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Pete Sampras saved two set points and defeated Patrick Rafter 7-6 (6), 6-4 Sunday to win the singles title at the $150,000 Del Mar Devel-

opment Champions Cup, the third event on the 2009 Outback Champions Series tennis circuit. Sampras earned his fifth career title on the global tennis circuit for champion tennis players age 30 and over and also overtook John McEnroe as the No. 1 ranked player on the Champions Series.

“Tennis above all else should be fun,” said Jim Courier after his third-place victory. “These tourna-ments allow us to play hard, but we can still enjoy ourselves between sets. I played some great matches here. The level of play has been high. I think this tournament here in Cabo was a great success. The crowd is wonderful. The weather is incredible and really everyone is so happy and friendly.”

THE PLAYERS

PETE SAMPRAS: Widely consid-ered to be the best player of all time, has 14 Grand Slam titles, more than any other man. He was undefeated on the Outback Cham-pion Tour in 2007. Sampras holds 66 career titles, 64 in singles.

PATRICK RAFTER: Hailed in his native country as Australian of the Year in 2002. With 21 career titles, 11 singles, 10 doubles, Rafter was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2006.

JIM COURIER: Won his first Grand Slam in 1991 then achieved World No. 1 ranking in 1992. He has 29 career titles, 23 in singles and 6 doubles. Courier is also a founding partner of InsideOut Sports - creator of the Champion-ship Series charity tournaments.

MATS WILANDER: Played on 11 Davis Cup teams for Sweden, win-ning the Cup 1984-1987. He has 40 career titles, 33 in singles and 7 in doubles.

LUIS HERRERA: At 15 the top-ranked junior tennis player in Mexico.. He’s also established tennis academies throughout Mexico to support the growth of the game.

LEONARDO LAVALLE: The Mexican Davis Cup captain is a long career champion. He holds 6 career titles, 5 in doubles, rising to the highest ranking in the French Open and Wimbledon.

JORGE LOZANO: The Mexican national Champion in singles and the doubles in 1981 and 1990.He was a member of the Mexi-can National Davis Cup Team for fifteen years and won nine World Doubles Championships.

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Pete Sampras won the Del Mar Development Champions Cup tournament beating out other

“big” tennis names Patrick Rafter, Jim Courier and Mats Wilander. However this event was not about winners….it was more about the community gathering for the event itself. Plus, this tournament is one of just eight Champion tour matches in the world, so it is important in the world display of tennis as well. It was a FIRST EVER happening for Los Cabos, inspired and executed by visionaries Christopher Clouser, Chairman of the Tennis Hall of Fame, and Ron Hatfield, President of Del Mar Development. With their staffs, a large community volunteer group and about $1 million usd, the event attracted over 4400 people to the 5 day event in mid-March. This was the first year of the three year commit-ment by the Champions Tour to have Los Cabos on it’s schedule. What created a buzz throughout the community before, during and after the event, was the excitement local Mexicans as well as the winter residents of Palmilla, felt having such a gathering of top tennis talent in the intimate setting of their Tennis Club. Founded in 2005, the Outback Champions Series has featured some of the biggest names in tennis over the last 25 years, including Agassi, Sampras, McEnroe, Courier and oth-ers. To be eligible to compete, players must have reached at least a major singles final, been ranked in the top five in the world or played singles on a championship Davis Cup team. The Outback Champions Series features

eight events on its 2009 schedule with each event featuring $150,000 in prize money as well as Champions Series ranking points that will deter-mine the year-end No. 1 champion who will receive a $100,000 bonus. Excellent professional tennis was not the only focus each day. The players participated in two kids clinics, over 20 information booths showcased products and services by local companies and there was even an opportunity for local tennis enthu-siasts to share a few volleys with the best players in the world. Besides Pete Sampras from USA and Patrick Rafter from Australia, the tourney invited tennis greats Jim Courier from USA, Mats Wilander from Sweden and, Luis Herrera, Leonardo LaValle and Jorge Lozano all from Mexico. This specific tennis tournament is the creation of InsideOut Sports + Entertainment, a New York City-based independent producer of pro-prietary events and promotions. It was founded in 2004 by former world No. 1 and Hall of Fame tennis player Jim Courier and former SFX and

Clear Channel executive Jon Venison. In 2005, InsideOut launched its sig-nature property, the Outback Cham-pions Series, a collection of tennis events featuring the greatest names in tennis over the age of 30. In addi-tion, InsideOut produces many other successful events including “Legend-ary Night” exhibitions, charity events and tennis fantasy camps such as the annual “Ultimate Fantasy Camp”. In 2008, InsideOut raised over $4 mil-lion for charity.

LOS CABOS COMMUNITY ON INTERNATIONAL TV

This tournament was big for Los Cabos so all local magazines and newspapers had some sort of story about it. Many online tennis sites featured and reported on the match as well. The energy from this event is lasting long beyond the few days of the match. During the entire month of April, The Tennis Channel featured 16 broadcasts of the tourney. Another popular Tennis Channel show “Desti-nation Tennis” has selected Los Cabos as one of just four destinations they feature per year. Starting September ‘09 Los Cabos tennis will be airing regularly on the program. Nationally throughout Mexico, Televisa ran daily feature stories during the event. FoxSports Net has agreed to showcase the Del Mar Development Champion Cup matches through-out the USA, Asia and Fox Sports Europe. This is exciting as this is the first time a first year Outback Cham-pions Series tournament location has been picked up on the International Network. Ultimately this was a ter-rific PR event for Los Cabos!

MAJOR TENNIS STARS IN LOS CABOSThe Palmilla Tennis Club attracts world-class playersby Susan Carol Photos Richard Cooper

The tennis tournament would not have happened in Los Cabos without the $1 million up-front

investment by Del Mar Develop-ment headquartered at Palmilla. They provided the staff to handle the numerous logistics, guaranteed the prize money and built a stadium for hundreds of people. The TV cover-age and public relations communi-cations in a wide variety of media brought huge world attention to this part of Mexico It was 13 years ago when playing golf at Palmilla that Houston busi-ness friends Ken Schnitzer and Ron Hatfield created the vision for Vil-las del Mar at Palmilla. When they determined Los Cabos was ready, they acquired a small piece of beach property, and built six luxury villas to test the market for high-end real estate, full ownership homes. The villas sold before completion and they knew they had the right formula in the right place. They con-tinued to purchase land and today have constructed 182 homes accom-plishing engineering feats on their mountain with breath-taking vistas. Today Del Mar Development employs over 200 people, providing 5 star services, and has spent $1 billion in Los Cabos. The future includes plans to develop another 250 acres in the Palmilla development and sup-port community events like the Del Mar Development Champions Cup Tennis Tournament.

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Over $50,000 was raised from the tennis tournament to donate to this major local charity. The mission of the Children’s Foundation is to provide medical, educational and humanitarian assistance to the children, their families and supportive organizations of the Los Cabos area. Some of the organiza-tions benefiting from this foundation: Amigo de los Ninos, LigaMAC, DIF Los Cabos, Mobilize Mankind, San Juan Diego Shelter, Casa Hogar, Cruz Roja and many others. Tom Walsh a native of South Dakota, USA, is a major contributor to our community with his administrative talent and natural charisma to run a legal organi-zation and major entertainment events all with the goals of raising millions of dollars yearly for Baja California Sur.



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1. World Class Tennis Stars: Front row; (left) Pete Sam-pras, Luis Herrera & Jim Courier. Back Row; (left) Mats Wilander, Patrick Rafter, Leonardo LaValle & Jorge Loz-ano. Photo taken at Club 96 by Cathy Buchanan.

2. Dog Friendly Capella Resort Pedregal provided photo background. General Manager Peter Bowling with Cabo Human Society spokesdog Travisito and former Minne-sota Governor Jesse Ventura.Photo by Bruce Herman

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PUBLISHER LETTER

Life in Los Cabos remains pretty exciting, optimistic and for-ward thinking. We’re healthy

and don’t have the conditions that breed flu viruses. We have property investors from throughout the world planning major resort projects on our ocean coasts. We continue to receive visitors from throughout the world who like the attractive exchange rates, have timeshare investments, surfing points they love, annual fish-ing excursions and inviting beaches and mountain valleys everywhere to explore. We from the north feel very lucky to live here. We warmly wel-come our beleaguered friends fleeing the turmoil of the world and know our blue skies, sunshine, good food and music will soothe your heart.

The past few months have been full of charity fund raisers, many with star appeal. The first ever major tennis tournament (p.3) attracted thousands of spectators, and inter-national media raising over $50,000 for charity. Then former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura left his east cape hideaway to highlight the Cabo Humane Society fund raiser (p. 7) raising tens of thousands for our local animals. The LigaMAC Jazz festival once again was a huge suc-cess, featuring grammy winning jazz singer Marcia Ball, and raising great sums of money for their ongoing work with local families in need. We have excellent organizers in our new community, who honestly care about the needs of others. Most of us have migrated from someplace else, so bonding together to make sure all are taken care of is a good way to start our own local traditions.

Be sure to notice the stories about some of the local Mexican festivals that communities actively enjoy every year. San Jose celebrates it’s founding for 2 weeks every March and Pescadero had it’s first Chili & Strawberry Festival, with the second annual Mango Festival in Todos San-tos planned for July. These Fiestas capture the mixture of Mexican traditions melting with our newly populated tourist resort towns.

La Paz is worth discovering, and two of our writers living locally have shared their inside view of the State’s capital city. (p. 37)

Destino Magazines extends a spe-cial thank you to all of our advertis-ers who provide this free magazine to over 20,000 readers every month. They are the backbone of this maga-zine, and their businesses stay strong with our extensive local distribution. Susan Carol

This is NOTthe 1st Swine Flu Panicby Dr. Joseph Mercola MNAuthor “the Great Bird Flu Hoax”

This isn’t the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976

and resulted in a massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

Do you happen to recall the result of this massive campaign?

Within a few months, claims total-ing $1.3 billion had been filed by vic-tims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths. Also, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

The swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized. More people died from the Swine Flu Vaccine than Swine Flu!

It is very difficult to forecast a pandemic, and a rash response can be extremely damaging. Should the isolated and random deaths of a few hundred people worldwide warrant the feverish news headlines?

To put things into perspective, malaria kills 3,000 people EVERY DAY, and it’s considered “a health problem”... But of course, there are no fancy vaccines for malaria that can rake in billions of dollars in a short amount of time.

In 2005-2008, those flu, SARS, and Ebola fears were exposed as little more, a cruel hoax, designed to instill fear, and line the pocketbooks of various individuals and industries. gency worthy of much attention, letalone fear!

There are serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs. Not to mention that it contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?

Your fear will make some people VERY RICH in today’s crumbling economy. According to the Asso-ciated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the nearfuture -- and that’s without a pan-demic outbreak.

