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José Pablo Moncayo: The story of the illustrious Mexican composer

Learn the complete story of José Pablo Moncayo, author of the most famous Huapango in Mexico, considered a second national anthem

 

Shared/by Mexico Desconocido

 

José Pablo Moncayo is one of the most renowned Mexican composers of all time; His best-known work “El Huapango de Moncayo” is one of the famous classics of Mexican music. Check out his full story below.

The famous Mexican composer and conductor, José Pablo Moncayo, is an icon of Mexican musical nationalism of the 20th century. The main inspiration for his work was nature and it is reflected in the work carried out by the artist between 1931 and 1958.

Moncayo’s repertoire is broad and virtuous, ranging from pieces for piano, singing, trios and instrumental duets, quintets, sextets, chamber orchestra, ballet suite, choral opera, film music and symphony orchestra.

Learn about his life and what you can find of his work at the Fonoteca Nacional. Also know what his most important pieces were and everything about the Huapango de Moncayo, a pinnacle work that became a Mexican icon.

The story of José Pablo Moncayo, Mexican composer

José Pablo Moncayo García was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco on June 29, 1912 and died in Mexico City on July 16, 1958.

His first experience with music came when his father, a carpenter, was paid with a harpsichord. José Pablo Moncayo was six years old when his family moved to Mexico City and he began his musical life taking piano lessons with maestro Eduardo Hernández Moncada (iconic musician of the post-revolutionary years in Mexico) and entered the National Conservatory of Music at the age 17 in 1929.

Su primera experiencia con la música llegó cuando a su padre, carpintero, le pagaron con un clavecín. José Pablo Moncayo tenía seis años cuando su familia se mudó a la Ciudad de México y comenzó su vida musical tomando clases de piano con el maestro Eduardo Hernández Moncada (icónico músico de los años posrevolucionarios en México) y entró al Conservatorio Nacional de Música a la edad de 17 años en 1929.

Moncayo en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música

Durante esta etapa de su juventud, José Pablo Moncayo trabajó como pianista de jazz en cafés y acompañante en la radio para solventar sus estudios y contribuir a la economía familiar.

En su paso por el Conservatorio Nacional de Música, Moncayo fue discípulo de grandes maestros además de Hernández Moncada. Tuvo a Salvador Novo y Carlos Pellicer Cámara como profesores de literatura, también fue alumno de José Rolón; quien había recibido la formación de la pedagoga musical más importante de todos los tiempos: Nadia Boulanger.

Como profesor de Armonía, contrapunto y fuga tuvo al maestro Paul Dukas, autor de Aprendiz de Brujo; la mítica pieza que Disney utiliza en Fantasía 2000.

José Pablo Moncayo estuvo bajo la tutela del maestro Carlos Chávez, quien fue compositor, director de orquesta, profesor y periodista mexicano, además de ser el fundador de la Orquesta Sinfónica de México.

Se dice que esta “clase de creación musical” se convirtió en un “taller de composición”, donde los alumnos del maestro Chávez se convirtieron en sus colegas. Según la historia, estas clases iniciaron alrededor de 1930 y en 1931, Moncayo se incorporaría a la Orquesta Sinfónica de México como pianista y percusionista.

A partir de 1936, José Pablo Moncayo asumiría 5 veces el papel de director de la Orquesta Sinfónica de México, además de haber sido subdirector y director artístico de la misma.

Los Cuatro, el grupo del movimiento musical nacionalista

La historia dice que fue el maestro Carlos Chávez el responsable de unir a José Pablo Moncayo con sus contemporáneos Daniel Ayala, Salvador Contreras y Blas Galindo, creando en 1935 una agrupación llamada “Los Cuatro”; que se encargó de llevar sus composiciones con espíritu nacionalista a la relevancia internacional, especialmente en suramérica.

mexicodesconocido.com.mx De izquierda a derecha: Contreras, Ayala, Moncayo y Galindo.

En 1942 fue becado por el Instituto Berkshire y a su regreso asumió la dirección de la Orquesta Sinfónica de México, que luego se llamaría Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. También fue director de la Orquesta del Conservatorio.

A lo largo de su vida y carrera, Moncayo fue profesor de composición y dirección en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música, además de otras asignaturas en la Escuela Superior Nocturna de Música y la Escuela de Iniciación Artística.

