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ago in an effort to find ways that women could share their They Thought talents and skills and empower And the Holidays other women. The goal was to be of service and support “with” They Could Do it people, not “at” people; creating Continue! and extending relationships for a better community. “More BY REN DRAKE HILL and They Did! can be helped if more become What’s Behind the Blue Door? involved.” The holidays, or “Holy ing in late November, offering They explained that Women Days,” continue in December sweets, dishes, talavera, exotic for Women is a multicultur- with the celebration of The animal skins, and other luxury BY REN DRAKE HILL al organization dedicated to Immaculate Conception on imports. It’s worth visiting San “meeting the needs of girls and December 8 and the com- Juan de los Lagos during this In my travels I have never every even-numbered month women in Baja,” with the target memoration of the appearance holiday if for no other reason experienced a community so with “Potlucks for a Purpose.” populations of teenagers, single of the Virgin de Guadalupe on than to purchase unusual involved in helping one another The times and days of the week mothers, victims of domestic December 12, the most impor- Christmas gifts. old/young, native/foreigner, vary in order to allow everyone violence, and those just striving tant date on the Mexican fiesta Most every Catholic-popu- human/animal…as Rosarito, to attend, allowing for those to improve their lives. They seek calendar, Or according to the lated city celebrates the Day of and the communities at its who may have monthly meet- “to empower women to use book, “Fiesta Time in Latin the Virgin de Guadalupe. The borders. ings at scheduling conflicts. their voices, acquire new skills, America.” most important of Mexico’s One such group is Mujeres I met with Board members maximize their education, sup- Northern Baja does not pilgrim shrines to the Virgin Para Mujeres (Women for Carol Council, Mary Contreras, port other women, learn trades, make a huge production of is in Mexico City, where the Women), established March 16, Valerie Russell, and Barbara and start businesses.” these two Feast Days. To really original site is celebrated. 2018. About 50 ladies attended Acosta for an update of how the On October 16, 2019 the celebrate, consider San Juan According to tradition, on the inaugural gathering and organization was progressing. Casa de Mujeres opened its de los Lagos, where several December 9, 1531 Juan Diego, continue to meet on the 8th of These four met about a year CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 “streets” are fashioned start- CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 2 November 25, 2019

and Environmental Protec- tion Hydrocarbons Section GRINGO of the SEMARNAT to begin construction of a marine Published bi-monthly and fuel terminal in March 2020, distributed in Mexico & The that could be ready to begin United States operations in the first months of 2021. The marine fuel Northern Baja Rosarito Mayor Supports salination plant in Carson, terminal will operate in El 044 (646) 179-4599 Desal Plant. Araceli Brown, California as an example of model as the one that is Sauzal and will bring much- United States our brand new Rosarito May- one that is working correctly already working in Carson, needed gasoline, fuel oil, and P.O. BOX 1700 or, has stated that she sup- without affecting the envi- California,” said Brown. diesel to Baja California at a Chula Vista, CA, 91912-1700 ports the controversial desalt ronment. She also said that several better price and with lower Ph. (323) 952-4925 plant project for Rosarito as “The model that we are of the water problems Rosari- environmental impact. Subscriptions available long as it does not gets the proposing is not the same to is having were caused as The fuel will be brought see page 10 or 11, maybe state in more debt and doesn’t one as the one the last gov- a result of the previous gov- from California from a short 12, sometimes 4. create any ecological issues. ernment was proposing; we ernment failing to maintain distance of 139 miles, as op- Or mail $65 for one year, She referred to the de- are planning to use the same the infrastructure properly, posed to fuel from Texas, as (26 issues) or $45 for six months (13 issues) which caused some pumps is currently done. to the U.S. to fail. It is estimated that the Free Some Space @ Home!! Governor Jaime Bonilla terminal will decrease trans- Follow us on FB: previously stated that the portation costs because the GringoGazette North water problem the state is fuel would be moved over Subscribe to our mailing now experiencing is a result shorter distances, making it list to get our news in your Office Hours: 9am-5pm • Closed Wednesday of the previous administra- cheaper than Pemex. inbox: www.ggnorth.com Gate Hours 8am-6pm Everyday tion’s efforts to make the new New hospital for Ensena- government look bad. da. The Mexican Institute Check the paper online: Storage space starting New Marine Fuel Termi- of Social Security (IMSS) www.ggnorth.com You may view the entire from $85 monthly nal in Ensenada Approved. announced that they will be newspaper, just as it Captain Ricardo Thompson, developing a new hospital appears in print, online Now offering moving services! manager of the project, re- in the Chapultepec area of ported he has the approval Ensenada. Who's to blame: KM 40.5 Free Road in Rosarito from the Energy Regula- With an initial invest- Ph. (661) 614 1642 • US. (619) 797 8097 tory Commission (CREA), ment of 125 million USD, Publisher [email protected] Oliver Quintero, General Customs Admin- the new 260-bed hospital [email protected] www.bajapublicstorage.com istration and the National will be focused on offering Agency of Industrial Safety to its affiliates doctors who Managing Editor are specialists in their fields, Luisa Rosas providing much-needed re- [email protected] sources in this area. Proofing Construction on the proj- David Beyer ect is said to begin in the first months of 2020 and will be Distribution Ensenada: David Beyer finished two years later. Rosarito & TJ: The IMSS is the hospital Luis "The Brush" Muñoz. system that attends to non- government workers and Sales their families, but is said to Cell (646) 179-4599 have an oversaturation of as [email protected] much as 300% with the current facilities in Ensenada. Journalism is publishing Ensenada loses land. something that somebody Once again Ensenada has lost doesn’t want the battle against Rosarito for 168 square kilometers of printed. land around the La Mision area, which Rosarito has long claimed is theirs. This battle has been go- ing on for several years, and both sides have lost in the Everything past; however, each side tra- else is ditionally appeals to a higher just public court, so don’t expect this to relations CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 November 25, 2019 3

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and on. The story is amazing. Where You Thinking How a teacher manages to pile Rene’s Casino Shut up that much cash is also un- explained and unaddressed. Of Storing Your One can only wonder. Down Over Lack Of There is no mindreading machine out there, so the Money Overseas? best measure of willfulness Permits is to look for tangible actions Think again, and read Mindy's story first. or omissions that suggest you knew and chose not to comply. Things that look like BY ORLANDO GOTAY efforts to conceal always look TAX ATTORNEY bad. Shifty explanations make you look even worse. When Mindy is a teacher in New take advantage of a program she got audited she initially York. In 1999 Mindy opened designed to provide reduced denied that there was an ac- a Swiss bank account. It didn’t penalties in exchange for fu- count at all. Then there was have her name; it just had an ture compliance. Instead she an account but it wasn’t her account number. Around the opted to quietly file amended money. As more evidence time of this story, the account returns and late foreign bank came to light, however, she had a balance of just under $2 account reports (FBARs), slowly amended and erod- million. hoping no one would notice. ed her statements until she Mindy’s difficulties? She Someone did. reached her final testimony: never reported the account as The IRS assessed a “will- that she knew that the account required. When Swiss banks ful” FBAR penalty of 50% and money was hers, and began furnishing information of the highest account bal- that she had met with bank to the US Treasury, she did not ance for one of the years. In representatives to manage it, Mindy’s case, the fine came and that she had withdrawn to $803,530.00. That’s some money. Bad. chunk of change. You can end up in this She went to court and got pickle quite by accident. In- taken to the cleaners. Why? herit a foreign bank account On October 7, the Directorate of Inspection, Verification, and Just about everything she said and not report it… that would Ordination of Public Roads implemented an operation in the “strained credulity” –judicial be bad. A minor inconve- four casinos in Rosarito to verify whether they had municipal speak for “we don’t believe nience (the original bank permits to operate. a word,” She could not re- report) now risks becoming a During the operation in Rene’s Casino, those in charge ENGLISH SPEAKING member if she opened the “willful” FBAR penalty of 50% assured they had the documentation in order, but they never AA meetings in Ensenada account, where the money of the highest *yearly* balance presented it, so the city inspectors proceeded to close it. Call for times came from, the banker’s sig- on the account. Each year is a Later, federal inspectors from the Department of Justice and locations: nature, her efforts to prevent separate violation-- nothing (PGR), through the Federal Public Ministry, proceeded to place U.S. +1.619.721.0299 investments in US securities, prevents the IRS from assess- seals on the doors corresponding to the closure because they Mex 52.1.646.244.7116 a cash withdrawal, and on ing a penalty for each annual didn’t even have the operating permits granted by the Federal willful violation. It can add Government through the “Secretaría de Governacion,” or Office up real quick. for Domestic Affairs. First in Rosarito, Don’t be like Mindy. More than a month after the closure, the owners have not first in service shown the required documentation, so the establishment has Since Orlando Gotay is a Cali- remained closed. 1971 fornia licensed tax attorney City Hall Secretary, Manuel González Araujo, explained that • Health and life insurance (Master of Laws in Taxation) if a business of this type does not have the proper permit issued • House and Condo admitted to practice before the by the Federal Government through the Office for Domestic insurance IRS, the U.S. Tax Court and Affairs, it cannot access other municipal permits, including other taxing agencies. His love the sale of alcoholic beverages. He also mentioned that during • Legal Assistance of things Mexican has led him the operation, this turned out to be the only casino without the • Car insurance to devote part of his practice corresponding federal permits. (Mexico and US) to federal and state tax mat- The big question here is: How were they able to operate for ters of U.S. expats in Mexico. years without having the proper permits? , • Board Association He can be reached at tax@ Insurance 00 orlandogotay.com Facebook: Margaritas Everyday! • Personal Accident GotayTaxLawyer or What- $3. Benito Juarez # 10, Quinta del Mar sApp at +17604491668. This LIVE MUSIC strip center, in front of the stop light is just a general outline. It is WED - SUN Phone 661-6121028 and 661-6130692 informational only and not RESTAURANT & CANTINA Km. 52 Old Road to Ens Email: [email protected] Let us pay your household bills meant as legal advice. , FRESH SEA FOOD Ph. (661) 688-0947 www.berniesinsurance.com on your behalf. Easy set up [email protected] 6 November 25, 2019

