solution to the violence and insecurity, 67% believe the problem will be solved, but that much time, 12.5%, which will be resolved soon, and 20%, will not be solved ever.
Life is tough. "I try to keep my things, go out with friends, going to the movies, I run on the beach," says an athlete Buenos Aires. I'm not saying that is not afraid. I take my precautions. "
is Saturday and the beach is crowded. Somewhere nearby Maeva some workers began to unload chairs and tables. Orders with pause and after a while have installed a score, blue and white tablecloths, fluttering in the wind, with games of cups and glasses. In the evening guests arrive and boyfriends.
After the civil ceremony, after the judge declares them husband and wife, the newlyweds go to sea, wet feet and talk. Smiling back at people. The party, which, otherwise would have gone with a lunada, just before dark. 
Hugo Vargas PROCESS
criminal groups have in check Tampico. " Insecurity, street battles, robberies, kidnappings and uprisings have led to economic collapse, people look for other horizons, the specialists run away and the locals live unhinged by fear. A 10 year old girl survives a shooting, a young girl lives to tell after a boost, a journalist explains why one must be silent ... are snapshots of the Tampico collapse.
TAMPICO, Tamps, March 23 (Process) .- With the approach of Easter, when the Miramar beach turns into a bar five miles and hotel occupancy and there is full economic benefit, the authorities try to clean up place. The Buenos Aires city council bans tinted glass and announced, with the verb in vogue, that the Federal Police "shield" April holiday.
Altamira The mayor decided to close at seven p.m. Treasure Beach, a destination that has tried to promote and where he hopes to receive 70 thousand visitors.
But the crisis in the state unabated. Earlier this month, the secretaries of Defense and the Navy took over the supervision of the 19 largest ports in the country, including Tampico and Altamira, Tamaulipas while following the war between the cartels, and the outbreak of shootings a car bomb on the premises of the State Police in Ciudad Victoria, which left two wounded. Tampico
reached the front pages of newspapers across the country in April 2010, when life literally stopped, closed shops, the streets were empty and public transport, without passengers. The Gulf Cartel published an ad in the newspaper announcing the curfew:
"This weekend respect the curfew ... No go. We have orders to defend the city from all enemies, we are not to blame for where sucite (sic) the shootings, are part of Tamaulipas. Do not panic, nothing will happen, everything is against the Zetas not against citizenship (sic). Seriously, do not be afraid, only (sic) respect the curfew this weekend and nobody gets hurt, to continue their normal lives, the Marines do not come by the poster (sic), just (sic) to run the Zetas. "
In May last year Tamaulipas occupy a prominent place in national reporting to the murder of the PAN candidate for mayor of Valle Hermoso, Mario Guajardo Varela, and in June, with Rodolfo Torre Cantú, PRI candidate for governor.
That same month, Humberto Valdez Richard, Secretary of Social Development, reported that poverty had increased in Altamira, Matamoros, Laredo and Reynosa. And on July 28, Luis Apperti, president of the Manufacturers Association of Southern Tamaulipas, warned that German companies, American, Italian, Korean and Indian installed in Altamira analyzed "the possibility of closing the climate of insecurity." Oscar Perez
Inguanzo, outgoing mayor of Tampico, estimated at 30% loss of investment due to insecurity and said that hotels, restaurants and tourist infrastructure had been the most affected items.
The incoming mayor, Magdalena Guerra Peraza, accept that his administration was born in "a period of crisis" and was "a difficult time to govern Tampico." So hard, that three council members (two PAN and PRI) did not assume their posts, because they left the institution.
Outside of school
is the starting time of schools October 1 last year. Laura, 10, board the vehicle that will carry you home. Going with fellow mothers take turns to pick. Spend 10 minutes ride when we hear the blasts and the blasts. The lady at the wheel reacts well and ordered the children lie on the bottom of the car. Laura is due in a panic.