El maestro José Pablo Moncayo falleció un 16 de junio de 1958 a la edad de 46 años. Sus restos fueron depositados en la Rotonda de las Personas Ilustres el 22 de noviembre del 2012.

Obras cúmbres de José Pablo Moncayo

Moncayo ahondó en infinidad de expresiones musicales y su obra es extensa. Estas son sus piezas más destacadas:

Sonata para violín y piano, Sonata para viola y piano, Amatzinac (flauta y cuerdas), Sonata para violín y Violonchelo, Trío para flauta, violín y piano; el famosísimo Huapango de Moncayo, un poema sinfónico.

También están La Mulata de Córdoba, Muros Verdes, Sinfonía, Sinfonietta, Cumbres, Tierra de temporal, Bosques y la obra Tierra, su único ballet.

En sus últimos días, el maestro José Pablo Moncayo dejó inconcluso un concierto para piano y orquesta dedicado a su esposa.

¡Conoce la historia de la pieza más famosa de José Pablo Moncayo aquí!

José Pablo Moncayo en la Fonoteca Nacional

El Huapango de Moncayo, una de las obras del movimiento musical nacionalista más reconocidas de la historia y que se convirtió en un símbolo de nuestro país, puede ser apreciado en la Fonoteca Nacional en la ejecución de orquestas nacionales e internacionales; como la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional bajo la dirección del maestro Carlos Chavez o la Orquesta Filarmónica de Rotterdam.

La Casa de los Sonidos de México puedes encontrar transmisiones radiofónicas de la Orquesta de la Universidad interpretando obras de Moncayo, así como las piezas Bosques, Cumbres, Muros Verdes y Tierra Temporal.

Además puedes encontrar piezas que se consideran inéditas como la canción para coro llamada La Canción del Mar y Cuento de la Potranca, creada para la película mexicana Raíces de Benito Alazraki, filme de corte indigenista basado en el libro de cuentos El Diosero, de Francisco Rojas.

Solving the Tanking Economy

by Jon Rappoport

 

Subscribe to my substack. As I keep saying, it costs less than one breakfast a month at an old diner off the highway in 1990.

Here is the background for the podcast:

No more excuses for the Biden administration.

They—and many Republicans—are way past the point of “making mistakes.” They’re forcing the economy to tank.

That’s what they want.

You can’t take over an economy that’s thriving and lifting most boats. You have to drive it down, radically weaken its supports—and then step in, blame various scapegoats, and claim there is no way out of the crisis unless the government intervenes and enacts “a new deal.”

That new deal will involve some version of fixing prices of goods, wage “supports” and freezes, and control of key industries.

That’s where this is going. That’s the plan.

Climate change non-science is being deployed as one of the justifications—and there is a salad of verbiage about “a transition to a green economy.”

Which is, of course, baloney, because right now there are no alternative options for energy that can supplant oil.

Instead, poverty will deepen. Drastically.

The suicidal policies of this administration needed a man in the Oval Office who was so sold out, so mentally compromised, he could be induced to go along with the horror show.

Any person who can’t see that is whistling in the dark and holding a gun to his own head and telling himself a fairy tale about saving the planet.

And I’ve noticed that certain alternative news sites, who would ordinarily be blowing the trumpet for a transition to greenness, have recently shut up about it.

They see the handwriting on the wall. It’s not just theory anymore. The criminals in Washington are actually DOING it, and without a safety net in the form of viable non-oil energy. They have no safety net.

They intend to impose low, lower, and lowest energy production and energy use quotas on everybody. That’s the technocratic foundation for the future, and the future is sitting there in front of us now.

“Well, you see, while we bring solar and wind on line to replace oil, we’ll have to portion out available sources of energy…”

This is all about control of society at the top—consolidated and intensified. Call it socialism. Call it anything you want to. Labels don’t matter. The people who want tyranny and can impose it are killers.

They’ve been with us since people lived in caves. Now they believe they have the means to control, not hundreds or thousands, but millions and billions of humans.

Climate change, open borders, critical race theory, transgenderism, gun control, censorship, inflation, COVID fraud, toxic vaccines—these “inserts” all function to drastically weaken and cripple the nation and also serve as massive distractions while the sociopaths harden their power.