More than half a dozen pharma-ceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc, Roche, GlaxoSmith-

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This is the 2nd appearance of Jesse Ventura on the cover of Destino Los Cabos. In 2001 the publisher featured her trade mis-sion trip with Governor Ventura to Mexico, where he met with outgo-ing President Zedillo and incoming President Fox.

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NOTE from Nanette: Not too long ago a friend of mine sent me an attachment with a You Tube address entitled “the girl who silenced the UN for five minutes”. I realized again “from the mouths of babes” - let the truth be known. It was from this experience that I came up with the idea, along with the generous consent of Destino Magazines, of providing a space where the youth far and near can tell us their thoughts and views about themselves and the world in which they live. I have so far gath-ered young writers from Asia, United States, Brazil and Mexico and I am working on some from Africa and the Middle East. I hope you enjoy hearing some of the things they have to say. Presenting Akane Kitamura, who was asked to write the essay by Stephen Nelson’s present teacher.

Akane KitamuraNationality: JapaneseKyushu Girls High School 09Kumamoto University, JapanI’m going to study e communication and the media at the university. I have studied abroad in New Zealand and Canada each for 3 months.

This is my essay.

A long time ago, people spoke the same language. But one day they decided to build a

tower of glory for themselves. God became disappointed in man’s pride and for this dishonor the people no longer spoke the same language but began to speak many languages.

INTERNATIONALVOICES OFOUR YOUTHCoordinated by Nanette Hayles

The tower to the heavens was never completed. The tower is called “ the tower of Babel”. There are so many languages in the world. Even in one country, thereare various dialects. To communicate, we have to use the same language when we go to a foreign country. Therefore, people need to overcome the lan-guage barrier to communicate with foreigners. Because of globalization and the development of the Internet, the distance between us and foreign countries has become shorter and shorter. We began to pay more atten-tion to the world and have become less interested in our own respective countries. English has become more and more of a global language mak-ing it easier to communicate with foreigners. The globalization of one language has brought about the decrease of many languages from every corner of the world. In Japan where I live, there were many dialects from the old days. These were not actually dialects, but different languages. Each dialect is unique and some of these dialects are still spoken. But long ago, some dialects had an image of being “too rural”, so they decided not to speak in their dialect. This along with the movement toward the unification of written and spoken language, Japan

unified and formed a “standard Japa-nese” language. The Japanese govern-ment thought that only the standard Japanese was best for communication and eventually many dialects were gradually lost. Now, only the older Japanese can speak the dialects that were spoken long ago; hence the number of people who speak different dialects becomes fewer and fewer. This phenomenon has not only happened in Japan but worldwide; many minority languages have disappeared. We have to protect them! I think New Zealand is the best example of a country that decided to protect a language. The aborigines who lived in New Zealand spoke Mori. But when New Zealand was colonized they began to speak Eng-lish. After their independence, Mori language was protected and made an official language in New Zealand. One language was defended at this time. Now, we might try to all commu-nicate in one language, a language that is shared with people all over the world. But we should remember thatbefore building the tower of Babel, we all had our one original language. It is wonderful that many people can share many languages. I hope many languages are inherited and protected forever. Thank you.



It was quite a sight walking into the clubhouse at Cabo del Sol and having cute dogs greeting the

guests. The Humane Society of Cabo San Lucas has the amazing staff and creative talent to organize fun and profitable fund raising events to keep up with their growing needs of the animal community. This one in April, titled Paws ‘n Claws, combined 9 holes

of golf, cocktails, din-ner and a lively and lucrative auction. To attract the hundreds who joined the event was former Governor of Minnesota (1999-2003) Jesse Ventura, now a local resident of Vinorama on the East Cape. Jesse and his wife, Terry, have dogs, like to help stray dogs and have a good veterinar-ian friend, Mike, who has donated time working on animals in the Cabo area. He connected Jesse with the Humane

Society and the event that would bring him into the local public eye. He spoke extensively about his love of animals and the worthy activities of the Humane Society and the nice fund raising event, so a good reason to come into town. Jesse generally feels he’s had all he wants of the public spotlight after his public jobs as; professional wrestler, TV personality, movie actor, Gov-ernor, TV talk show host, Harvard professor, and book author. So after spending years living in Baja Sur part time, Destino and specifically me, was eager to catch up. He often shares he likes to change his public persona to fit the character, so who is he today? A little qualifier here...I am also a Minnesota native, voted for him, and agree with most of his political views. I first heard of Jesse “The Body” in the mid-1970’s when professional wrestling was starting to appear on

TV. He was known as a bad guy, very flamboyant with many saying he cop-ied his passionate style from popular evangelist Billy Graham, another Minnesotan. He won numerous titles and was in this business for 10 years. He then morphed into an animated wrestling TV commentator and movie actor. Predator with current Califor-nia Governor Arnold Schwarzeneg-ger in 1987 was memorable. He also had roles in Running Man, Demolition Man, Batman & Robin, just to name a few. Last year he was involved with an independent film as a teacher, due out in 2009. Then one day, toward the end of the 1998 election campaign year, Jesse “The Mind” Ventura appeared on the Minnesota scene. Riding the exciting 3rd Party political wave led by Ross Perot and his Reform Party in 1998, Jesse, a community Mayor, used creative advertisin and the mini $300,000 budget he was given, only because Dean Barkley led the MN State Independence Party to a sizable enough percent of voters to qualify for Federal funding. The people of Minnesota were ready for change, and Jesse was larger-than-life. He was a good Governor. He brought a huge amount of attention to Minnesota and worked with agen-cies and local leaders to turn these contacts into new business for the State. Many famous, powerful and influential people stopped by Min-nesota to see him during his four years running the State. He helped grow world connections for Minne-sota leading successful trade missions, with one to Mexico that I personally had the opportunity to share as part of his press corps. Former President Zedillo hosted him in the Presidential palace. Newly elected President Vicente Fox met with him privately with the com-mitment to open more relations, which resulted in a Mexican consul in Minnesota and contracts signed for Minnesota corn producers and equip-ment manufacturers. He was on the cover of Destino Los Cabos winter 2001 with an extensive story about the week-long Mexican trip. He had a good staff that performed the work of the State in a business like, bi-partisan way. He tried hard to move the State to a bicameral legislature (didn’t fly) structure and expand light rail (this is happening) and lowered yearly auto registration fees (rule stuck and fees still low). Of course most of his ideas and new measures were blocked by the two large political parties at almost every turn, finally causing him to not seek re-election.

JESSE VENTURA GOLFS FOR ANIMALSKnown to many from the north as the former Governor of Minnesota, and to locals as Jesse, the East Cape surfer.

by Susan Carol

We in his home State learned a lot about him during his time as Gov-ernor. We saw his style right at the beginning when he wore a feathered boa around his neck over his suit at his inauguration party. We thought him refreshing and honest. Jesse has enjoyed an extraordinary life. A significant and defining era of his past was his early years on active military duty in special operations (NAVY SEALS) during the Vietnam war. He was part of an underwater demolition team and is considered one of the most famous SEALS alumni (see; www.navyseal.com for his bio). He’s often commented that SEAL training was the toughest experience of his life. During an interview with Destino after the Humane Society fund-raiser, Ventura shared that he had lost his patriot spirit during the Bush years (feels more optimistic now). He has shared in the past that “Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowl-edge and belief”. He is especially upset about those who approved torture. “If you gave me just one day water-boarding Dick Cheney, I’d have him confessing to the Sharon Tate murder” (committed by sociopath Charles Manson and his group in 1969) Ventura firmly states. “Part of my SEALS training was to experience water-boarding, and believe me, it is torture”. Jesse’s most recent book, “Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me” which is a hypothetical story about his race for President of the USA as an Independent party candidate. His books are blunt and honest, like his 1999 memoir “I Ain’t Got time to Bleed”. Just last summer, Jesse and Dean Barkley flipped a coin to see who would run for the open Senate seat in Minnesota still not decided. (Al Franken has won in a re-count but incumbent Norm Coleman is taking the result to court). Barkley won the coin toss and attracted about 17% of the vote in the State. He describes his life now as “wak-ing up in the morning with nothing to do, and going to bed at night with half of it done”. His current goal is to stay cellular phone free, and com-puter illiterate. “I see how frustrated my wife gets looking at a computer”. He’s also added “surfer” to his many talents, and like many living on the East Cape, drops all activities when the waves are good. He refers to surfers being more religious and dedi-cated to what they love than anyone following a regular religion. Jesse’s future? “I aspire to be the best surfer I can be”...

Jesse Ventura (holding dog) with close Minnesota friends. Below Terry Ventura holding cat at the shelter.



Since 1991 The Humane Society of Cabo San Lucas (HS) has been operating the only form

of Animal Protection and Control in the area, helping thousands of streethungry cats and dogs. Also they have helped the community neighbor-hoods to avoid the spread of diseases by removing sickly packs of dogs roaming their streets.

In 1997 the Victor Hugo Cesena family showed their appreciation for the group’s dedication by donating land for an animal center. Construc-tion of the facility was financed solely by donations from local residents and tourists. The center began offering rescue and rehabilitation to homeless animals in early 1998, then an adop-tion program was formed. They also work with children, teaching care and kindness to animals, as well as with the legal committee proposing protection laws. School field trips to the shelter are very popular.

You may be asking isn’t this a gov-ernment issue? Yes, but in the State of Baja California Sur there is no governmental agency to address the problem of homeless domestic ani-mals living on the streets. Neverthe-less to our surprise, the HS proposal of Animal Protection Legislation in Cabo, was brought to the attention of the Sub-Director of Public Ser-vices Mr. Gregorio Canales and Mrs. Nelida Alfaro the 4th alderman last May who made it possible to enter the Cabildo (Cabo`s committee incharge of creating and proclaiming new laws) for the proposal’s analysis and approval.

This new law insures proper liv-ing conditions will apply not only to dogs and cats but to the Zoos includ-ing Santiago and the Dolphin Center in downtown Cabo San Lucas. Also protected are the lethargic baby sea lions at the Cabo San Lucas marina, the tiny sombrero photo iguanas, theskinny beach horses, the pelicans and sea lions hit by fishing boats andkilled by lost fishing gear.

The HS goal is to extend the law to the whole state of Baja with the support of deputy Mr. Arturo de la Rosa and other civil organizations like Baja Dogs in La Paz and CARE in San José del Cabo. The approval of this law shows our community and government are committed to help-ing harmless creatures.

For further information email Aida Trujillo: [email protected]

ANIMALPROTECTION LAW

The first in Bajaby Lissette Valentin

Their central mission is to please their guests, and today’s own-ers want their pets included

in their vacation, so Capella created a “yes-pet policy”. There are spe-cial dog walk areas, no pool, spa or restaurant access, bowls and water dishes, and of course size limits. If it’s not a “carry on” size it won’t like resort living.

