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US has detained record 2.1 million migrants at the US-Mexico border this year  

US border policy during pandemic’s height pushed up numbers artificially, CBP officials say

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

United States authorities made over 2 million arrests of migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border in the 11 months to the end of August, the highest number ever recorded during a U.S. fiscal year (which doesn’t end until September 30).

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data shows that just over 2.15 million migrants were detained along the United States southern land border between October 1, 2021 – the beginning of fiscal year 2022 (FY2022) – and August 31.

It is the first time that more than 2 million migrants have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border during a fiscal year. The FY 2022 figure includes repeat crossers, meaning that the total number of migrants who have been arrested is somewhat lower.

“The large number of expulsions [to Mexico rather than repatriation to countries further afield] during the pandemic has contributed to a higher-than-usual number of migrants making multiple border crossing attempts, which means that total encounters somewhat overstate the number of unique individuals arriving at the border,” CBP said.

The Title 42 emergency public health policy put into place in the U.S. at the start of the pandemic allowed border authorities to send some migrants immediately back to Mexico, rather than to their home countries, which appeared to contribute to high numbers in FY 2022 and FY 2021 because migrants dumped near the U.S. border in Mexico then tried to cross into the U.S. again.

CBP is on track to make some 2.3 million arrests of migrants at the United States’ southern border by the end of September, exceeding the previous record set in FY 2021 by about 35 percent.

Another reason the U.S. has cited for the increased numbers in FY 2022 is a surge in migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

“Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration across the Western Hemisphere, including the recent increase in encounters at the southwest U.S. border,” CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus said in a statement Monday.

“… At the same time, the number of migrants entering from Mexico and northern Central America has decreased for the third consecutive month, as the Biden-Harris Administration works with our partners in the region to address the root causes of migration, facilitate repatriation, and take thousands of smugglers off the streets. More individuals encountered at the border without a legal basis to remain will be expelled or removed this year than any prior year,” Magnus added.

A record high of more than 1.3 million migrants has already been expelled from the United States during FY 2022 after being detained shortly after crossing into the country.

CBP data shows that more than 200,000 arrests have been made at the United States’ southwest border every month since March. The total for last month was 203,597, a 1.8 percent increase compared to July but a 4.7 percent decline compared to August 2021.

CBP said that the number of unique individuals encountered in August 2022 was 157,921 and that 35 percent of the total – 55,333 – were migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba.

“Individuals from Mexico and northern Central America [mainly Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador] were down for the third month in a row and accounted for just 36 percent of unique encounters, marking a decline of 43 percent in unique encounters from those countries compared to August 2021,” CBP said.

Mexican migrants were arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border over 700,000 times in the past 11 months, meaning that they have accounted for about one-third of all CBP detentions so far in FY22.

While Mexico and the United States have cooperated on efforts to stem irregular migration, push factors including poverty and insecurity remain strong here and in many other Western Hemisphere countries, including those mentioned by the CBP.

With reports from Animal Político and The Washington Post. 

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Arrest warrants issued in Ayotzinapa case include retired army general

The then-colonel allegedly ordered the killing of six students

by Mexico News Daily

A retired army general is among scores of people sought in connection with the disappearance and presumed murder of 43 students in Guerrero in 2014, the newspaper El País reported Wednesday.

Retired Gen. José Rodríguez Pérez, a then-colonel who commanded the 27th infantry batallion at the time of the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers College students’ disappearance in Iguala on Sept. 26, 2014, is accused of ordering the murders of six students several days after they went missing.

On Aug. 19 – the day former attorney general Jesús Murillo Karam was arrested in connection with the students’ disappearance – the federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) said that a federal judge had issued a total of 83 arrest warrants against 20 military commanders and soldiers belonging to two battalions in Iguala, five administrative and judicial officials in Guerrero, 33 municipal police officers from Huitzuco, Iguala and Cocula, 11 state police and 14 members of the criminal organization Guerreros Unidos.