ENERGY is their number one target. Put a chokehold on energy and money and you run the world.

Every conceivable strategy to decentralize those two powers will throw a monkey wrench into their plan.

—In the podcast, I’ll be talking about solutions that could decentralize those powers.

Then I’ll take up the current proposal for a debate about the existence of the “COVID virus,” and show how one side of that debate has a massive misconception about real science.

I’ll explain how science should be done; and why the terms of the debate are much simpler than they imagine.

I’ve been around the block on this basic issue a few hundred times in the last 20 years; and I’ve been through all the whys and wherefores.

I’ve explored other versions of the debate, and I’ve seen the holes in the ways the debates have been framed.

I’ll lay it all out very clearly. I’ll explain what a real debate would look like.

Join me on the podcast!

— Jon Rappoport is The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.

Solving the tanking economy

by Jon Rappoport

 

Subscribe to my substack. As I keep saying, it costs less than one breakfast a month at an old diner off the highway in 1990.

Here is the background for the podcast:

No more excuses for the Biden administration.

They—and many Republicans—are way past the point of “making mistakes.” They’re forcing the economy to tank.

That’s what they want.

You can’t take over an economy that’s thriving and lifting most boats. You have to drive it down, radically weaken its supports—and then step in, blame various scapegoats, and claim there is no way out of the crisis unless the government intervenes and enacts “a new deal.”

That new deal will involve some version of fixing prices of goods, wage “supports” and freezes, and control of key industries.

That’s where this is going. That’s the plan.

Climate change non-science is being deployed as one of the justifications—and there is a salad of verbiage about “a transition to a green economy.”

Which is, of course, baloney, because right now there are no alternative options for energy that can supplant oil.

Instead, poverty will deepen. Drastically.

The suicidal policies of this administration needed a man in the Oval Office who was so sold out, so mentally compromised, he could be induced to go along with the horror show.

Any person who can’t see that is whistling in the dark and holding a gun to his own head and telling himself a fairy tale about saving the planet.

And I’ve noticed that certain alternative news sites, who would ordinarily be blowing the trumpet for a transition to greenness, have recently shut up about it.

They see the handwriting on the wall. It’s not just theory anymore. The criminals in Washington are actually DOING it, and without a safety net in the form of viable non-oil energy. They have no safety net.

They intend to impose low, lower, and lowest energy production and energy use quotas on everybody. That’s the technocratic foundation for the future, and the future is sitting there in front of us now.

“Well, you see, while we bring solar and wind on line to replace oil, we’ll have to portion out available sources of energy…”

This is all about control of society at the top—consolidated and intensified. Call it socialism. Call it anything you want to. Labels don’t matter. The people who want tyranny and can impose it are killers.

They’ve been with us since people lived in caves. Now they believe they have the means to control, not hundreds or thousands, but millions and billions of humans.

Climate change, open borders, critical race theory, transgenderism, gun control, censorship, inflation, COVID fraud, toxic vaccines—these “inserts” all function to drastically weaken and cripple the nation and also serve as massive distractions while the sociopaths harden their power.

ENERGY is their number one target. Put a chokehold on energy and money and you run the world.

Every conceivable strategy to decentralize those two powers will throw a monkey wrench into their plan.

—In the podcast, I’ll be talking about solutions that could decentralize those powers.

Then I’ll take up the current proposal for a debate about the existence of the “COVID virus,” and show how one side of that debate has a massive misconception about real science.

I’ll explain how science should be done; and why the terms of the debate are much simpler than they imagine.

I’ve been around the block on this basic issue a few hundred times in the last 20 years; and I’ve been through all the whys and wherefores.

I’ve explored other versions of the debate, and I’ve seen the holes in the ways the debates have been framed.

I’ll lay it all out very clearly. I’ll explain what a real debate would look like.

Join me on the podcast!

— Jon Rappoport is The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe.

Study: Quercetin offers key benefits for your heart and immune system

by Zoey Sky

 

07/26/2022 – Quercetin is a flavonoid and plant pigment found in brightly-colored fruits and veggies. Many studies continue to prove its ability to help prevent heart disease and promote cardiovascular health.