Peter Bowling, the General Man-ager, stepped up immediately when the Humane Society of Cabo asked for his support. An animal lover, and sensitive manager, he’s proud of their dog policy and property has sold on this Land’s End beachfront resort because it. Peter has been described by Capella upper management with “his innate sixth sense for service, he will surely delight future resort guests”.

Bowling started his hospitality career in his native England where he transformed a 12 room Queen Anne mansion into a 42 room award-win-ning country house. He moved on to warm-weather resorts at some of the caribbean’s finest resorts like The Royal Pavilion and Volla Nova in Bar-bados, Jumba Bay, Antigua and the Cotton House Hotel in Mustique.

Capella is an international brand, high-end ownership resort group. Bowling is part of the Capella fam-ily and was recently involved in the building of a new project, Capella Castlemartyr in County Cork, Ire-land. Other Capella resorts are in Velden, Austria, Dusseldorf, Ger-many, Ixtapa, Mexico, Telluride, Colorado and Sentosa Island, Singa-pore. Their Cabo San Lucas property is opening and future projects in the works are Riviera Maya, Mexico and Niseko, Japan

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New homicide rate research released today by Mexican real estate agency, RE/MAX

Investment Properties, indicates that major tourist zones in Mexico are up to 26 times safer than some tourist zones in the U.S.A. The study looks at homicide rates for the first 3 months of 2009 in 15 Mexican states and compares them with the average 3 month homicide rates for 18 cities in the U.S.A. and 9 cities in Canada in 2007 and 2008. The Mexican state of Baja Cali-fornia Sur - location of tourist zones Los Cabos, La Paz and Loreto - has a homicide rate 26 times lower than Orlando, 18x lower than Miami, & West Palm Beach, 12x lower than Tampa and half that of Honolulu. The Mexican state of Quintana Roo - location of tourist zones Can-cun and the Riviera Maya - has a homicide rate 14 times lower than Orlando, 10 times lower than Miami, 9 times lower than West Palm Beach, 6x lower than Tampa and Honolulu. The figures also show that Mexi-can tourist zones are even safer when the homicide rate is compared with major cities in the U.S.A. and Canada, where many tourists to Mexico have their homes. For example, Baja California Sur has a homicide rate 39 times lower than Washington D.C., 19 times lower than Houston, 17 times lower than Dallas, 7 times lower than the city of New York and 3 times lower than Vancouver. The new study shows most vio-lence in Mexico is restricted to iso-lated zones in Chihuahua, Guerrero and U.S. border areas. Mexico’s big-gest tourist areas remain a paradise for vacationers.

There is likely nothing more sym-bolic of a family’s success than a home. Studies show that children

living in a private home perform bet-ter in school, are healthier, and live longer. A home is vital to the health, happiness and success. But, there are many in Mexico who live in crowded conditions with several generations of family or, who have no permanent home at all. Homex, Mexico’s larg-est homebuilder, is changing that dynamic in Mexico and the world. Homex is the only Mexican com-pany that belongs to “The Companies Circle of the Latin American Corpo-rate Governance Roundtable,” and the only Mexican Company in the homebuilding industry listed on both the Mexican Stock Exchange (BVM) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In addition to employ-ing over 20,000 people, Homex has developed a vision and social commitment beyond its obligations and the communities’ expectations. “Homex High School” – an education program for adults where company employees, clients and suppliers’ employees can retake their elemen-tary and high school education; “Altius Foundation/Mano Amigo Schools” – a values-based program offered in two schools that Homex built; and “Parkeelektra Culiacan” – a project of six parks in Culiacan that benefit more than 10,000 families. Today more than 194,000 Mexi-can families live in homes built by Homex. In order to promote devel-opment and self-improvement in poor communities, Homex launched the Im Joa program, which means “my house” in the Mayan Yoreme dialect. The program is centered on fami-lies in rural and urban areas who in

TONY ROBBINS HONORS MEXICAN BUSINESS LEADER Homex building homes for those in needby Brett Sawyer

some way are marginalized from soci-ety, living in substandard conditions. Homex has contributed machines and minds to build homes. They provide a community with a mobile earth compressor to make bricks for walls, and assign an engineer to super-vise work. The physical work is done by the future owners of the houses, actually building their homes with their own hands. In 2008, Homex provided “free” homes to nearly 300 families. Recently Gerardo de Nicolas, CEO of Homex, was interviewed on stage by the legendary inspirational guru Tony Robbins in Las Vegas, NV, USA. As honored guest at the “Ulti-mate Business Mastery Program” at the Mandalay Bay Resort, Mr. Rob-bins was interviewing Sr. de Nicolas in front of over 500 top international business professionals. During the interview Sr. de Nicolas spoke of the Im Joa program and how Homex had through that program already pro-vided approximately 3000 homes to needy families. This left Mr. Robbins speechless and in awe, and finished with a standing ovation of applause and cheers from the crowd. The conference attendees sponta-neously initiated a donation program that resulted in the collection of funds that will finance construction of 100 homes. Tony Robbins was so moved by both Sr. de Nicolas and the emotion of the crowd that he and his business partner, Chet Holmes, immediately matched the 100-home donation made by the crowd. 200 Mexican families will benefit from this bit of magic.

Mexico is #1 in all of Latin America for foreign investment and 4th in the World behind, China, Russia and Turkey.

Mexico is 5th in the World for Oil Production.

Mexico is 7th in the World for Exportation.

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Mexico is the 7th Largest Tourist Destination in the World with 21.9 million international tourists.

Mexico is a Country which Inter-nal Reserves actually exceeds its external debt. Currently Mexico’s debt is 34 Billion Dollars with Reserves topping 80 Billion.

Mexico pays great returns on investment. Currently interest rates on Mexican Government Treasuries are 8.25%.

Within the next 10 years 70 million people will retire. 25-30% of them will make some type of investment in Mexico, mainly Real Estate.......

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attorneys practicing permanently in Los Cabos to join the association; 2) Have a solid representation as an association before the different gov-ernmental agencies and other non-governmental organizations; improve 3) Continue legal education courses and conferences that will increase the quality of the association members. Furthermore, Rene Nunez informed the attendees that Los Cabos is a high-end tourist resort and that the attorneys have a big responsibility to verify that the laws are properly applied to the residents and visitors of Los Cabos. Nunez concluded his speech congratulating the newly elected board of directors. A great audience was present con-sisting of members of the association as well as special guests like Mayor Nunez; Mr. Hugo Flores criminal judge in San Jose del Cabo repre-senting the state appeal court of Baja California Sur; Mr. Cesar Jeronimo Chavez civil judge in San Jose del Cabo; Mr. Luis Sevilla president of the labor courts in Los Cabos; Mr. Antonio Agundez general director of the potable water department of the city government of Los Cabos; Sara del Pilar Cesena Marquez director of the district attorney offices for Los Cabos; Felipe Cesena Cesena direc-

This past March the newly elected Board of Directors of Los Cabos Attorneys Bar Association were

sworn into their positions by the mayor of Los Cabos, Rene Nunez, and Mr. Javier Troncoso was elected president for year 2009. Javier Troncoso is originally from Tijuana and has been practicing law permanently in Los Cabos for the past 10 years and is a partner of Bufete Troncoso, S.C. The firm was founded by his father, Javier Tron-coso, Sr. in northern Baja California in 1967. Troncoso shared with his special guests and members of the Los Cabos attorneys association his priorities for year 2009: 1) Invite licensed

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AMARONE RISTORANTE Diego Ramirez (Wednesdays solo piano) with: Vocalist Daline Jones (Fridays) cool

jazz and standards. Tel. 624-105-1034.

TWO FOR THE ROAD in Tesoro Tues through Sundays, after 6pm. Montana,

keyboard, and vocalist Kathy Daniels.

SCOOP, SUSIE “Q” BAND with Nahuel Bailo, Armando Hernandez and Pedro. Thurs and

Fri, and Sexto Sentido on Saturdays.

THE CABO WABO CANTINA, Sammy Hagar’s legendary nightclub in Cabo

San Lucas. Tel. 624-143-1188.

MAMBO CAFÉ Salsa, cumbia, merenge & disco every night

but Mondays. 10 pm-2 am.

SHALOM AT THE OFFICEJorge “Tito” Rodriguez on bass guitar with his trio and/or quartet. Daily except Thurs

7-10 p.m.

EDITHS’S RESTAURANTPedro Garcia, vocals & piano. Los Tres Romanticos Traditional Mexican music

every night 6-10 pm Tel. 143-0801.

ESPERANZAThe Roberto Blanco Trio with Vocalist Maria

Helena Julien, Tue, Fri, Sun pm KM 7

LA CASONA Restaurant (inside Villa La Estancia) Medano Beach Vocalist Wendy Tosoff, and Saturdays 10:30-2:30 Mexican

music by Luz de Luna.

BAJA CANTINA Daily 7-10 PM.Check schedule www.bajacantina.com

FIESTA HOTEL AMERICANASalon Rosatto Lounge-Restaurant.

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Showman, piano, Peter Baconnear Costco. Thurs, Fri, Sat, 7-10 pm.

PUEBLO BONITO SUNSET BEACH (La Frida)

Pianist Ricardo Ramirez; Lunda Itzel tradi-tional Mexican songs; Trio Ornelas classical

pianist Marta Lledo.

HEMINGWAY’S CIGAR & TEQUILA LOUNGE

Cuban Nights (Weds) with live entertain-ment performed by Los Trillizos. Location:

Guerrero Street, across from Cabo Wabo.

TATWANAPUEBLO BONITO PACIFICA

(world music) Wed.-Sun. 7:30 – 10 pm, & Sat. mornings at the spa 10:30 am ($15), an

interactive meditative concert. JamesDoney, percussion; Xavier Carasusan,

keyboards, Marite Sax, sax, flute, vocals.

CABO LOUNGEJorge Cu, Live Piano at the Cabo Lounge

(next to “Caliente”), Thurs, Fri, Sat. 8-11

CASA RAFAELRomantic ballads in Spanish and English

Wed-Mon. 6:30-10 pm.

HARD ROCK CAFÉRock-n-roll in English & Spanish Fri & Sat,

10-12 pm. Plaza Bonita Mall centro

ROMEO & JULIETAPianist nightly except Mon 7-10 pm

BAROMETRO

Daniel Sequeiros Wed 8-10 pm, Tango Thurs. Tel: 143-1466. On the marina front,

next to the mall.

SANDBAR Medano BeachGilberto “hill” Garcia Standards (Sinatra), 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, classic rock. Vocals and gui-

tar Mon, Wed and Fri on

VILLA EL PALMAR: Lounge Medano Beach 6-10 pm Nightly

BUDDHA LOUNGEMood music, classy crowd, on Marina Blvd

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CABO REY DINNER CRUISEDining, dancing floor show.