The FGR hasn’t said whether Rodríguez – who became a general in 2015 before retiring a short time later – is among the military commanders sought, but El País reported that sources close to the investigation have confirmed that he is.

The revelation comes almost two weeks after Deputy Interior Minister Alejandro Encinas, the government’s point man for the Ayotzinapa case, made explosive accusations against the fugitive army leader. Speaking at President López Obrador’s regular news conference on August 26, Encinas said there was evidence that six of the 43 Ayotzinapa students were held in a warehouse for several days before Rodríguez ordered their murders.

It was the first time that the government directly accused the military of active participation in crimes committed against the students, although Encinas previously said that the army witnessed their abduction without intervening.

“There is … information corroborated with emergency … telephone calls where allegedly six of the 43 disappeared students, [still] alive, were held during several days in what they call the old warehouse and from there were turned over to the colonel,” Encinas said August 26 during lengthy remarks about a truth commission report on the Ayotzinapa case.

“Allegedly the six students were alive for as many as four days after the events and were killed and disappeared on orders of [someone referred to as] ‘the colonel,’ allegedly the then-colonel José Rodríguez Pérez,” said the deputy minister, who earlier last month described the Ayotzinapa case as a “state crime.”

The Ayotzinapa truth commission report says that the army received an anonymous emergency call on September 20, 2014, during which the caller claimed that students were being held in a large concrete warehouse on the outskirts of Iguala.

It also says that on September 30, 2014, an unnamed colonel (believed to be Rodríguez) remarked that “they” – presumably soldiers – “will take care of cleaning everything up and that they had already taken care of the six students who had remained alive.”

The entry about the anonymous emergency call, the Associated Press reported, is followed by several pages of redacted material, but that section of the report concluded with the following: “As can be seen, obvious collusion existed between agents of the Mexican state with the criminal group Guerreros Unidos that tolerated, allowed and participated in events of violence and disappearance of the students, as well as the government’s attempt to hide the truth about the events.”

The federal government has rejected former president Enrique Peña Nieto administration’s so-called “historic truth” in the Ayotzinapa case, but a common thread between the truth commission report and that version of events is alleged collusion between Guerreros Unidos and authorities. However, the previous government rejected claims that the army was involved.

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Authorities make grisly discovery while apprehending dozens of undocumented migrants

by CF

The bodies of eight migrants were found Thursday, and 53 were apprehended trying to cross the border between Mexico and the United States, including 37 who were rescued while trying to cross the Rio Grande into Texas, authorities said.

Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Del Rio Sector responded to a large group of people near Eagle Pass, Texas, where they apprehended the migrants.

Thirty-seven of them were rescued as they tried to cross the river into the United States. During the rescue mission, authorities found eight dead migrants, CBP said.

Two were found by Mexican authorities and another six by American agents. Authorities have partnered with the Eagle Pass Fire Department and Maverick County Sheriff’s Office to search for other victims.

Across the river, Mexican authorities took into custody another 39 people.

The incident comes as migrants continue to approach the border in a dangerous fashion. In June, 53 migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer in San Antonio, highlighting the dangerous conditions many face as they try to cross the border illegally.

The dead included a 13-year-old and 14-year-old from Guatemala and two 16-year-olds from Mexico.

U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, whose district includes much of the border area, criticized President Biden over his failure to visit the border since taking office in 2021.

“53 DEAD in a truck, 53 in a river, countless dead in ditches, gullies and desert throughout #TX23…. how many more must die before Biden visits the border?” he tweeted.

As a form of protest, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered the busing of migrants to Washington, D.C., New York City and Chicago in an effort to highlight how overwhelmed Texas border communities have become.

As of Friday, more than 7,600 migrants have been transported to the three cities.

“President Biden’s inaction at our southern border continues putting the lives of Texans—and Americans—at risk and is overwhelming our communities,” Abbott said in a Wednesday statement as migrants were being taken to Chicago.

Government and indigenous people of Ecuador will close the first technical tables

QUITO, Sep 9 – The Government of Ecuador and the indigenous movement will close today the first five technical dialogue tables, which began almost two months ago and marked by little progress in terms of concrete agreements.