Extensive population studies have revealed that people with diets rich in quercetin have low cholesterol levels and decreased incidence of heart disease and death.

Research has also shown that quercetin doesn’t just boost heart health, it also helps relieve allergies and enhances immune function.

Quercetin offers cardiovascular benefits

Quercetin is a potent antioxidant that helps reduce oxidative stress and inflammation, both of which are linked to heart disease. According to research, quercetin also helps reduce damage from experimentally-induced heart attacks.

Additionally, diets high in quercetin have been shown to protect against harmful LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol by decreasing its concentration in the blood. This, in turn, reduces the risk of heart attack and stroke because it prevents the buildup of atherosclerotic plaque in arteries.

Quercetin also helps the cardiovascular system by improving circulation and supporting healthy blood pressure. A clinical study found that taking 200 mg of quercetin every day enhances the production of beneficial nitric oxide — a chemical that relaxes blood vessels — and promotes endothelial cell function.

Quercetin boosts your immune system

Quercetin protects plants against damage from disease, harsh temperatures and chemical toxins. In studies, this translates to quercetin having potential anti-allergy, antiviral and immune-stabilizing abilities.

Quercetin can help prevent the depletion of antioxidants and protect the lungs during times of stress. It also helps prevent the spread of viruses. According to research, quercetin can significantly increase the respiratory antioxidant defense system in mice exposed to the H1N1 flu virus.

Studies have also revealed that quercetin helps block viral replication, thus reducing the ability of viruses to infect healthy cells.

Additionally, quercetin was found to boost immune defenses by helping increase the production of glutathione, the body’s master antioxidant and a crucial immune system component.

Data also suggests that quercetin may help prolong life. In a 2010 review of studies published in the journal Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, the authors wrote that quercetin could activate SIRT1, the “anti-aging” gene.

Quercetin helps reduce allergic reactions

Modern research is exploring the ability of quercetin to fight allergies.

Quercetin is a natural antihistamine and can help reduce allergic reactions by decreasing the activation of mast cells that release histamine and other inflammatory signals linked to allergies, asthma and skin conditions. This is why integrative healthcare providers often recommend quercetin to relieve hives, a runny nose, sinus congestion, sneezing, watery eyes and other cold and allergy symptoms.

Because of quercetin’s impressive ability to inhibit mast cells, researchers are investigating its potential to block fatal anaphylactic reactions like those caused by peanut allergies.

Quercetin is also a potential treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, thanks to its ability to relax constricted airway muscles.

Boost your overall health with quercetin-rich superfoods

You can take supplemental quercetin as pills, capsules or in liposomal form. While there is no recommended daily amount of quercetin, many natural healers advise dosages of 500 mg taken twice daily.

Another option is to follow a healthy diet and eat lots of foods rich in quercetin like fresh, organic fruits and veggies. Foods rich in quercetin include unpeeled apples. One ripe apple contains about 50 mg of quercetin.

Other superfoods that contain quercetin include green tea, red onions, red and purple grapes and red wine. Quercetin is also found in blackberries, blueberries, broccoli, citrus fruits, dark cherries, raspberries and tomatoes.

Consume foods rich in quercetin like apples and grapes or take quercetin supplements to boost your heart health and immunity and reduce allergic reactions. Foods.news.

Jalisco cartel now has presence in 28 states: US Congress

Only four states remain free of the ‘intensely expansionist’ criminal organization

 

by México News Daily

 

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) operates in Mexico City and 27 states, and is the dominant criminal organization in six states, according to a report by the United States Congressional Research Service (CRS).

A map published in the report shows that Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango and Tlaxcala are the only states where the CJNG doesn’t have a presence. It also shows that the CJNG is the dominant criminal force in its home state of Jalisco as well as Nayarit, Colima, Guerrero, México state and Veracruz.

Entitled “Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations,” the report said the CJNG is an “extremely powerful cartel” with a “reputation for extreme and intimidating violence.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “considers the CJNG a top U.S. threat and Mexico’s best-armed criminal group,” the CRS said, noting that U.S. authorities have offered a US $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, “who is believed to be hiding in the mountains of Jalisco, Michoacán, and Colima.”

Informed by media reports, the CRS report acknowledged that, according to some analysts, the CJNG has drug trafficking operations throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

“The CJNG built its dominance internationally first through extending its presence through a rapid expansion inside Mexico,” it said.

