Baja Citizen Community Magazine October 2015
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Our dental patients love seeing their crowns made right in front INLAYS / ONLAYS of their eyes, and love our one-day cosmetic and restorative dental We are the only ofce treatment even more. in BCS with this unique technology. If you have any questions, concerns, or would like to schedule an appointment, please contact us today. DENTAL LD Hi-Tech Dr. Leonel Dorantes Guzman Melchor Ocampo 460-H between Álvaro Obregón and Mutualismo Downtown La Paz, BCS APPOINTMENTS: 612-1295657 www.dentistacerec.com.mx [email protected] The CitizenYour Community Magazine Welcome to the NEW BAJA CITIZEN! Editor’s Letter Your favorite local English-language news source has re-emerged, now with an exciting new magazine format. The new Baja Citizen will be published monthly, from October through May. I hope the magazine will provide insight into what makes following month’s issue. Please send event details to me at La Paz and its surrounding precincts ‘tick’ -- the news, the [email protected]. culture, the entertainment scene, real estate, and more! The The Baja Citizen community magazine will continue with magazine will be distributed in all your favorite places in its Facebook page, www.facebook.com/thebajacitizen, and La Paz, as well as in the communities of El Centenario, La also with on-line news at www.bajacitizen.com. News and Ventana/ El Sargento, Los Barriles, and Todos Santos. events from around the city will be uploaded daily, so please I am still looking for writers! If you have a bit of free check frequently. time and you like to write, we are looking for articles of I look forward to publishing an attractive, informative, 500 words or less that would be of interest to our readers. and useful magazine for people traveling to La Paz as well Also send me your photos. If I use one of your photos in the as for the English-speaking community now calling La Paz magazine, you will receive photo credit. home. I always welcome feedback, so please feel free to send Additionally, I am looking for a sales person to help with me an email at [email protected]. advertising. If you are interested, please email me for details. If you have an upcoming event, please submit a short paragraph or two with all the important information so we Yours, can get the word out. Information for events must be re- ceived before the 20th of each month for publication in the Gari-Ellen Index The CitizenYour Community Magazine 1 Editor’s Letter 3 Armando Martínez Vega Sworn In Editor Gari-Ellen Donohoe as Mayor of La Paz [email protected] 6 Spanish Corner 612 159 1388 6 Who is the Diva of Death? Graphic Design 8 Eight Annual Festival of Velas Fernando Sánchez Bernal in Uruapan, Michoacán art 9 La Paz’s Annual Day of the Dead Festival publishing photo 10 Bravo! Mercado Bravo design 12 Chemical Junkies - “Just Say No!” consulting 13 Making the World a Better Place Through Music [email protected] / 612 14 00 542 14 Ramblings: People I’ve Met Around La Paz The Baja Citizen Community Magazine 16 La Paz Map is a monthly, free circulation magazine 18 Smiley Citizens that is distributed in La Paz and the communities of El Centenario, Todos 20 A Year After Hurricane Odile Santos, El Pescadero, El Sargento/La 22 At Your Service Ventana and Los Barriles. 23 New Governor of Baja California Sur Sworn In The views of contributors to The Baja 24 2015 Changes to the Mexican Immigration Law Citizen Community Magazine do not 26 FANLAP Subasta 2015 Date Set necessarily reflect those of the Publishers. 28 Take Part in Ecology Project International’s Publisher: Hally J. Productions S. de R.L. Fundraising Campaingn! La Paz, BCS, Mexico 23090 29 The Baja Ha-Ha 2015 Welcome Party Welcomes Cruisers to La Paz 30 The Pelican Theatre Returns Our cover photographer 31 The Fight Against Dengue and Chikungunya is a Permanent Task Time Change in Mexico 31 Single Minimum Salary Throughout the Country IMPORTANT LA PAZ PHONE NUMBERS Tom Ireton EMERGENCY Port Captain (Police or Fire Department) 122 0243 After singlehandedly sailing his sailboat from Friday Harbor, 066 Washington to La Paz in 1999, Tom has become an active member Highway Patrol Federal Immigration in the arts community. He helped form the La Paz Youth Sympho- Federal Police Oce (INM) ny