Throughout this week those debates were reinstated, with the desire to achieve the long-awaited results by the social sectors.

Subsidy focused on fuel, price control, production development, natural resources, public and private banking, are some of the issues subject to analysis and pending solution.

The day before, both delegations worked on the issues in question in order to find coincidences and reach consensus.

As of next Monday, it is planned to start the remaining tables, related to points such as education, health and national security.

The dialogue began on July 13, from the Act for Peace signed on June 30, which ended the 18-day national strike, in demands for social and economic improvements.

Both parties ratified the will to maintain the talks for the established 90 days, which concluded last October.

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Your Back to School To-Do List: Medical, Dental, Hearing and Vision Tests           

by Suzanne Potter

California News Service  

August 29, 2022 – As children head back to school in California, experts urged parents to bring them in for a physical and get their hearing, vision, and teeth checked as well.

A study from the Urban Institute found almost one in five parents delayed or skipped their children’s’ preventive visits during the pandemic, so now is the time to catch up.

Dr. Erin Shah, a pediatric dentist in the Bay Area, said dental problems are linked to absenteeism.

“Kids with dental problems are three times more likely to miss school than their peers without dental problems,” Shah explained. “Last time they tallied the amount of missed school hours, they tallied more than 51 million school hours lost to dental-related illness for school-age children each year.”

The American Optometric Association recommends children get their first comprehensive eye exam before their first birthday, again right before kindergarten, and if no issues are detected, every two years after. Experts also recommended children keep their device screens at least 30 inches away, and advise taking a break from the screen every 20 minutes, to train their eyes on something at least 20 feet away.

Dr. Donna O’Shea, national chief medical officer of population health for UnitedHealthcare, pointed out regular hearing tests are also a must.

“Like vision and dental, early detection of hearing issues is crucial for getting treatment as soon as possible,” O’Shea advised. “That’s really important because hearing loss can affect a child’s ability to develop speech, language, and social skills.”

O’Shea recommends young people follow the “60-60 rule,” which means only using earbuds or headphones for less than 60 minutes at no more than 60 percent of the player’s maximum volume.

In other news by Suzanne Potter:

Bill on Governor’s Desk to Raise Minimum Car Insurance Coverage      

Consumer advocates are urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign a bill now on his desk that would raise the amount auto insurance companies must cover in the event of a crash.

The “Protect California Drivers Act” would raise the mandatory minimum amount of liability insurance to $30,000 for a single injury or death, $60,000 if more than one person is injured or killed, and $15,000 to cover property damage.

Craig Peters, president of Consumer Attorneys of California, said the bill would double the current rates, which only require coverage of $15,000, $30,000 and $5,000 respectively.

“Fifteen-thousand today will barely cover the cost of an ambulance ride to the hospital,” he said, “and $5,000 will barely fix a minor dent in a car.”

He noted that when the current rates were set, back in 1967, they were intended to cover the cost of a two-week hospital stay or the replacement of the vehicle. Since every California driver is required to have insurance that meets state standards, the law would protect victims of car crashes from incurring massive debt.

The bill’s few opponents, including some insurers, said it’s the wrong time to be raising the cost of coverage. However, Peters said the bill was the result of negotiations between consumer groups and insurance industry representatives, and called the changes long overdue.

“California has lagged behind every other state in the union,” he said. “This will actually put us back into the middle of the pack.”

Senate Bill 1107 already has passed both houses of the California Legislature. If it becomes law, the new limits would take effect in 2025. They’d also increase ten years later – to $50,000 or $100,000 for injuries or deaths, and $25,000 for property damage.

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Netflix could stop the production of the series ‘The Crown’ after the death of the queen of England

by the El Reportero‘s news services

British screenwriter Peter Morgan, who authored the 2006 film ‘The Queen’ and is currently involved in producing the Netflix drama ‘The Crown’, said the series It was “a love letter” for Queen Elizabeth II, some media report. Morgan added that he hopes filming on the series will stop “out of respect” for the late queen.