Call 624-143-8260 or 143-80060.

THE CORRIDOR

HOTEL MARQUISMemo Ruiz, Guitar. Jazz, romantic. Nightly

Except Mon, 7-10 p.m.

HOTEL WESTIN REGINALas Cuerdas Clasicas, Elisabeth on harp, Vic-tor on bass & Alfredo on violin. Chamber music al fresco. Everyday but Wed & Thurs,

8-11am, downstairs in La Cascada Rest.

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LOCAL 8: Sexto Sentido occasionally.

HAVANA’S SUPPER CLUB Great jazz and music. Tues-Sun. Alan “Weaver” Copeland & Mahmu Pearl; Tues,

Lucky Lenihan & the Jazz Mauraders; Wed. Baja Sways with Sheila Ross; Thurs. DePu-DeHoyos, duo violin/guitar; Rock ‘n Roll Fri. with Skeleton Key or Todd Clouser; Sat.

TROPICANA,Various performers and dance music. Cuban group Tropicana. Wed thru Sat 10 – 1 am.

Friday Dinner Show with Rosalia.

CLUB NINETY SIXMarcie Castro, vocals and piano, Thur, Fri,

Sat. Palmilla’s Beach Club.

RED Wine BarDJ, electronic and pop music. Location:

Plaza behind Mega in Hotel Zone.

BAJA BREWING COMPANY: downtown San Jose del Cabo, Tel. 146-9995.

Live music after ART WALK every Thurs-day. Daryl Currie & Julio Cesar de la Cruz.

SHOOTERS BAR AND RESTAURANT. Rockin’ across from Municipal Hall

VOILA. Fridays, Sexto Sentido with Howie Clifton,

Norma Sanchez, Paul Clade

TEMPTATIONS. RESORTTuesdays, Daline Jones & Diego Ramirez.

LA MONA, Pizza and occasional live music.

CERRITOS BEACH

Daline Jones and Diego Ramirezlive at Cerritos Beach Club on Sunday after-

noons, 2:00- 5:00 PM.

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HOTEL CALIFORNIAEvery Friday and Saturday various rock or

boogie bands. From 8 pm

For additions or corrections to this schedule, please email: [email protected]

The musician’s schedule changes frequently so please notify Destino monthly.

We apologize for printing the wrong name (Navarro) for guitarist FRANCO NARRO. Disculpe.

The 5th annual LIGA MAC JAZZ FEST, was again a smashing success!! It happened in March and fabu-lous music, food, conversation, and both Silent and Live Auctions were enjoyed by all. The incredible musical line-up began with the Mexican group Sha-lom, then local favorite, Sexto Sen-tido. The Diego Ramirez group with Daline Jones followed with their-fabulous straight ahead and “left of central” jazz pieces. The day’s head-liner was well-known Marcia Ball, on keyboard, joined by Don Ben-netto, bass, Thad Scott, Saxophone, Andrew Nafziger, guitar, and Corey Keller on Drums. The group offered the excitement of “peace, love and barbeque” style rhythm and blues!! Each year this LigaMAC event helps to insure that the money is available to support 390 students along with basic needs and medical aid they offer to families in crisis in San Jose del Cabo... over 1,400 fami-lies received aid from Liga MAC last year. To find out more about their work in the community please visit www.ligamac.com

ROCK AND ROLL REVIVALLate April at the Hard Rock, a U2 revival band rocked the house for charity, and the next night Baja Can-tina on Medano Beach hosted another band full of “known” musicians from past bands like Steely Dan and Dire Straits. Coupled with a golf tourna-ment, these music events enjoyed by hundreds in the community, raised significant funds for local boys home Casa Hogar, and other local charities. For more information on donating to these worthy charities go to: www.casahogar.org.

MUSIC EVENTSfor CHARITY

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Stand on the sand between the Sea of Cortez and the San Jose Del Cabo estuary and feel

the magic of this place. Whales are jumping and frolicking offshore. Sea birds unwind and cavort in the lagoon. Local Mexican families enjoy a lunch and fish in the fresh water. Waves from the sea crash, majestic mountains of the Sierra Madres rise, kayakers paddle. My dog is so filled with energy for the moment that she runs up and down the beach, bursting with excitement, not able to contain herself. I feel it too. Head on down to the San Jose Del Cabo estuary and feel it for yourself. The San Jose Estuary is a marshy lagoon covering roughly two thou-sand acres at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. The surrounding land is desert, and a narrow finger of white sand separates the estuary from the Sea of Cortez on the south. The estuary is fed by an underground river, the Rio San Jose, which flows from the nearby Sierra

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Madre Mountains. The estuary is the largest body of fresh water in southern Baja. For more than 250 years it has provided drinking and irrigation water for the town of San Jose del Cabo, founded on the estuary banks by Spanish Jesu-its in 1730. The San Jose mission was established relatively late in Baja’s early colonial history, because the local Pericú Indians were even more fierce than the mosquitoes that soon forced the settlement into the nearby hills. Before the mission was established, the estuary provided a rare source of drinking water for Spanish sailors and explorers and for British and Dutch pirates who preyed on Spanish gal-leons shipping gold and silver from Acapulco to the Philippines. Earlier, the estuary supported the Pericús and their ancestors for thousands of years. Today the Estuary is protected by Mexican law as a natural preserve and sanctuary for hundreds of species of

tropical and migratory birds, and for many species of marine life, amphib-ians, reptiles, mammals and insects. Fortunately, our local government has been cleaning up our estuary as of late. The California Least Turns are coming for their yearly anticipated visit as this article goes to print.The next time you feel like a walk or trying something new, park your car near the El Presidente hotel at the east end of the hotel zone and walk the lagoon-side path to town, or vice versa. Make sure to also walk out to the sand bar between the ocean and the estuary and you will feel suspended between two worlds. Borrow or rent a sea kayak and spend the day exploring the lush wildlife-filled aquatic world. As I marvel at the goings-on of the lagoon life, a group of tourists passes on horseback, smiles of wonder. Their leader, a Mexican caballero, says about the estuary, “Esta mejo-rando, por que estan limpiando, poco a poquito.” The estuary is getting better, because they are clearing it up, little by little. Let’s show support for the estuary by enjoying it and preserving it. It is essential to our life here in the tip of the Baja peninsula.Here is a list of some birds found in the estuary: Magnificent Frigate Bird, Brown Pelican, American Coot, Common Moorhen, Double-crested Cormorant, Brandt’s Cormorant, Western Grebe, Green Heron, Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Cinnamon Teal (duck), Kildeer, Black-necked Stilt, Belted Kingfisher, Heermann’s Gull, California Gull, Turkey Vulture, Crested Carcara, Osprey, Red-tailed Hawk, American Kestrel. WOW! Spread the word.

Kline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see rev-enue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread. Where did this mysterious new animal-human flu strain come from? Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? If not, who made it, and how was it released? Currently, the antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza are the only drugs that appear effective. The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when com-bined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it’s called “reassortment,” and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak -- the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory. Should you accept a flu vaccine -Just to be safe? Scientists have no idea whether the current seasonal flu vaccine can offer protection against a never-before- seen strain. For now, there are always going to be threats of flu pandemics but you can break free of the whole drug-solu-tion trap by following some natural health principles: • Optimize your vitamin D.• Avoid Processed Sugar that weakens immune system. • Get Enough Rest. • Have effective tools to deal with immune weakening stress. • Exercise, which increases circulation and blood flow. • Take a good source of animal based omega-3 fats like Krill Oil. • Wash Your Hands. • Eat Garlic Regularly. • Avoid Hospitals and Vaccines.

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GALERIA DE IDA VICTORIATouted by the local press as “the finest gal-lery south of Los Angeles,” showcases established and emerging contemporary art-ists from Mexico and around the world. Ph.

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THE LOS CABOS AMBERGALLERY AND FINE ART

Annex sells exquisite, one-of-a-kind, jewelry and sculptures made from 22-25 million year old, 100% natural undertreated Chiapas

amber. Ph. (624) 105-2332

LA DOLCE GALLERIA D’ARTELocated in the heart of SJC in the Plaza Jardin Mijares. Owner and artist Alejandrina Calderoni displays her work among national and international artists where diverse styles, textures and colors are combined. Open

Tuesday - Sunday 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm.Ph. (624)142-6621 Cell ph. (624)145-2378

EL ARMARIOMexican folk art & coffee patio

El Armario, “The cutest shop in town”, has an eclectic collection of high quality Mexican Folk Art and handicrafts. El Armario recently opened a beautiful coffe patio that serves the

finest Mexican blend. Ph. (624) 105-2989

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tuna tartar, a blend with avocados and more…yuumm a favorite at the restaurant. The fresh white fish of the day presented with one of his fusion sauces of sesame & chili oil with soy sauce and more, offered the best of fish flavors. The crab tostadas are worth stopping for any time of day or night. His mini-scallops in tequila fusion sauce were so tasty and unique bringing out the best scallop flavors. Cabo Surf Hotel owner Mauricio Balderamma encourages his four chefs to be creative, and likes to change the menu every month to use the freshest ingredients available. Alejandro carries out this challenge with excitement, encouraging all of his staff to try new things all the time. His team creativity approach presents consistent good quality for all who discover the Seven Seas Res-taurant.

Delightful discoveries all around Los Cabos are the boutique restaurants and hotels. Located

on the 4-lane under the sharp curves of the mountain leading to Costa Azul surfing beach you’ll discover the 22-room Cabo Surf Hotel and it’s Seven Seas Restaurant. Overlooking the beach and the ocean surf waves, with linen tablecloths, this open air restaurant space is inviting and com-fortable and even more….the food is exceptional! Leading the kitchen action that produces a “fusion of flavors” is head chef Alejandro Rodri-guez Ponce. What does he like best about his position? “COOKING”! He exclaims. The rest of it…buying the food, managing the budgets, sharing ideas with the other three talented chefs on his staff, the typical behind the scenes activities that make any business a success, play a far second place to “cooking” for Alejandro. Originally from the resort area Manzanillo in the Mexican State of Colima, Alejandro comes from a fam-ily of chefs. He started his training in the hotels of the area, and moved to Los Cabos to be the first chef at long time San José favorite, Tequilas restaurant. This is where he started to develop his own style. What is his specialty? “FISH”! Smiles Alejandro. Then he proceeded to show off his talent with seafood. First served was

SEAFOOD FUSIONA culinary experience at the Seven Seas Restaurant

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tor of Regulations and Legislation ofthe city government of Los Cabos; Ruben Alejo Arechiga Espinoza representing the notary public asso-ciation; Mr. Gamil Arreola president of the federal notary public associa-tion; Mr. Alfonso Cota president of the architects association; Mr. Alvaro Javier Ramirez president of the engi-neers association; Mario Valdez rep-resenting the appraisers association; Roberto Castaneda representing the certified public accountants asso-ciation; Alfonso Vazquez president of the restaurant association; Roberto Chavez president of the industrial association. Their first assembly took place on March 26. Mr. Luis Sevilla, President of the labor courts in Los Cabos and Mr. Roberto Chavez President of the Industrial Association were invited as special guests and they spoke of the different needs that the labor court

has in order to be more efficient in resolving cases quicker. The Bar Association formed a labor commis-sion comprised of members of the association in order to reinforce the labor petitions before the governor’s and secretary of state offices. Finally, Mr. Genaro Gongora, a jus-tice of the Supreme Court in Mexico City, has accepted the invitation to come to Los Cabos to lecture at a conference concerning relevant con-stitutional law matters. For further information about the association’s meeting schedule and membership contact Troncoso at email: [email protected] or call (624) 142-4435.