try their Spanish out. On spring break, I usually meet Ask a Mexican young women who practice Many of us Mexicans have had close encounters with foreigners their high school Spanish and and English speakers, and not only is there a language barrier, but it’s hilarious because they are also a cultural one. Spanish is a romantic language and English is taught a very formal Span- a Germanic language, so the general gist and sense of the language ish. Last year, a girl tried her can be a lot more different than what it seems on paper. Also, some very best to “grab” a taxi, she foreigners are taught Spanish in high school and university, but thought the right word was co- often times it’s a castellan Spanish- from Spain. Which is also, not ger, and that means something how we speak in Mexico. else here. (It translates more to a four-letter word that rhymes How do you feel when a gringo speaks with firetruck) she was a little Spanish to you? What are some things tipsy, which made it funnier but I felt bad after a while and you’ve noticed as far as the language barrier told her the right w a y goes? Do you have any funny or interesting and pointed her to a nice col- anecdotes? Domingo Aguilar, 65, re- tired. Daniela Velazquez, 22, in Spanish sometimes, CHARLY’S PLACE I think it is really nice when waitress. when he was in a good There's No Place Like Charly's Place! someone tries to assimilate I once had an American mood but hated him your culture as an effort to boss, who had a very bad tem- trying to speak Spanish HAPPY HOUR: Mon-Thu 4PM-7PM make you more comfortable. I per. Sometimes, he was nice when he was angry: it seemed LIVE MUSIC: Thur, Fri, Sat & Sunday spent a while living and work- and would joke around with as if he wanted to offend us in KM 37.5 Rosarito-Ensenada Free Road. Almost across the ing in the U.S., and many of us us, the whole crew was Mexi- our language. To this day, he St. from the big Jesus. Ph. (661) 613-2685 US. (619) 663-1587 went to the same bar after a can. He knew some Spanish has very unstable staff. long day of work. Some of the words like ándale, hurry up; league of mine, w h o callate, shut up and such. On Jaime Higuera, 35, driver. drove her to her hotel. He told Maria Montes, 41, cashier. a good day, he would buy us I always meet tourists who me that she practiced rolling I really don’t mind when a tequila shots to make us work her r’s all the way to the resort foreigner tries to speak Span- happier and on bad days he and it was driving him a little ish, what gets me is when they would scream his head off and crazy! I overall am happy to try to be funny. It’s like they are get pissed if we talked in Span- meet people who try to speak almost disrespecting someone ish among us. We never meant Spanish, except for cursing, with the wrong words, I know to disrespect him, but honestly, because even when I know they don’t fully get it, but that’s communication was faster in they have no idea, they can be my point, if you don’t know, our language. I thought it was a little offensive. don’t do it. One time this tour- waitresses were mean and told the cure when he tried to speak ist tried to tell me a pickup line us we had to pay our beers in in Spanish to get a discount, he full as we ordered them, but just didn’t get it. And not only the bartender was nice. He that, he became increasingly would try his best to speak to annoying every time he tried. us, who had very bad English I was so mad at the end of it, and make us feel welcome at his friends tipped me more the place. Eventually, we all than they should have, and would crowd at the bar to even that did not make things avoid the waitresses and ended better. up teaching him more Spanish, CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

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MPM has partnered [email protected]. etc., please visit the Facebook bishop. Upon unfolding his waived for those who cannot with VIA International, which March 8th will be the 1st page “Mujeres Para Mujeres cape the image of the Virgin afford the payment. English has positive experience in mi- anniversary of MPM and elec- Group” or phone 646-978- de Guadalupe appeared, sur- tions for next year’s Board will 7507. rounded by the roses. be held. The group is always Consider coming out This occasion is still cel- BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY seeking new energetic mem- of retirement for this great ebrated today. For over 400 Make and save money with our streaming TV media. bers, Mexican and expat, espe- cause. Gentlemen are welcome years in the shrine on this We offer 1,500 HDTV, 8,000 movies on demand, 900 TV cially from the northern area too! , rocky hill, the original cape series, all sports for $49.95/month. of Rosarito. 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