The series ‘The Crown’, which portrays the life of Queen Elizabeth II since her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947, became very popular in 2016 when it was broadcast on the Netflix platform. The series has so far four seasons and now the fifth and sixth seasons are being filmed, which will cover the reign of Elizabeth II during the 90s and the 21st century. In the first two seasons, the role of the queen was played by Claire Foy, in the third and fourth by Olivia Colman and in the fifth and sixth – which have yet to be released – by Imelda Staunton.

Marciano Cantero, leader of the Argentine rock band Enanitos Verdes, dies

The musician had been admitted to intensive care for a kidney problem. Marciano Cantero, singer and leader of the Argentine rock band Enanitos Verdes, died this Thursday at the age of 62, confirmed the TN channel. The musician had been admitted to intensive care at a clinic in the City of Mendoza, where he was from, for a kidney problem.

The Argentine media reported that the bassist’s health situation worsened in mid-August, when Cantero returned with his band from a US tour.

Already in the clinic where he was hospitalized at the end of last month, they removed a kidney and part of his spleen. Since then, his condition has been delicate.

In 1979 Cantero formed the band Enanitos Verdes, achieving enormous popularity, not only in Argentina but also in Latin America.

Among the group’s most successful songs are ‘La Muralla Verde’; ‘I saw you on a train’; ‘Bolivian lament; ‘For the rest of your days’, ‘Butterflies’, among others.

With more than 40 years of experience, the Enanitos Verdes remained active, although without the repercussions of the glory days of ‘Rock Latino’, in the 90s, in which they stood out along with other Argentine groups such as Soda Stéreo, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, or Virus, whose music transcended to other countries on the continent.

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Come Celebrate With Us! ¡Vengan a celebrar con nosotros!

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Compiled by the El Reportero staff

El Grito, or “the Cry”, represents one of the most iconic Mexican civic celebrations. It recalls the moment in which father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the village of Dolores, rang the bell of the parish on the morning of Sept. 16, 1810 and called Mexicans to rise against the Spanish crown and fight for independence.

This year, San Francisco Civic Center Plaza will host a historic Grito in partnership with the Mexican Consulate, City and County of San Francisco, and community partnership, Thursday Sept. 15 from 4 to 7 p.m., with the Grito ceremony itself at 6 p.m. Please join us to celebrate this important day, enjoy traditional Mexican music and dance, and enjoy food from a local food truck as well.

Flamenco Guitarist Antonio Rey “FLAMENCO SIN FRONTERAS”

Flamenco Sin Fronteras with Flamenco Guitarist and 2020 Latin Grammy Award winner Antonio Rey. with guest Artists El Pepele Flamenco Singer, Carola Zertuche Flamenco Dancer, Jorge Liceaga Flamenco Guitarist and Diego Alvarez Percussionist.

Brava Theater Center, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 7 p.m. Cover $50 – $75.

Meet the artist: Fernando Martí

Fernando Martí is a printmaker, writer, community architect and housing activist based in San Francisco. Originally from Ecuador, he has been deeply involved in the City’s struggles for affordable housing, ecological justice and the reclamation of the commons since the mid-90s. His illustrations, etchings, linocuts, screenprints, public constructions and altar ofrendas reflect his formal training in urbanism, his roots in rural Ecuador and his current residence in the heart of Empire. His work is an attempt to reclaim ancestral traditions of place toward building a liberatory Latin futurism.

Find out how Martí became an artist, the stories in his creative work and more in our artist interview.

Join us for our ¡VIVA! artist spotlight featuring Fernando Martí discussing his artistic journey and work. Oct. 5, 7 p.m. Online.

 

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Lower your blood sugar and keep your glucose levels balanced with these foods

by Zoey Sky

When you have diabetes, you have to be careful about what you eat. But even if you don’t have this health condition, it’s important to know that blood sugar and glucose spikes are closely linked to your diet.