Las Villas de Mexico has added a Yacht Club to the list of out-standing amenities, in time for

the opening of their first model home at Club Campestre. Add it to the list of the Whole-in-One Golf Program, Beach Club, Casa Care Program, Si Concierge, and Open Door Program. The fleet will include a 40 foot class fishing vessel, a 50 foot class power yacht, and a 40 foot class sailboat. The vessels will be docked at the Puerto Los Cabos Marina, which is in close proximity to the LVdM development at Club Camp-estre, the Nicklaus Design Golf Community. This optional amenity is designed for those who enjoy the yachting life-style, but do not want the hassle or expense of owning a vessel. At a fraction of the cost, this equity mem-bership provides members 10 days on the vessels of their choice and three very different experiences. The equity membership which is owned in per-petuity, can be sold, willed, or held, even after the sale of their LVdM real estate. Vessels come complete with captain, crew, and equipment. You, your family and friends can sit back and enjoy or lend a hand with hoist-ing sails or tightening the lines. Of course, overnight trips can be scheduled because it is your vessel 10 days of the year. Share your days with neighbors and double your time on the water. The cost of the memberships are as enticing as exploring the Sea or Cor-tez or taking a trip down to Puerto Vallarta for the weekend.Note: Model home at Las Villas de Mexico Club Campestre is now open from 10:00-5:00 daily.

Las Fiestas deSan José 2009

Las Villas de Mexico Joins Yacht Club

Every March San José celebrates the town’s founding with food,

music, theatre and events every night. It’s a town affair, and families travel from near and far to enjoy the ethnic foods prepared using recipes from through-out Mexico. The streets are closed, vendors sleep in their trucks, children enjoy the arcade and rides and great fun is had by thousands.



After spending the afternoon sampling beers at our local brewery in San José I decided

to speak with the brewer and find out exactly what I was drinking. When I asked Jordan, co-founder and brewer, what is in this stuff, I got a long answer.

There are four basic ingredients in beer: barley, water, hops, and yeast. Barley is transformed into malt by steeping the grains in water and allowing them to germinate. This process allows the brewer to convert

the starch to sugar. Barley that has been malted for a longer time at higher temperatures is darker and will add different colors and flavors to the beer.

Hop vines grow in cooler climates and the green flower is harvested almost exclusively for the produc-tion of beer. Hops provide bitter-ness, aroma and flavor to the finished product. Other raw materials can also be used to replace part of the malt to impart unique characteristics. “At the Baja Brewing Company we produce a wheat beer called “cactus wheat” that consists of half barley and half wheat” says Jordan. “We also have a seasonal oatmeal stout, in which oat-meal makes up about twenty percent of the grist.”

So what is the process to make

beer? It all begins with the malt being crushed into a coarse powder called a grist. The grist is transferred to the mash tun where it is mixed with hot water. This dissolves the starch and allows the enzymes in the malt to convert the starch to sugars.

When this process is complete the sugary liquid or wort is separated from the grain residue. The wort is transferred to a kettle where it is boiled and the hops are added. Hops are added at the start of the boil to provide bitterness and near the end of the boil to add aroma and flavor. After boiling, the wort is transferred to a whirlpool which uses a high speed swirling effect to remove the unwanted solids. It is then cooled through a heat exchanger and sent to a fermentation vessel where the yeast is added.

During fermentation, the yeast converts the sugars to alcohol and carbon dioxide in temperature con-trolled tanks. Jordan showed me his “laboratory” which consisted of a bunch of test tubes and measur-ing devices which he uses to test the liquid during various stages of the brewing process.

I was curious how long it takes to make a beer and found out that fermentation for a lager style beer (like Corona) will take around six weeks and an ale beer (like Peliroja) will take about half that amount of time. After fermentation some of the beers will be filtered to create a brilliant clear color and others will remain unfiltered so as to retain more character and body. The beer at the BBC is served directly from the serv-ing tanks via a chilled beer line that goes all the way from the brewery to the bar. For customers who want to take the beer with them it is put into kegs and stored in a cold room.

By the time the tour was over I was parched, so I saddled back up to the bar and ordered a nice cold Cabotella.

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The activity of roasted meat, is the one that best reflects the culinary virtues of man in any state in the

north. From the moment that her hus-band volunteered to cook, it triggers the following sequence of events: 1. The man takes out the grill.2. The women clean the grill. 3. The woman goes to the market and buy tortillas, meat, fixings. 4. The woman prepares the sauces and guacamole. 5. The woman prepares the meat for roasting. 6 The women puts on a plate all the necessary utensils and condiments.7, The women carries the meat dish to man, but it lies next to the grill while Man takes a beer biéeen helada.8. The man places meat on the grill. 9. The woman fries the beans. 10. The woman makes the salad. 11. The woman prepares dessert.12. The man takes the meat from the

grill carefully and gives it to woman. 13. The woman sets the table, cuts the meat, places the platter of meat, beans, salsa, guacamole, warm torti-llas, salad on the table. 14. Everybody eats.15. He is served another beer, which is then máaas helada. 16. The women clears the dishes, glasses, cutlery, cleans the table and grounds and prepares the coffee.17. The woman serves coffee and dessert.18. The woman clears the table. 19. The woman washes the dishes20. The man leaves the grill in the garden with the burning embers, 21. The man asks the woman if she enjoyed not having to cook today.22. When she grimaces with disdain, he concludes that women are never satisfied. ¡¡¡... CHES VIEJAS MALAGRADECIDAS!

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Good music continues to rock the tip of our Baja peninsula and who better to croon in

the balmy wind and sunshine of San Jose Del Cabo than one of the origi-nal founding members of The Beach Boys himself, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Al Jardine. Remember the classic song “Help Me Rhonda”? That lead voice is Al Jardine. Al now tours with his Endless Summer Band con-taining many of the stage musicians who toured with The Beach Boys, including Billy Hinsche of Dino, Desi and Billy, Ed Carter, Bobby Figueroa, and Jardine’s son Matt Jardine, who sang with the Beach Boys during much of their later career. They were all onstage in San Jose’s historic downtown square. Eight musicians played and sung harmonies on this sunny summery day in early March. Palm trees were blowing in the breeze and the clothes of the musicians along with them. People were pulling up chairs under the shade of overhangs of sur-rounding businesses. A dance floor

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Rock San Joséby Marshall Ellingson

Carlitos. I had the pleasure of chatting with Ray Thomas, the engine behind it all, while we were onstage listening to Al Jardine. He told me how Los Cabos has to know that there are plenty of services to support. For example: a blood bank, 3000 local kids in sports, feeding 250 kids/day in La Paz, one kitchen in San Jose and one in Cabo to feed 600 kids, a need for volunteer coaches for baseball and soccer. You can donate 2000 pesos/year to spon-sor a sports team with your name or business on banners at events and you can go and watch the team play, 48 sports teams consisting of equal boys and girls, or give $2 per week to feed a kid with 11 different menus to choose from, there’s also an anti-graffiti program with the assistance of our mayor to show kids a different way and the kids must participate in anti-graffiti to be able to qualify to play in sports. Ray’s organization, Grupo Appoyo, has been here in Los Cabos for 20 years. We can all expect more free concerts with all kinds of music to let people know what is happening here in Los Cabos and the Los Cabos Children’s Foundation.

was set up by the stage and there was plenty of true joy on faces as 500 revelers shaked and grooved to classic summer-fun songs. Kids were dancing with adults of all ages, both Mexicans and foreigners. Al Jardine and his Endless Summer Band played all the Beach Boys classics as a true blast from the past blew into San Jose Del Cabo to the delight of those of us clever enough to have been in attendance. “Surfin’ USA” was the big encore as a girl got up onstage and hula hooped to the delight of the crowd. The true beneficiaries of this concert were the kids of Los Cabos and the programs provided by the Los Cabos Children’s Foundation umbrella group of charities (www.loscaboschildren.org) whose mis-sion is to provide medical, educa-tional and humanitarian assistance to the children, their families and supportive organizations of the Los Cabos area. Supporting organiza-tions include: Amigos de los Niños, Liga MAC, DIF Los Cabos, Mobilize Mankind, San Jose Fire Fighters, Sisters of Holy Trinity Hospitals, San Jose Mexican Red Cross, Red Autismo, Santa Josefina Blood Bank, San Juan Diego Shelter and Casa De

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The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along

the U.S. border, by any reasonable standard of an analysis of the facts, appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sec-tor arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars, and sanctioned by the US State Department. These deadly trade commodities — grenade launchers, explosives and “assault” weapons —are being corruptly trans-ferred to drug trafficking organiza-tions via their reach into the Mexican military and law enforcement agen-cies, the evidence indicates. The NY Times characterizes the drug trade as a form of contagion that is spreading from Mexico. This attitude comes off as barely veiled racism when it speaks of violence “spilling over” from Mexico and sug-gesting that Mexicans are importing methods of violence that US (white) people never would have thought of. Fact is, the drug trade is a trans-national commodity chain that links consumers in the U.S. with a pyramid of distributors, processors, financiers, and growers. In that sense, the vio-

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lence is a product of the trade itself, not a disease vector from Mexico. Drug transshipment is a 35 billion dollar a year business in Mexico, but it’s estimated to be a 70 billion dollar a year retail industry in the US. Do we really think that all the people profiting from this trade are colorful (and brown) cartel leaders walking around with Tec-9 pistols in their coats? Think about it. You can’t move that kind of cash without bankers, real estate agents, trucking firms, lawyers, bureaucrats, cops, border patrol agents, etc help-ing out at every stage of the game. What about the crack trade that peaked in violence in the early 1990s? At that point, the U.S. had 24,000 murders a year, and Mexico less than 8,000, but no one ever wor-ried that US violence would “infect” Mexico.. When Rep. Maxine Waters led an investigation of a news story that turned out to be true that the CIA had been involved in introduc-ing crack to U.S. consumers to fund their illegal wars in Central America, she was painted as an anti-patriotic extremist.



ful pieces or ask about her custom creations. The gallery is called “Luz y Transparencia” , open Mon-Sat.