The blasts are for minutes that seem endless. Then everything stops. Upon arriving home with his family sitting at the table, Laura says about releasing the tears: "I can tell my first shooting?".
"The knack", "those", it says here to refer to bands that have been put in check port. But quietly, in fear that someone might listen. Tampico many seem to know who the bad guys, but none of them going through your head go to the authorities.
Apparently there is consensus that the state of Tamaulipas worsened the divide between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas. For many, the violence began escalating in the last year of government of Tomás Yarrington.
"Los Zetas have been slow to become independent," says a journalist Tampico. "Eventually they realized that they were a real power in the cartel, handled the armed apparatus, controlled many of the routes of traffic of drugs and had committed Osiel the mistake of putting them in front of some places. "
majority also seems the view that the Gulf cartel is dedicated to drug trafficking as Los Zetas have expanded the range of businesses and include kidnapping, extortion, piracy ... Even there whom believe the Cartel was also devoted to kidnapping.
Anyway, all these criminal money has been so effective that, according to the state government, between July and September 2010 had closed more than 3000 businesses and at least 200 businesses were out of Tamaulipas.
Before an apparent weakening and faithful to its source paramilitary, Los Zetas have used cam ranches in the state. Anyway have a reserve army: according to the National Center for Higher Education Assessment in Tamaulipas is 150 000 Ninis.
The battle between drug groups being waged across the state. In the south through the ports of Tampico and Altamira, and north on the border towns, particularly Nuevo Laredo, where he spends 28% of trade in NAFTA, thousands and thousands of containers and trailers daily.
But what frightens the Tamaulipas is that the confrontation could escalate, as it speaks of a joint offensive by the Navy, Army, Federal Police and even the Gulf cartel against Los Zetas statewide. And Tampico would be a wonderful scenery.
Life has changed for the locals. For mature people, out of concern for their children, for young people, by the deterioration of social life in both cases by fear of death. The phone is a staple. It is the fastest way to warn of a "party" as they say here to refer to the shootings.
For young people the situation is drama: the closure of nightclubs, the disappearance of entire spaces, of the dozens of restaurants, bars and cafes on the beach there is not no one, and walk around at night is risking their lives - insecurity fear and rigor of parents with schedules. "My daughter and her friends are desperate," said one housewife. "They say they are losing the best years of his life."
For other segments of society is no better thing. In the center of the city survive a few bars, with clients from medium and low income. Only a handful of places open after midnight and some of them say here are the property of drug traffickers. The tables were gone: the girls went in search of better conditions and the few that were reached by telephone.
The crisis is palpable in all areas. The Ministry of Health and IMSS physicians agree that 102 left the state. The camera restaurateur reports that about 200 establishments Tampico canceled their evening hours, with a decline in sales of 40%.
Travel by road, even in short intervals is life or property. "The least unsafe way to travel is by bus and preference of day," says the IMSS social worker who makes a weekly routine between Tampico and Ciudad Victoria. Gives instructions for driving around town: "Do not touch the horn, not overtopping. The Tampico now we are very educated to handle, "he says sarcastically.
One of the first victims of war is truth. After the attacks on newspapers in the border and the recent death of Carlos Alberto Guajardo, a reporter for Expresso of Matamoros, in the crossfire, the newspaper chose not to address the issue.
"They go to the editors of the newspapers and ordered to be published. And as we know that we should not play him the hero, because we obey. What else is there? They are masters of our lives, "says a reporter.
"not him"
One morning last month, Roberto startled awake by a knock on the door and the noise in the house. Not enough to join when two men already irons and beaten and abused him out of his house. As I climb into the truck thinks of his wife and their three year old son. Just remember the time, 2:43 am, the alarm clock.
is brought to a safe house where they have a guy tied hand and foot. I planted in front of him and say, "Let's see fucking, is this dude?". The bound man, who has been viciously beaten, sets her sights on Robert. Spend a few moments of silence. At last he says: "No, not him." Someone else comes forward: "It is the third bastard that we bring. You're going .... " And shoots him in the head. Roberto
returned to his home. Confused him with a counter of Los Zetas. He and his family are in therapy and seek an opportunity to leave port.