Some foods are more likely to cause glucose spikes than others. Even if you are in good health, monitoring spikes can do wonders for your overall health.

At the same time, following a balanced diet and eating certain superfoods like fiber-rich veggies can help regulate your mood, concentration and energy levels.

Carbohydrates in their many forms are turned into glucose as they’re digested, which then increases your blood sugar. Everyone is unique in how their body is affected by food, including your reaction to how quickly your glucose levels become elevated after eating carbs.

Specific food pairings may help keep your blood sugar levels stable. But there aren’t a lot of foods that can rapidly decrease glucose.

If you’re worried about your blood sugar, it’s better to monitor how certain meals affect your glucose levels. You can also use ingredients that help you feel more stable.

Below are foods that can help immediately lower your blood sugar if you’re experiencing a sugar spike.

Apple cider vinegar

Pairing apple cider vinegar (ACV), a kitchen staple, with your meals can help regulate glucose spikes and maintain healthy blood sugar levels.

ACV is often used in many home remedies for weight loss and blood sugar balance. Dr. Bindiya Gandhi, an integrative medicine doctor, explained that consuming ACV regularly can help improve glycemic control and oxidative stress in patients with diabetes and high cholesterol.

Since ACV is very sour, it can take some getting used to. Take at least one to two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar a day and dilute it in a glass of water to tone down the sourness.

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a spice that can also help keep your blood sugar levels in check.

Data from two studies suggest that cinnamon “modestly reported improving blood sugar in small patient sample sizes.” While it’s not the standard of care, you can use it moderately to boost your overall health.

Add cinnamon oatmeal for breakfast or add some Greek yogurt for a quick and healthy snack. You can also add cinnamon into a fiber-rich smoothie to keep your energy levels stable and avoid glucose spikes. (Related: 4 Health benefits of cinnamon, a powerful spice that can help reduce blood sugar levels.)

Fiber-rich foods

Generally, foods rich in fiber are good for you.

As a bonus, dietary fiber can also help support healthy blood sugar levels. Fiber helps you feel full and research also suggests that it can help balance your blood sugars.

Following a high-fiber diet can help improve “blood sugar balance and the concentration of lipoprotein or cholesterol in diabetic patients,” said Gandhi.

To meet your fiber goals, add fiber-rich superfoods like chia seeds, flaxseeds, legumes, lentils or leafy greens to your diet.

Fenugreek

Fenugreek is a flavorful herb that is delicious and clover-adjacent. Add fenugreek to various dishes to help balance blood sugar levels.

However, you should avoid fenugreek if you are lactating because it may affect your breastmilk supply.

Otherwise, fenugreek is “an excellent, easy addition” to a balanced diet. According to studies, a diet rich in fenugreek can help improve glucose tolerance, reduce urinary glucose and improve total cholesterol and triglyceride numbers.

High-protein foods

Including protein in a balanced diet will help fuel your muscles and energy levels. Whether you follow a plant-based or meat-eating diet, protein-rich foods can help maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Gandhi explained that diets rich in protein help lower blood sugar after you eat. It also balances your insulin much better in the long run.

Animal-based sources of protein include eggs and salmon. If you prefer plant-based sources, eat more chia seeds, hemp seeds, legumes, lentils and nuts.

Instead of eating a carb-heavy meal, include a serving of protein to keep your blood sugar in check. Adding animal protein to a meal helps “mute the glucose response the most,” said James.

For your next protein-rich meal, add chicken to a salad sandwich to produce a lower glucose response than just eating a salad sandwich. Alternatively, you can add wild salmon to a grain bowl to mute the grain bowl’s glycemic spike.

 

 

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Underpopulation is the coming global crisis no one is talking about

Phil Lawler

Lifesite

 

Sep 8, 2022 – Right now the world’s population is at an all-time high, allowing the mythmakers to continue peddling fear about overpopulation. But the ominous trend is easy to spot, for anyone willing to see the signs of the times.

Sometimes the most important news stories slip past the notice of the mainstream media. Such as this utterly unprecedented development:

For the first time in world history, there are now more living human beings above the age of 65 than below the age of 5.