Orchestra. Just last year, he was invited to play with the newly 122 0369 125 3493 122 0429 formed professional symphony orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de IMSS Hospital Baja California Sur. 122 7377 State Tourism Oce Tom has also opened eight photography exhibitions during his time Fidepaz Hospital 124 0100 124 0400 120 0199 living in Baja California Sur, including in La Paz, Mexico City and San Jose del Cabo. Armando Martinez Vega Sworn In as Mayor of La Paz TBC Armando Martinez Vega was officially sworn in as mayor of La Paz at 7:00 pm on Sunday, September 27th. By 8:00 am the next morning, the new administration was already out fill- ing potholes, and was also busy beginning the firing of 1,000 city workers in order to decrease the amount the municipality pays in salaries. Martinez inherited a bankrupt municipality from Esthela Armando Martinez Vega, Mayor of La Paz Ponce Beltran and Francisco Monroy Sánchez. When Ponce Beltran took over in 2011 after the three-year term of Rosa Delia Cota Montaño, Ponce Beltran found the municipality to be a little more then $285,000 million pesos in debt. Far mission) to pay the municipality’s past-due $35 million peso from reducing that debt, former-mayor Esthela Ponce Beltrán electric bill. City offices were running on gas generators over increased the debt to what some are suspecting to be close to the summer. $895,000 million pesos. The state government under Governor Carlos Mendoza During the last few months of Monroy Sánchez’s term, has secured a deal with CFE to pay the municipality’s out- the city was unable to pay the salaries of city workers. Gar- standing electricity debt. Even so, newly-appointed mayor bage collection was intermittent, and the streets were left Martinez Vega is still committed to decreasing the city’s pay- unattended after every rain. Monroy Sánchez had also been roll cost. Currently, the city isn’t generating enough income trying to work out a deal with CFE (Federal Electricity Com- to pay all its staff. Not even close. In order to decrease pay- roll costs, Martinez Vega will need to reduce city staffing by 1,000 employees. Painful and complicated measures will have to be taken in order to correct the problems inherited from previous ad- ministrations; nonetheless, Martinez Vega is committing his term as mayor to getting Baja California Sur’s capital back on track. Martinez Vega’s term will run until 2018. The new adminstration has been busy filling in potholes in the Armando Martinez Vega, Mayor of La Paz municipality October 2015 3 The Baja Citizen Hola, qué gusto saludarte. A nombre del Conse- On behalf of the Board of Directors of ASPI, I would jo Directivo te doy la más cordial bienvenida a este like to give the warmest welcome to this first ever La Paz PRIMER CONGRESO INMOBILIARIO LA PAZ REAL ESTATE CONFERENCE 2015. 2015. This is an event of great interest to those who work Éste es un evento de gran interés para quienes lab- in real estate. oramos en el sector inmobiliario. “NORTHWESTERN INVESTMENT PARADISE” “NOROESTE PARAISO DE INVERSIÓN” This conference will be held on November 13th and El cual se celebrará los días 13 y 14 de Noviem- 14th, 2015 at the Costa Baja Convention Center in La bre del año en curso, teniendo como sede el Centro Paz, Baja California Sur and organized by The Associa- de Convenciones Costa Baja de La Paz, y organizado tion of Sudcaliforniano Professional Realtors (ASPI). por La Asociación Sudcaliforniana de Profesionales Inmobiliarios. At this conference, you will have the opportunity to interact with peers across the region where you can form En este Congreso tendrás la oportunidad de rela- new networks and business opportunities. cionarte con compañeros de toda la región donde po- drás hacer mas y nuevos negocios. The conference is a response to the need to increase real estate activity in the region and to celebrate Realtor’s El congreso surge como respuesta a la necesidad de Day on the 14th. What better way to celebrate than by incrementar la Actividad, así como celebrar el día del training and upgrading our skills to provide better service Agente inmobiliario, y qué mejor forma de celebrarlo delivery while creating and analyzing new strategies to que capacitándonos y actualizándonos para lograr una meet the real estate needs in our area.