2010 balances are devastating to the state. Economic crisis, disappearance of the state, violence, insecurity and fear.
Tamaulipas is in a precarious situation that threatens their position in the national economy. According to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO), lies in eighth place in the field and has a per capita income of 93 thousand 740 pesos.
According to the organization, its strengths are a strong economy, higher density land per worker, the second state with a lower risk of debt and the third with the highest level of openness and effectiveness of tax collection. Its weakness is a very strong: it is the third company with the highest crime rate: 19 000 677 crimes per 100 000 inhabitants.
About 35 thousand small and medium enterprises in nine counties had losses of 3 billion pesos as a result of the uncertainty that has depressed consumption and caused a mass exodus. According to INEGI, the sales of those businesses have slumped 40%, which would affect 22 000 people employed in them.
According to agricultural census, in Tamaulipas are 13 000 farms of which, according to the newspaper Reforma, have been abandoned about 3 000 500.
The Ministry of Public Security and the state attorney accepted an increase of 20% in theft and the Mexican Association of Insurance Institutions (AMIS) will ensure that auto theft has increased 102% in Tamaulipas.
Two balances are striking: the federal Ministry of Tourism said that investment in that line fell 77% in the state, and José María Leal, rector of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, said in late 2010 to 2 000 350 students foreign, mostly U.S. and Canada, have returned to their countries to escape insecurity.
Baldit According to Gonzalo Araujo, deputy municipal Economic Development, unemployment is 6.7% in Tampico, above the national average which is 5.8%.
Psychological
All these months of violence and chaos have taken effect on the mental health of Tamaulipas. According Silvano Martínez Cano, chief of the Department of State Mental Health, insecurity has "Crazy" for Tamaulipas full of fear, stress and depression.
The state Health Department has made available to the public the service of 160 psychologists who attend emergencies. "Here we have not heard of such a measure," says an official at the psychiatric hospital in Tampico.
The Tamaulipas seem to fall for the foreseeable future. Although Egidio over from Torres Cantú-shot candidate's brother, occurred smoothly, is seen by most the only attributes needed to address the crisis. Some say one of the biggest beneficiaries of the scheme Eugenio Hernández Torres. Circle with at least 140 escorts.
Expresso The survey group "The Reason, social and governmental assessment is revealing: the majority (54%) believe that the new government will be a mediocre, 21%, to be incapable, and 24%, it will be good. Regarding the ability of the governor, a little more than half is regular skills Egidio Torres, 20% did not see any, and 25.5% believe that it is capable of cope.
When asked if they saw a solution to the violence and insecurity, 67% believe the problem will be solved, but that much time, 12.5%, which will be resolved soon, and 20%, will not be solved ever.
Life is tough. "I try to keep my things, go out with friends, going to the movies, I run on the beach," says an athlete Buenos Aires. I'm not saying that is not afraid. I take my precautions. "
is Saturday and the beach is crowded. Somewhere nearby Maeva some workers began to unload chairs and tables. Orders with pause and after a while have installed a score, blue and white tablecloths, fluttering in the wind, with games of cups and glasses. In the evening guests arrive and boyfriends.
After the civil ceremony, after the judge declares them husband and wife, the newlyweds go to sea, wet feet and talk. Smiling back at people. The party, which, otherwise would have gone with a lunada, just before dark.
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Breaking the waves, a gentle breeze blows, the smell of sea ..
Breaking the waves, a gentle breeze blows, the smell of sea ..
I lie on the sand and close my eyes, I remember all lived on this beach;
our kisses, caresses, confidences, laughter ...
I'm still waiting to return.
a soft song sounds coming from the bar, yeah, it's our song, I remember how he became ours. Sale
a tear ... the breeze dry me, I think that is your hand, but you're not here ..
I miss you ... ♥
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