Think about that: There are more senior citizens than little children in the world. The cohort of grandparents outnumbers the cohort of grandchildren.

This demographic shift is most dramatic in the developed countries, where fertility rates have been slipping steadily for years, while medical advances enable the elderly to live longer. In most European countries, birth rates are well below the replacement level. In the U.S., the overall population would be falling, were it not for the enormous flow of immigrants.

The trend is not likely to reverse itself any time soon. In the U.S., the average age at which women marry has jumped from 25 to 28 since 2000. Which means that the average bride can hear her biological clock ticking almost as soon as she walks down the aisle. And if she and her husband make the popular decision to “postpone pregnancy” for a while as they settle into married life, her fertility will soon be in decline.

In the world’s two most populous countries, China and India, there is another reason to expect a birth dearth. After decades of aggressive family-planning measures, which discouraged the birth of female babies (and encouraged sex-selection abortion), these countries have a disproportionate number of young men – who, according to the natural order of things, will not have babies.

So the doomsday prophets who warned against the dire consequences of overpopulation were wrong. Paul Ehrlich, the celebrated author of “The Population Bomb,” who predicted worldwide famines in the 1970s “in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now,” was wrong. Even Pope Paul VI, insofar as he incorporated worries about overpopulation into Humanae Vitae, was wrong. The problem that the world must soon face is underpopulation.

(And my late friend, Julian Simon, who made a devastating critique of Ehrlich’s work in his book “The Ultimate Resource,” was right: The most important factor contributing to economic progress, and therefore to the fight against poverty, is human creativity, which tends naturally to increase when there are more humans around to be creative.)

The world’s overall population has risen throughout recorded history, but not at a consistent pace. Wars, famines, and diseases have caused temporary declines. But today’s demographic decline is different, because when the elderly outnumber the young, there is no way to avoid a massive contraction.

Even if today’s schoolchildren have large families – which they are already being told they should not do, by a generation of teachers steeped in “overpopulation” propaganda – they are unlikely to produce enough children to offset the inevitable loss of the dying Baby Boomers.

Meanwhile, those young people will be carrying the heavy burden of care for their aging relatives. And that burden – not to mention the staggering debt that countries like the U.S. have passed along to the rising generation – will handicap their ability to produce new goods and services.

So the demographic contraction will be accompanied by an economic contraction – which may cause many young parents of the next generation to decide they cannot afford more children – which would add still further to the double-barreled implosion.

Right now the world’s population is at an all-time high, allowing the mythmakers to continue peddling fear about overpopulation. But the ominous trend is easy to spot, for anyone willing to see the signs of the times.

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Remembering Queen Elizabeth II’s state visits to Mexico

The late monarch visited in 1975 and 1983

 

by Mexico News Daily

 

“Dressed in a peacock blue and gray print dress and matching hat, the queen was greeted by local dignitaries and members of the British community,” read a United Press International account of Queen Elizabeth II’s visit to Puerto Vallarta in 1983.

The monarch, who died today at age 96 at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, counted two journeys to Mexico among the many international state visits she made during her 70-year reign, the longest ever by a British monarch.

On that visit in the eighties, she stuck to the Pacific Coast as she visited Acapulco in the state of Guerrero, Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán, Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco and La Paz in Baja California Sur from Feb. 17–25.

Her first visit was in 1975, when she saw Mexico City, Guanajuato, Oaxaca, Yucatán and Veracruz in just a few days, from February 24 through March 1. That first whirlwind journey across Mexico was more than two decades after she had been crowned on June 2, 1953.

When she finally did visit Mexico, accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Mexico’s president was Luis Echeverría Álvarez. Although relations between Mexico and the United Kingdom dated back to the early 19th century, this marked the first official visit of a British monarch to Mexican lands.