ALEGRIAGreat new restaurant opened at the condo project Alegranza by Span-

ish developers Javier Noguera, Iban Garcia San-Juan and Enrique Iglesias (above at the grand opening). Alegria is a Nick San project offering alterna-tive eats, entertainment, a deli and fun, in a neighborly ambiance with affordable prices.

Transform Yourself WithYour Breath

Learn how to get more oxygen, life energy and power into your life through a simple breath technique

called Transformational Breath. Robin Clements teaches this safe, fun and effective technique Wednesday and Friday nights 7 pm at Raices y Brazos Center for Integral Evolution located in the Chamizal neighbor-hood up from The Hangman restau-rant. www.raicesybrazos.com

ASTRONOMYExperience an unforgettable, memo-rable outdoor experience Astronomy events are for you, for all ages, not experience is necessary. Certified Naturalist will guide you along the sky and interpret the universe. The largest telescopes in Los Cabos. Information and Reservations:Maria Elena Muriel y/o Julio Cesar Mendez; cel. (624) 122- 3863 [email protected]

HUGE New Cactus Garden at Puerto Los Cabos

His name is Jose yet he is known as “El Austriaco”, the Austrian. If you’ve had the pleasure of touring Cacti Mundo (Cactus World) in San Jose Del Cabo that he completed in 2002 then you’ve had a taste of what you can expect at his latest developing creation called “La Wirkuta” at Puerto Los Cabos. Originally from Austria, Jose has spent 40 years collecting cac-tus and 20 years living in Mexico. La Wirkuta is a name from the Huichol Indians from the Mexican state of Nayarit. It is the name given for the time when they go to search for and cut peyote for their ceremo-nies. Huicholes make the fantastically colorful beaded art that is influenced by their experiences with the peyote cactus.

heading towards downtown called El Pericue, named for the original indig-enous people of Baja. For Victor, this gallery is an invitation to our local artists to display their photography, music, sculpture, movies, exhibitions and poetry.

Old VandidoOne of the few rooftop patios has re-opened with the original owners teaming up with local surfer “Rojo”. For a fantastic view of downtown San Jose and the estuary, head-on-up for cup and a bite.

La Choya BurgerLooking for a place to grab a bite while walking our historic Art District? Check out “La Choya Burger”, recently opened by local surfer Pedro Salas.. There is a lovely patio to kick-back in and enjoy your meal.

Liga MAC Jazz Fest

This annual event, the fifth year run-ning, was again a huge success for local charity Liga MAC sponsored by Dream Homes of Cabo. The headliner was 2009 Grammy nominee Marcia Ball. Also onstage were local jazz sen-sation Daline Jones and that rocking Cuban band from the Tropicana.

New stained-glass galleryLuz Maria Covarrubias, a stained-glass artist, opened her own work-shop and gallery downtown just up from Bancomer. Drop by to watch her work and buy one of her beauti-

There are currently over 1500 dif-ferent species of cactus and there will be over 2500 when completed. All cacti were grown from seed. These cacti will be used for landscaping Puerto Los Cabos and the site will be available for tours, to rent for events such as weddings and private func-tions and to educate our community and visitors about the wonders of the cactus world. The park is not officially open yet but the public can come in and enjoy the grounds. There currently are no entry fees as services are not yet ready. Soon there will be bathrooms, a Tequila testing area, artisan shops and educational tours and information about cacti. Another cool addition to look forward to is a walking labyrinth of cactus in the style of a labyrinth done by the Hopi Indians and discovered in 1629 near the border between Arizona and New Mexico. The labyrinth will be 40 meters in diameter and 800 meters long to walk (about ½ a mile).

El Pericue Gallery opensWell known local photographer Vic-tor Paz has opened a new gallery two blocks from the Central Market

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You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you

must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things

to be considered:

Where are you living?

What are you doing?

What are your relationships?Are you in right relations?

Where is your water?Know your garden.

It is time to speak your Truth.

Create your community.Be good to each other.

Do not look outside yourself for the leader.

This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing nowvery fast.

It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.

They will try to hold on to the shore.

They will feel they are beingtorn apart, and they will

suffer greatly.

Know the river has itsdestination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the

middle of the river.

Keep our eyes open and our heads above the water.

See who is in there with you

And celebrate.

At this time in history we are to take nothing personally.

Least of all, ourselves.

For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey

comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves!

Banish the word “struggle” from your attitude and your

vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in

celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

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Pro Peninsula Conserving Natural Environments by Nanette Hayles

Pro Peninsula (PP) is an organi-zation working to protect the threatened natural environ-

ment of the Baja Peninsula, including the oceans, beaches, mountains and desert areas. Pro Peninsula’s objective is to advocate and promote ways that effectively protect the Baja environ-ment and at the same time assist in learning alternate ways of living. We can co-exist and learn to be more environmentally correct. They host a Natural World Heritage site, three biosphere reserves, nine national protected areas, turtle habi-tats and gray whale nurseries. The current environmental threats to this region include industrial develop-ment (proposed liquid gas plants), the Escalera Nautica project in the Sea of Cortez, tourism development, over-fishing, exploitation of water resources and understaffing and underfunding of protected areas. Pro Peninsula is dedicated to resolving these problems as well as creating and promoting educational opportunities so all can participate in respecting, protecting and living in balance with nature. Working on both sides of the border, PP receives most of it’s funding from the United States government, private donations and Mexican donations. They also-cooperate with official Mexican environmental agencies such as PROFEPA, SEMARNAP and often collaborate with other groups. An example of Pro Peninsula’s joint efforts was their aid in forming the Mexican turtle protection organiza-tion Grupo Tortugero. Some of the current problems that Pro Peninsula is actively addressing throughout the Baja Penminsula:

AQUACULTURE: Shrimp and blue fin tuna farms are destroying coastal ecology with pollution, destruction of natural environments and habitats, as well as the rise of invasive viral dis-eases. Areas most threatened are the Baja Peninsula, the Gulf of California and the coastal areas in the states of Sonora and Sinaloa on the mainland of Mexico. Farming in these areas, along with a increase in consumer demand for seafood, are destroying these delicate regionsquickly.SAN DIEGO/TIJUANA REGION: The problems here are a result of the population growth surge and a lack of environmental policy, which is combined with serious issues in water quality and supply, waste water treatment, solid waste disposal and energy. HUMAN TOURISM: is often tough on the environment. Coastal devel-opment has already caused damage to estuaries, mangroves, dunes and fresh water lagoons. ANIMAL TOURISM: In extremely fragile environments such as the Sea of Cortez islands, the introduction of mammal species (cats, rats and goats) have already destroyed vari-ous marine birds, island reptiles and plants. There are species specific only to these bio evolution isolated areas. ESCALERA NAUTICA: This project was conceived in the 1970’s by a panel of international investors in an effort to build up Baja California’s trans-portation capabilities, by improving the existing ports and airports and building additional ones as needed, in order to promote mass scale tour-ism. This expansion also includes golf courses, roads and highways. ENERGY DEVELOPMENT: One of the huge problems that Pro Penin-

sula addresses is energy devel-opment. This is a daunting task, which includes negotiating and working with Royal Dutch Shell Group, El Paso Corpora-tion, Marathon Oil and Sempra Energy. OVER-FISHING: Industrial shrimp trawling extracts an average of 10 kilos of by-catch for every 1 kilo of shrimp. Damage to the Pacific and Gulf sea floor and coasts is irrepa-rable. TOXICS & TRASH: Baja Califor-nia has literally become a “dumping ground” for Southern California’s unwanted items. “Dumped” items such as used tires, refrigerators and cars are being shipped to Mexico for “re-use”. They soon find theirway into gullies, ravines and other environ-mentally sensitive areas only to cause health, fire and visual pollution. Also the relocation of Los Ange-les’ furniture industry to Tijuana where toxic glues and other solvents are usually used, contribute to the destruction of air quality and cause contamination to land and water, not to mention health danger to humans working with such chemicals. In addition, cruise ships originaing in the United States contribute to the trash and environmental destruction of the sea and coastlines. More in depth information con-cerning these briefly addressed topics is available on Pro Peninsula’s web site.; www.propeninsula.org. Pro Peninsula has a strong, well qualified staff of dedicated environ-mentalists who with their respective areas of expertise contribute to a functioning whole. They’re unified in educating, connecting and facilitating ways to engage all the inhabitants in this uniquely rich and incredible Baja Peninsula environment to co-exist in the best way possible. The Pro Peninsula executives include: Kama Dean, Executive Director, Chris Pesenti, Director of Programs, Jeannel King, Director of Finances and Operations. Giuliana Schroeder, Communications and Marketing Manager and Hoyt Peck-ham, Field Research Director.

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Jesús León SantosIndigenous Ecological Saviorby Mariano Arias-Diez, Architect

In the world of Chemistry, Litera-ture, Peace and Economy the most famous prize is the Nobel Prize.

In terms of Ecology its equivalent is the Goldman Prize, created in 1990 by Richard and Rhoda Goldman, awarded April each year in San Fran-cisco, California to winners selected from all regions of the world. In 2008 among the winners there was Jesús León Santos, a Mexican indigenous farmer from Oaxaca. He was honored with this distinction because of his vision and how he made it come true. When he was 18 years old, he decided to change the landscape of “la tierra del sol” (land of the sun), where he lived at High Mixteca. The place resembled a lunar landscape: dusty and dry plots of land, not a tree in sight, no water and no fruit. Its inhabitants had to walk long distances in order to get drinkable water and firewood. Almost every young local emigrated and never came back, fleeing from such a depressing landscape and such a tough life.

Jesús León dreamed of making his hometown a green place, with plenty of fertile, arable land, trees and crops. To accomplish such a task he went back to traditional techniques learned from some Guatemalan peasants, who were able to convert arid soil into fertile land. As part of this effort, he revived another indigenous system, “el tequio”, unpaid community labor. In order to realize his vision, Jesus, with the help of 400 families from 12 municipalities founded The Mixteca Center for Integral Farming Devel-opment (CEDICAM) Through this cooperative organization, and scarecly any economic resources, they started to collect fertilizer, plant trees, and dig ditches to retain rain water. After some time, the group had successfully planted around 4 million trees (all native species acclimatized to heat). The next step was to create food and agriculture self-sustainability, and for this they developed an organic and sustainable agriculture system, with-out the use of pesticides, thanks to

the rescue and conservation of native seeds of Maíz, a cereal original from this region. After 25 years, a miracle has hap-pened. Today, the High Mixteca has been restored. It is green again. There are water springs, trees and food, and – maybe one of the most impor-tant aspect of this environmental and social regeneration - the young people don’t emigrate anymore. Also, some traditions, which were about to be lost, have re-emerged, like the manufacturing of handcrafted tools for daily use. As I write these lines, the group (with Jesus commanding the efforts) is in a constant war against transgenic (GM) products…seeds made by the genetic engineering of different spe-

cies and they plant an average of 200 thousand trees per year in their fight against the desertification of the area. The example of Jesús León Santos is now being imitated by several neigh-boring communities, which have also created communitarian nurseries, and are organizing massive plantings. More important than the economic retribution of the Goldman Prize, is the chance to make public, accessible and known to the world, the story of this Mexican farmer, who with very limited resources but a huge force of will, brought prosperity to his region and reversed the disastrous conditions in which they used to live. Jesus’ success has led to interest from other regions and countries. He has shared his knowledge in water conservation, anti-erosion techniques and sustainable agriculture at forums throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as at vari-ous universities and events in the US. In a world where too frequently the news is negative and depress-ing, this story is remarkable and an opportunity to show a positive leader of humanity.