“In 2016, many analysts maintained the CJNG controlled a territory equivalent to almost half of Mexico. The group has battled Los Zetas and Gulf Cartel factions in Tabasco, Veracruz, and Guanajuato, as well as the Sinaloa … [Cartel] in the Baja Peninsula and Chihuahua. The CJNG’s ambitious expansion campaign was characterized by high levels of violence, particularly in Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana.”

The CRS also said that the CJNG has consolidated “important components of the global narcotics supply chain” through its battle to dominate key ports on both the Pacific and Gulf coasts.

“In particular, the CJNG maintains reported control over the ports of Veracruz, Manzanillo, and Lázaro Cárdenas, which has given the group access to precursor chemicals that flow into Mexico from China and other parts of Latin America,” the report said.

“As a result, according to some analysts, the CJNG has pursued an aggressive growth strategy underwritten by U.S. demand for Mexican methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl. … Despite leadership losses, the CJNG has extended its geographic reach and maintained its own cohesion while exploiting the infighting among factions of the Sinaloa organization.”

The CRS described the cartel as “intensely expansionist” and acknowledged its “willingness” to attack government officials, such as Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch.

The report also profiled eight other major Mexican criminal groups, including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel and La Familia Michoacana.

Once headed by imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the Sinaloa Cartel is the “the Mexican crime organization with the largest international footprint,” CRS said. Its report cited a DEA estimate that the cartel was active in 15 of 32 Mexican entities in 2020 and noted that its leaders have successfully corrupted public officials from the local to the national level.

The report also said that many lawmakers in the current U.S. Congress are concerned about cartel-related violence in Mexico and its impact on border security.

“Some members have been evaluating the amounts and effectiveness of U.S. counternarcotics and security assistance to Mexico and assessing the overall U.S.-Mexico security relationship. Additional concerns focus on how … [cartel]-related violence has imperiled some licit economic sectors, negatively affected U.S.-Mexico trade, and contributed to the internal displacement and outmigration of Mexican citizens,” it said.

“Congress has engaged regularly with these issues, holding hearings, appropriating funds to support Mexico’s anti-crime efforts, and issuing directives and reporting requirements to U.S. agencies.”

Ancient rulers’ ashes may have been used in the Mayan ballgame

Archaeologists hypothesize that remains of three 8th century rulers were used to vulcanize them

 

by the El Reportero‘s wire services

 

A discovery at an archaeological site in Chiapas has led a researcher to conclude that the ashes of ancient Mayan rulers aided the production of rubber balls that were used in the Mayan ballgame.

In 2020, over 400 vessels containing ashes, charcoal, rubber and roots were found in a pre-Hispanic crypt within the Temple of the Sun at the Toniná archaeological site near the town of Ocosingo.

In a statement published Monday, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) set out a hypothesis based on that discovery that was developed by INAH researcher Juan Yadeun Angulo, who has led research and conservation projects at Toniná for over four decades.

According to Yadeun’s hypothesis, it’s probable that the cadavers of at least three eighth-century Mayan rulers – two men and one woman – were reduced to ashes in order to use them during the production of rubber balls.

A “microscopic analysis” of the organic material contained in the vessels indicated that “specialized persons, possibly priests” cremated bodies of high-ranking members of society, INAH said. Yadeun has concluded that the sulfur of the ashes was used to vulcanize, or harden, the rubber used to make the ballgame balls.

Inscriptions on sculptures that delimit a Toniná ball court led the researcher to believe that sulfur in the ashes of the rulers Wak Chan Káhk´, Aj Kololte’ and Káwiil Kaan were used to vulcanize rubber. The first two male rulers died in the second half of the 8th century while the latter female passed away in the first half of the same century.

“It’s enlightening to know that the Mayans sought to turn the bodies of their rulers into a living force,” Yadeun said, referring to the rubber balls that ballgame players moved around a ball court with their hips and thighs.

“… Just as Egyptians tried to preserve bodies, we know here they were transformed in another way,” he said.

“… We have evidence they were incorporated into balls, which were gigantic during the classic period. … The three central discs of the [ballgame] court say that these … [rulers] came back to life 260 days later. They came out of the death cave,” Yadeun said.