The royal couple arrived on the 412-foot Royal Yacht Britannia to Cozumel, where they barely set foot on soil: immediately after leaving the yacht, they boarded a plane to Mexico City. There, the royals were received by Echeverría and his wife, María Zuno Arce. The visit coincided with Día de la Bandera (or Flag Day), so children filled the capital’s zócalo with rhythmic boards, gymnastics demonstrations, choirs and colorful pom-poms to welcome the royals.

That celebration ended with the president and his wife accompanying the monarchs on a tour of the city aboard an open car, with the streets full of cheering observers. Afterward, the royal couple stayed a couple of days at the Camino Real hotel, taking time to visit Echeverría at his private residence in San Jerónimo, south of the city.

The next leg of the trip included a train ride to Guanajuato city, where the royals toured the Pípila independence monument, the Juárez Theater, the University of Guanajuato, the Alhóndiga de Granaditas (a museum in a former grain storehouse that was an important site in Mexico’s fight for independence) and the local market, where they ate tlacoyos — a snack made of thick corn dough and filled with fava bean paste and other goodies.

In Oaxaca city, the monarchs visited loom halls and the handicrafts market and bought various items — paying with pounds sterling. They also visited the archaeological site of Monte Albán. At night, the celebration of Oaxaca’s traditional La Guelaguetza.

Their next stop was Mérida, where a rain of confetti greeted the queen, along with a song whose lyrics said, “Queen of queens, when you pass by, all the flowers give off their fragrance,” performed by the Orquesta Típica Yucalpetén. At one point, a strong wind nearly blew her hat off and lifted her skirt.

“Jovial, simple, smiling, much more beautiful than her photographs” was how the Diario de Yucatán newspaper described the 48-year-old queen.

The next day, near Yucatán’s north coast in Tizimín, she inaugurated the La Reina Zoo (The Queen’s Zoo). There, 2,000 children sang part of the English hymn “Land of Hope and Glory,” nearly moving the queen to tears. “It is the best gift I have received from Yucatán,” she reportedly told the governor.

During her stay of 23 hours and 50 minutes in Yucatán, she wore four dresses, white gloves, a hat, diamond and emerald earrings, pendants, a three-strand pearl necklace and white shoes, and of course accessorized with her handbag. Upon departing for Veracruz, she wore a yellow and orange dress — and there reportedly was 10 liters of ice cream in the royals’ luggage.

When the royal couple returned in 1983, they arrived on a Royal Air Force aircraft to Acapulco, where they were greeted by President Miguel de la Madrid.

They toured the coast and then visited the municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas, where they met with Governor Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Bernardo Sepulveda. The royal party traveled up the coast on the Britannia, upon which Sepulveda and his British counterpart, Francis Pym, held three days of talks, reportedly discussing the Falkland Islands, oil prices and various conflicts in Central America.

During her tour of Puerto Vallarta, the 56-year-old queen was taken to a senior home amid lush vegetation outside the city, where she was serenaded by a chorale group of 22 elderly women in long, red gowns said to be the color of the bougainvillea flower.

After sailing to La Paz, the royal couple visited Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Our Lady of Peace cathedral, and the islands Jacques Cousteau and Espírito Santo.

And that was it. The queen’s trip continued on to the United States and Canada, but she never returned to Mexico.

President López Obrador responded to announcements of the queen’s death with a tweet on Thursday.

“I send my condolences to the people of the United Kingdom on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, British monarch and ruler of 14 independent states. In the same way, I extend them to her family, friends and members of the Royal Household.”

With reports from Infobae, Diario de Yucatan and UPI.

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NOTICE OF NOMINEES ELECTION FOR PUBLIC OFFICE in the Town of Woodside Nov. 8, 2022

TOWN OF
WOODSIDE
2955 WOODSIDE ROAD
WOODSIDE,
CA 94062
NOTICE OF NOMINEES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following persons have been nominated for the offices appointed to be filled at the General and Special Municipal Elections to be held in the Town of Woodside on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.
District 2
Brian Dombkowski Councilman
Steve Lubin Councilman
Elizabeth Kaske Councilmember
District 3
Richard “Dick” Brown Councilman
District 5
Paul Goeld Councilor
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