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Masdar is the name of a new sustainable super-city being developed by Abu

Dhabi. In Arabic, Masdar means “the source”, and the Masdar Ini-tiative aims to become the leading source of the world’s future energy solutions. It recently announced that it is building the largest grid-connected solar plant in the Middle East. The 10 MW solar plant will be half thin-film and half crystalline silicon photovol-taic, with 5 MW of thin film solar panels being provided by Arizona-based First Solar. The Masdar solar power plant is expected to reduce emissions of 15,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually and cost around $50 million USD. The city, to be built on an area of six square kilometers on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, has been designed by British firm Foster + Partners, and aims to be the world’s most sustain-able city. A development envisioned as zero-waste, car-free, and carbon neutral. The city will be walled on all sides, and house 50,000 people and 1,500 businesses. Buildings will be cooled by wind towers and solar power will be an essential resource for the city, as the sun will also power their Rapid Transit System. The new power plant will support ongoing construction activities and later will provide energy for the Mas-dar Institute, which is expected to open in late 2009. Any excess power from the plant will be fed into the Abu Dhabi electric grid. Construc-tion for the new power plant is under way and it is expected to start gener-ating energy by the second quarter of 2009. Masdar City is poised to become the world’s most sustainable, zero-waste, car-free, carbon neutral city. The model for the city was formally unveiled at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi and has received attention, viewing and sup-port from the likes of General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company and even ex-President George W. Bush. In its planning, the city will use ancient urban design rules to make it more efficient. For example it will

be oriented north-east to south-west to ensure optimum balance of sun-light and shade. There will be no cars zooming around the city, residents will go to and fro via trains and “auto-mated transport pods”. There will be three levels for movement for the city which will include a light rail-way between Masdar to Abu Dhabi, a second level for pedestrians, and a third for “personalized rapid transport pods.” “You will program what sta-tion you want to go to, and [the pod vehicle] will take you directly to that station… If you look at movies like Blade Runner that we had 15 years ago, it’s really bringing that to the forefront now,” says Scott McGuigan of CH2M Hill, the construction firm that’s building Masdar City. The pod vehicles are set to run beneath the city like a subway minus the track, creating an above-ground infrastructure that is pedestrian-friendly and free from gridlock. Ease and efficiency are key features, since the programmable vehicles can take you anywhere you need to go, and energy won’t be expended running multiple railways on off-peak hours. Roughly 1,500 stations are planned, so none of the city’s inhabitants will be more than 200 meters from the nearest public transportation link. Systems will encourage re-use and minimal outside resources, and 99% of the waste generated in the city re-used, or composted, and all waste-water will be processed as well with solar energy desalination systems. Hopefully in Baja California the use of alternative – solar - energy becomes more popular, with gov-ernment enhanced initiatives or gated developments allowing the use of solar panels. Currently most of developments don’t allow usage of solar panels due to “aesthetical regulations”. Baja is one of the best locations for the use of solar energy in the world, and it is free!

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MASDARby Mariano Arias-Diez,Architect



BCS Senator Luis Coppola (left), Jose Garcia Sr., Padre Arturo Garcia and Cabo Mayor Ernesto Ibarra (right) joined Jose Garcia Jr. (red shirt) and friends and family to bless the opening of his newest business Puros, Vinos, & Tequilas which is located by the cruise ship pier in the new Embarcadero Plaza on the Cabo marina.

The laid-back lifestyle of Los Cabos is what so many people love about this place. Here, it seems

siestas last a bit longer and even the sun takes its sweet time setting. On any given day, the hands of the clock can be heard ticking by, and while it´s often nice to live in the land where everything can be, and usually is, put off until tomorrow, for the youth in the area, this kind of thinking leaves them with few options for extracur-ricular activities. Unlike youngsters in other places, kids in Los Cabos don´t have access after school to many organized sports, music programs, or avenues for creative expression, espe-cially those with limited resources. Luckily, local American musician Todd Clouser is busy thinking of ways to improve this for a handful of kids and has started a ball rolling, with the generous support of several local businesses and organizations. As a professional musician from the Berklee College of Music in Bos-ton, Todd recognizes the importance of the arts, especially at a young age, and working as the music teacher at San José´s Colegio Mission for more than two years, he saw in his students the talent and desire to learn but real-ized what little opportunity the kids had to showcase their talent outside of school. This lead Todd to create the first Arts Day Out on January 31st, with four additional events planned throughout the year to help celebrate and inspire Los Cabos´ talented youth. The inau-gural event, held at the beautiful Las Tiendas de Palmilla plaza, was free to

ARTS DAY OUTby Kirstin Frieze

everyone who and was composed of a music concert, with performances by students ranging in age from six to eighteen, playing on professional equipment. In addition, an informal drum workshop, face painting booth for the kids, ceramic pottery and a mural painting area, and even some dance lessons rounded out this fun-filled day for friends, families, and many proud students. Children and parents alike enjoyed seeing all of the creativity that found its way to the event, and all while savoring the tasty, and complimen-tary, food provided by Tez´s Catering. Other people helping Todd to get this project off the ground were Dana Lieb, artist and owner of Pez Gordo Galleries, and Liga MAC, a non-profit organization helping the impover-ished in San José. Liga MAC´s choir provided entertainment as well, sing-ing a few popular Spanish pop songs. More than a day to simply showcase the work of Todd´s students, Arts Day Out is designed to include as many kids, from as varied a background as possible, and allow them to interact with other likeminded youth.www.artsdayout.com.

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The 9th Annual Shakespeare “Comedy of Errors” presented in Los Barilles on March 26-29

at Rancho Buena Vista was deemed by many to be the best one ever! Produced by Kim Scholefield and directed by Bob & Leslie Currier of Marin, the Shakespeare romp was presented “Texas Style”, complete with cowboys and saloon girls, drawls and spittin’, singin’ and dancin’, and non-stop mad-cap fun. Comedy of

Comedy of ErrorsA Smash Hit!by Ron Weber

Breast Cancer Awareness Walkby Kirstin Frieze

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Errors entails a story of one-half of 2 sets of twins who are separated by a shipwreck at an early age, and later in life, go in search of their brothers. All 4 brothers and the townspeople of Abeline embark on a farce of mistaken identities and wacky situ-

ations. Ron Weber and Mike Novak played the “Antipholus” twins, and Kim Scholefield and Rebecca Cross the Mexican “Dromio” twins. Roxie Rosenblatt (Adriana) mistakes one twin for her husband, and her sister, Camilla Ford (Luciana) falls in love with him, too! Fantastic perfor-mances by the local celebrities of Los Barilles playing the townspeople had the audience in stitches!

The show played to full houses each night and the proceeds go to benefit local charities. Don’t miss next year’s production, as it looks to be another laugh riot encompassing a play within a play!

Breast cancer. You´ll be very hard pressed to find a woman who has not either been afflicted

herself or known someone who has. Sadly, this horrible “c word” is every-where, and for the staff at Colegio Amaranto, a local private school, this was all too evident when three, that´s right, three women on the staff were recently diagnosed with breast cancer within a six week period of time. Ranging in age from forty to fifty, these three women are all great sources of energy and enthusiasm and are currently undergoing treatment.

Interspersed with a great feeling of shock was an enormous sense of urgency on the part of friends, fam-ily members, and co-workers to help these three strong and dynamic women spread the word about the dangers of cancer and the importance of breast exams and early detection. With this goal in mind, in addition to helping two of the women cover

travel and medical costs associated with chemotherapy treatments in Mexico City, a group of girl friends Amigas de Los Cabos, organized a breast cancer awareness walk on Sun-day, March 1st. Tickets sold for just fifty pesos each, which included a T-shirt and water. Hundreds of partici-pants, including two of the Amaranto

women themselves, men, women, children, and even dogs, all clad in the symbolic pink and white, met in the Walmart parking lot to march in support of the women who have had to battle breast cancer. After the walk was completed, raffle prizes were given away and breast cancer survi-vors gathered for a beautiful photo.

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EL GRINGO y EL CAPITANby John Ambrose

Editor note: We left our last story with El Gringo driving into Todos Santos to bring Sue home...

As he drove through town everyone went outside to gawk at the fancy truck and

the shiny tin boat, El Gringo home again and with that, Gringa! There were whistles and catcalls from the men and the kids all came running after them as they pulled up to his little place. Curtains pulled aside as the women clucked over El Gringos “mujeriego” reputation. Another wolf! Thank God he was leaving their daughters alone! “El Gringo! El Gringo”, screamed the kids as they jumped all over the truck and stuck their hands in the window. Quite a few had climbed aboard the little boat and were tus-sling over who got to be El Capi-tan. Sue’s icy temper melted and she started handing out candy. The magic feelings that she’d felt before left no room for spats. She remem-bered what her spiritual mentor had said - the road of love is like a razor’s edge,, there’s no room for love and

pride with ego blocking the way. One or the other, it’s up to you. Want to be right, or content? Finally after shooing all the kids away, he backed the boat into the yard and was pleasantly surprised at how well kept it was. El Capitan and his family had really done a great job! He killed the motor. Casually took her hand, kissed it. “Still amigos”?Sue made a mock show of flipping her hair out of her eyes, pouted, then leaned over and gave him a little kiss. Her anger had melted in a flash just at the memory of the razor’s edge idea. Did she want to be right? Or happy with love? Still he would not get off the hook so quick. Boundary setting. Little lies won’t fly. Then she flinched inwardly, she’d not been exactly perfect either in the with-holding department. But damn it! Why did she always go for the frea-kin thrill seekers? Hated to admit it, but she was glad he’d not mentioned it until now. “Jaws” be damned, she would enjoy the ocean, although with respectful sensibilities. He pulled her tight, feeling her