Ancient rulers’ ashes may have been used in the Mayan ballgame

Archaeologists hypothesize that remains of three 8th century rulers were used to vulcanize them

 

by the El Reportero‘s wire services

 

A discovery at an archaeological site in Chiapas has led a researcher to conclude that the ashes of ancient Mayan rulers aided the production of rubber balls that were used in the Mayan ballgame.

In 2020, over 400 vessels containing ashes, charcoal, rubber and roots were found in a pre-Hispanic crypt within the Temple of the Sun at the Toniná archaeological site near the town of Ocosingo.

In a statement published Monday, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) set out a hypothesis based on that discovery that was developed by INAH researcher Juan Yadeun Angulo, who has led research and conservation projects at Toniná for over four decades.

According to Yadeun’s hypothesis, it’s probable that the cadavers of at least three eighth-century Mayan rulers – two men and one woman – were reduced to ashes in order to use them during the production of rubber balls.

A “microscopic analysis” of the organic material contained in the vessels indicated that “specialized persons, possibly priests” cremated bodies of high-ranking members of society, INAH said. Yadeun has concluded that the sulfur of the ashes was used to vulcanize, or harden, the rubber used to make the ballgame balls.

Inscriptions on sculptures that delimit a Toniná ball court led the researcher to believe that sulfur in the ashes of the rulers Wak Chan Káhk´, Aj Kololte’ and Káwiil Kaan were used to vulcanize rubber. The first two male rulers died in the second half of the 8th century while the latter female passed away in the first half of the same century.

“It’s enlightening to know that the Mayans sought to turn the bodies of their rulers into a living force,” Yadeun said, referring to the rubber balls that ballgame players moved around a ball court with their hips and thighs.

“… Just as Egyptians tried to preserve bodies, we know here they were transformed in another way,” he said.

“… We have evidence they were incorporated into balls, which were gigantic during the classic period. … The three central discs of the [ballgame] court say that these … [rulers] came back to life 260 days later. They came out of the death cave,” Yadeun said.

A tale of three cities – how Bakersfield, Columbus and Houston tackled homelessness

by Jenny Manrique

 

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, around half a million individuals nationwide are currently experiencing homelessness. Yet three cities have been able to make dramatic gains in tackling the problem with important lessons for the rest of the country.

Among these lessons: housing and homelessness are community issues requiring community solutions.

In March, 2020 the city of Bakersfield, California achieved “functional zero” chronic homelessness, while Houston, Texas placed more than 25,000 people in permanent housing, resulting in a 64 percent decrease in homelessness. And in 2018, Columbus, Ohio had successfully housed 70 percent of its homeless population.

During a July 22nd Ethnic Media Services briefing, front line workers in all three cities explained the strategies that led to their success.

“We accomplished this because we changed our mindset and our beliefs,” said Mary Scott, client services director at Open Door Network in Bakersfield. “We now believe homelessness is not an individual issue. Homelessness is a community issue.”

With that new mindset, organizations, government agencies, landlords, and homeless residents were able to partner to create support services and permanent housing for the community, Scott explained.

Work began with a comprehensive register of every person in the county experiencing homelessness, with names listed under the following categories: chronically homeless, veterans, youth, elderly, and families.

“We with the different organizations and go one by one to each person, to find out what the service provider is providing, what their status is, and what are the barriers,” Scott said.

Housing vouchers, low-income units, landlords working with housing locators, and the ‘Milestone project’ – which is refurbishing motels and turning them into permanent housing units – are all part of the strategy.

“Some of our continued challenges are the lack of affordable housing: we have a 2 percent vacancy rate, and we identified 1,603 unduplicated homeless individuals in our 2022 headcount,” she continued. “It is also a struggle finding landlords and property owners who are willing to rent to our clients who have little to no income.”

Evictions are another challenge. In Columbus, Ohio, addressing the homeless crisis meant “getting ahead” of eviction filings.

“We are bringing more landlords on board, not to sell them on the tenants themselves, but on the support services that we have in place to keep people housed,” said Marcus J. Salter, housing stability specialist at the Community Mediation Services of Central Ohio.

His agency is one of several that form the Homeless Prevention Network, a collaboration of housing providers and mental health agencies created after the pandemic to connect homeless residents to support services.

“I’ve heard landlords say, ‘We had a tenant here, a situation happened, and we didn’t know who to contact.’ We can make those support services more accessible,” said Salter.

Currently, the Homeless Prevention Network is working to reduce demand at the city’s five single adult centers and two family shelters, all of which are filled to capacity, by moving people into more permanent housing.

According to Scott, the network “diverted 311 people away from entering shelters” between January and March of this year, with a total of “2,035 long-term homeless residents served by permanent supportive housing.”

Houston took a similar approach, moving 25,000 people from the streets and into permanent housing over the past decade. Back in 2012, the nation’s fourth most populous city had the sixth largest homeless population in the country, with service providers operating in silos.

“We were not looking at our data to make sure that the decisions we were making were in line with what the community needed. And our recidivism was very high,” said Ana Rausch, vice president of program operations at the Houston Coalition for the Homeless, an umbrella organization that brings together more than 100 nonprofits and local government agencies.

“Our partners and funders all came together to identify the common goals for the homeless response system.”

The results: since 2011, the city has seen a 63 percent decrease in overall homelessness, a 69 percent decrease in chronic homelessness, and an 82 percent decline in family homelessness. Veteran homelessness ended in 2015, and in the current year, of the 3,124 individuals experiencing homelessness, 1,622 are now residing in a shelter.

And according to Rausch, 95 percent of individuals supported stay housed.

“We use the Housing First model: we take someone from the streets and we put them into a place and then once they feel safe, having a roof over their head and food in their belly, then they can begin to focus on the issues that might have led to them becoming homeless,” she noted.

Harris County, where Houston is located, also managed to decommission 57 homeless encampments, thanks in part to additional COVID resources from the federal government, with individuals being moved into permanent housing.

“We had a lot of market-rate units,” said Rausch, “but it’s gotten to the point where there’s really not many vacancies left.”

California now holds the dubious distinction of having the nation’s highest homeless population, tallied at an eye-popping 60,000 people.

“And that’s not because they’re mentally ill, on drugs, or because they’re criminals,” said Matthew Lewis, director of communications at California Yimby, a statewide housing policy organization. “It’s because they lost their homes.”

YIMBY is the acronym for Yes In My Backyard and refers to those who support greater housing developments in their own neighborhoods.

Despite California’s continued economic growth – if it were a nation, California would rank as the world’s fifth largest economy – zoning law restrictions and a legacy of redlining, which prohibited minorities including Asians, Latinos and African Americans from purchasing homes in certain neighborhoods, are impeding the construction of affordable, multifamily housing.

California Yimby works at the state level to try to reform the legislative framework around housing, which, according to Lewis, stands in the way of serious attempts to address the homeless challenge.

“The legacy of segregation lives on in these neighborhoods and our cities have made it virtually impossible to add housing at all ends of the income spectrum,” he said. “We’re trying to reverse those historic mistakes.”

Jalisco cartel now has presence in 28 states: US Congress

Only four states remain free of the ‘intensely expansionist’ criminal organization

 

by México News Daily

 

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) operates in Mexico City and 27 states, and is the dominant criminal organization in six states, according to a report by the United States Congressional Research Service (CRS).

A map published in the report shows that Sonora, Sinaloa, Durango and Tlaxcala are the only states where the CJNG doesn’t have a presence. It also shows that the CJNG is the dominant criminal force in its home state of Jalisco as well as Nayarit, Colima, Guerrero, México state and Veracruz.

Entitled “Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations,” the report said the CJNG is an “extremely powerful cartel” with a “reputation for extreme and intimidating violence.”

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) “considers the CJNG a top U.S. threat and Mexico’s best-armed criminal group,” the CRS said, noting that U.S. authorities have offered a US $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of cartel leader Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, “who is believed to be hiding in the mountains of Jalisco, Michoacán, and Colima.”

Informed by media reports, the CRS report acknowledged that, according to some analysts, the CJNG has drug trafficking operations throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

“The CJNG built its dominance internationally first through extending its presence through a rapid expansion inside Mexico,” it said.

“In 2016, many analysts maintained the CJNG controlled a territory equivalent to almost half of Mexico. The group has battled Los Zetas and Gulf Cartel factions in Tabasco, Veracruz, and Guanajuato, as well as the Sinaloa … [Cartel] in the Baja Peninsula and Chihuahua. The CJNG’s ambitious expansion campaign was characterized by high levels of violence, particularly in Ciudad Juárez and Tijuana.”

The CRS also said that the CJNG has consolidated “important components of the global narcotics supply chain” through its battle to dominate key ports on both the Pacific and Gulf coasts.

“In particular, the CJNG maintains reported control over the ports of Veracruz, Manzanillo, and Lázaro Cárdenas, which has given the group access to precursor chemicals that flow into Mexico from China and other parts of Latin America,” the report said.

“As a result, according to some analysts, the CJNG has pursued an aggressive growth strategy underwritten by U.S. demand for Mexican methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl. … Despite leadership losses, the CJNG has extended its geographic reach and maintained its own cohesion while exploiting the infighting among factions of the Sinaloa organization.”

The CRS described the cartel as “intensely expansionist” and acknowledged its “willingness” to attack government officials, such as Mexico City Police Chief Omar García Harfuch.

The report also profiled eight other major Mexican criminal groups, including the Sinaloa Cartel, the Gulf Cartel and La Familia Michoacana.

Once headed by imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the Sinaloa Cartel is the “the Mexican crime organization with the largest international footprint,” CRS said. Its report cited a DEA estimate that the cartel was active in 15 of 32 Mexican entities in 2020 and noted that its leaders have successfully corrupted public officials from the local to the national level.

The report also said that many lawmakers in the current U.S. Congress are concerned about cartel-related violence in Mexico and its impact on border security.

“Some members have been evaluating the amounts and effectiveness of U.S. counternarcotics and security assistance to Mexico and assessing the overall U.S.-Mexico security relationship. Additional concerns focus on how … [cartel]-related violence has imperiled some licit economic sectors, negatively affected U.S.-Mexico trade, and contributed to the internal displacement and outmigration of Mexican citizens,” it said.

“Congress has engaged regularly with these issues, holding hearings, appropriating funds to support Mexico’s anti-crime efforts, and issuing directives and reporting requirements to U.S. agencies.”

NOTICE INVITING BIDS The Peralta Community College District

NOTICE INVITING BIDS

The Peralta Community College District (PCCD) is calling for sealed Bids from qualified firms to provide General Contracting services for the Merritt College New Landscape Horticulture Complex Project (Bid No. 22-23/01). Bids are to be submitted electronically (via Vendor Registry), by 3:00 PM, on August 25, 2022. Follow the link below for the bid opening:
https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99967227126

This project consists of abatement and demolition of existing buildings and site improvements
construction of new classrooms, greenhouses, and support spaces to house the Merritt College
Landscape Horticulture Program, with associated site improvements. All buildings are single
story. Occupancy classifications include A-3, B and U. Construction type is V-B, fully sprinkled.
Automatic sprinkler system per NFPA 13, automatic fire alarm system per NFPA 72. Seismic
zone E.

The District is asking experienced and proven General Contracting firms to have been pre-qualified through Quality Bidders prior to bid submission. To become pre-qualified, please go to the Pre-qualification for Public Works Projects page on the Peralta website, and click on the “Click here to sign up” link to get started with the prequalification process.

In order to perform the work, Bidders at the time of the Bid Opening and for the duration of the project shall possess a valid California Contractor’s license and certifications in order to qualify to perform the Work: Class B General Contractor.
A Mandatory Pre-Bid video conference meeting will be held on Wednesday August 10, 2022, at 10:00A.M. via Zoom: Conference Meeting ID 938 9934 5398.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/93899345398
A Mandatory Pre-Bid site walk will be held at the project site at the Landscape Horticulture Complex (Building H) located at 12500 Campus Drive, Oakland, CA 94619 on August 12, 2022, from 1pm – 3pm.
Copies of the bid documents may be obtained by clicking on the following link: https://build.peralta.edu/vendorregistry
https://vrapp.vendorregistry.com/Bids/View/BidsList?BuyerId=4d041f6c-7568-4c8a-8878-c82684292a3c
Governing Codes:
GC 53068
EC 81641 Publication Date: July 29, 2022-El Reportero

 

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