resistance give way and gave her another kiss, insistent enough for her to finally part her lips and let it really be a kiss. She felt far too enraptured with the seemingly mystical ambi-ence of this little oasis town. Why make a hurricane in her own soup bowl so to speak. Or was this really home now? Just feeling the Todos Santos vibes made her heart sing YES! It was a magic place where time and “progress” seemed to have passed by, like the California her granddad had told her about. They’d had the time of their lives off the beaten track all the way down Baja. She sighed and gave in. “We’ve got a lot of unpacking to do and it’s get-ting dark. Just the essentials for now, we’ll unpack the rest manana.” “Hey, what about getting ripped off?” “Huh? He looked at her as if she’d gone bonkers. “This is the only place I’ve ever been that the key makers shop is next to the shrink’s! And far as I know the nearest shrink is in La Paz. Did you check my front door? Was it locked?” Sue shook her head. “I checked it out. Nothing has been touched; to the contrary, it’s cleaner now than I left it. Well, the ten bal-lenas I left for El Capitan are gone, but I told him “mi casa es su casa”. He went in first with as many boxes and suitcases he could carry and plopped them down next to the bed. He perused the room before she came in. All was in order. Noth-ing out of place. There really wasn’t any crime down here. Nobody even needed to lock the doors. But he still had to prevent his house from becoming party central now that Sue was here. Or maybe not? He met her at the door step, asked her to put the suit cases down and he carried her to the bed, kissed her and said he’d get the rest. “Uhm, hurry back” “Forgiven?” He put on his sad puppy dog eyes, nuzzling her side. “I’ve got some great ideas on making it up to you!” He felt her arms around him pulling him closer. “Um, sounds exciting,” she nipped his ear. “ Urrrrr” she growled pretend-ing she were a big mad shark. “Now off you go and be quick about it!” “Si Mamacita!” and back to the truck he went. Happy that the house was clean, spider free and tidy and that she had taken his lie of omission so graciously. He was off the hook about the shark bite. For now. Sooner or later “los chismes” would catch up to him and he’d have to tell all. Damn the local gossip!

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Then Sue remembered the spiders that had almost squashed their first night together and so she checked the bed over real well and her heart fell when her fingers touched the long dark hair, and the little scrap of paper, a love note from some little Mexican bitch! She burned with betrayal and jealousy. Bastard! I’m so gullible! Trish was right! And now I’m stuck here with this lying, cheat-ing Peter Pan prick! When he’d shut the camper door and turned, he could see the tears welling up in her eyes as she con-fronted him, her palm held out. Probably bugs again! He figured. But as he took a step forward she stepped back. These were not sad or fear tears. She was pissed. “And what else have you been fib-bing about”? She stabbed him with a look and held out the evidence. “This was on the bed!”

He stared at her open hand. Then the little note and hair were thrown in his face. “Damn you!” She stammered. “Take me to the airport now!”He stared dumbfounded at the damning evidence, which for once he REALLY didn’t know anything about or how it got there. He was so devastated that he couldn’t even plead his innocence.

Look for the continuing story in the next issue of Destino.

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CONFESSIONS OF ABORN AGAIN SUGAR JUNKIEby Dr. Bill Sniechowski

I am 5’9” tall, weigh 160 lbs. with 18% body fat. I am 63 years old. Patients often ask me how I main-

tain my fitness level. Others often complain when I counsel them on lifestyle changes to optimize health and well-being saying, “That’s easy for you to say, look at you, you prob-ably never had a chocolate ice cream cone in your life!?” Nay nay, Jose. The winding road I have travelled, like the highway between Cabo and Todos Santos, is littered with the detritus of a sugar junkie: candy wrappers, soda and beer cans, potato chip bags, corn dog sticks, cheesy nacho plates and any-thing else you could pick up on the fly at the 7-11. When I was 12 years old, I was 5’2” tall and weighed 180 lbs. When I was graduated from undergraduate school, I was 5’10” tall and weighed 217 lbs. I thought indigestion was the course following dessert. When I was growing up, we were told acid reflux was the sign of a good meal. My father walked around with a burst appendix for two weeks thinking it was just my mother’s sauerkraut. A typical evening in college started with an 8 pack of Entemann’s choco-late covered old fashioned donuts, a couple quarts of milk, a few hours of backgammon and then going out for pizza and a few pitchers of beer.By the time I was 30, I was predia-betic with a burgeoning gastric ulcer, chronic diarrhea, high blood pressure,

elevated cholesterol and on the verge of a heart attack. So I changed my ways. I started eating the healthy gra-nola – the one with the M&M’s and coconut. Ice cream had calcium in it and beer was loaded with vitamins so, what the heck. When I was 35, I was carrying a plate of take-out fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy and bread rolls into the den to have dinner in front of the tube. I couldn’t find the TV tray so I just sat down on the recliner, bushed it back and rested the plate on my belly. I reminded myself of my fat uncle Andy. Later that evening, getting ready to go clubbing, I took a shower. As was my wont in those days, I sat down in the tub and let the water shower over me. At one point, I looked down and scared myself half to death because I thought I was sit-ting on somebody. Getting dressed, I could get the zipper on my tight black denims only half way up so I tucked the flaps in and covered it with a long tailed shirt, calling it casual chic. I couldn’t bend over to put on cowboy boots so I opted for loafers. The simple act of getting dressed caused sweat to roll down my forehead, dampen my hair and foul my shirt. I started cry-ing.I knew then that if I was ever going to see 40, things had to change. Here’s what I did. The first thing I did was get a men-tor/coach/teacher/doctor. He was a chiropractor/nutritionist/sports

doc (not surprisingly, that’s what I became). He told me thoughts cre-ate actions and actions create reality. I could think about all manner of things I wanted to become but unless I took the action steps, nothing would really change (“Get real,” as Dr. Phil would say). So I changed my thought process. When I looked at donuts, bread, pasta, ice cream, candy, beer etc., I didn’t think, “Yummy,” I thought, “ diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease and fat uncle Andy.” Mostly, fat uncle Andy. I took action. I emptied my kitchen of all the junk and learned how to cook (to this day, one of my greatest pleasures). When I went to the supermarket, I shopped the periphery: fruits, veggies, eggs, meats, some cheese, maybe a bottle of wine and out the door. I stayed out of the middle where all the poison littered the shelves. When I went out to eat, I told the waiter not to bring bread to the table and don’t ask about dessert. I began exercising. The most beneficial exercise in my new regimen was placing the index finger and thumb of each hand on either side of my plate and pushing it away.I became a CRONI (Caloric Restric-tion with Optimal Nutritional Intake –higher quality food in less quantity). I bought a brace of beagles because I knew a treadmill would just become a clothes hanger in my bedroom and if I didn’t want my apartment to be puppy poop central, I’d have to walk

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them t w i c e a day for 45 minutes. It’s amazing how your appe-tite diminishes when you’re sweaty, pant-ing and nauseous. I lifted weights (now I use elastic bands) to tighten up the sag-ging skin and muscles when the weight started coming off. And, most importantly, I began taking whole food nutritional supplements to help my body repair and regenerate so it would be strong and healthy enough to make these changes without harm-ing me. It took one year to lose 55 lbs. and another six months to tighten up the flab. Was it easy? Of course not. There were ups and downs all along the way but my mentor/coach/teacher/doctor was there and kept impressing on me the need for disci-pline, commitment and compassion. I have maintained my weight and fitness level for over 20 years and it isn’t hard any more. It’s simply my way of life.

Dr. Bill Sniechowski practices in Cabo San Lucas at Suite 2 in the Hotel Los Patios. Call 624-118-1603 or email [email protected] if you have any questions or would like more information on how health coaching can help you achieve your goals.

During a power outage in Cali-fornia in the 1990s, alarmed residents reportedly called in

to report a strange, cloudy shape in the nighttime sky. It turned out to be the Milky Way- seen for the first time. For those of us who live in urban or suburban areas, an overabundance of artificial nighttime light, or light pol-lution, is nothing new. But light pol-lution isn’t just a bane to astronomers and an annoyance to the rest of us, studies show that it also poses real health risks, including some increased rates of cancer.A recent study done in Israel pub-lished in Chronobiology Interna-tional, has shown some disturbing

trends between women exposed to large amounts of artificial night light and breast cancer. The team

overlaid satellite photos to measure nighttime artificial light levels with a map detailing the distribution of breast cancer cases. Those women liv-ing in the brightest areas (as defined by being able to read at outdoors at midnight) had a 73% higher risk of developing breast cancer than those living in areas with the least outdoor lighting. These results correlate with an earlier study done in 2005 that showed women who worked night shifts in hospitals also had higher incidences of breast cancer. The report, published in Cancer Research, suggests that melatonin-or rather the lack of it-may be the cause.

Melatonin is an essential hormone that our bodies make at night while we sleep. It requires darkness and plays a critical role in regulating our internal clocks. For women, the light-sensitive hormone is particularly important since scientists suspect that melatonin helps to reduce estrogen levels-higher estrogen levels being a factor in developing breast cancer. And melatonin levels drop precipitously in the presence of artificial light. This research helps to explain two stark facts that epidemiologists have long known: breast cancer rates are three to five times higher in industrialized countries and 20 to 50 percent less in blind women. Furthermore, a study released in February by University of Haifa researchers, found elevated risks of prostate cancer in countries with

the highest levels of artificial light. The most recent data on the amount of world light pollution was compiled in 1997 in the First World Atlas of Artificial Night Brightness Health. In areas where 97% of the US popula-tion, 96% of the European Union population, and half of the world’s population live, the sky is always at least as bright as it is when there is a half moon; for many others, “night” doesn’t really come at all and the nighttime sky is in a perpetual twi-light state. As for the Milky Way, more than two-thirds of Americans and half of all Europeans cannot see it with the naked eye... so get out of the city once and a while and enjoy a star filled night sky, it just might prolong your life….

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Searching for Passion in Lifeand finding Toxicityby Marshall Ellingson

This past fall after returning from a two-week visit back to Toronto everything seemed normal. In

retrospect there was something brewing under the surface. I got (or manifested from my consciousness) food poisoning and didn’t come out of that funk for a month. I stopped surfing, stopped exercising, gave in to food cravings, stopped writing and just couldn’t seem to get anything done. The days went by more or less as usual yet something didn’t feel right. Energy wasn’t there. It hap-pened insidiously, day by day, difficult to perceive in the short-term,, yet over time, the effects accumulated into my life slipping off track. In the time leading up to the food poisoning I found myself asking, “Now what?” What am I passionate about? Life in Cabo was going along as I had imagined: loving the desert, the sea, the balmy air and the life-style. My friends here and up north

were getting married and having kids so they had a purpose. Is that what I should do? Without those elements to focus on what am I to do? What now? Life can get kinda weird with-out a focus (or a distraction). Soon after I was interviewing Wendy Rudell. I had met her here in San Jose and chatted on numer-ous occasions and always left feeling that she was someone I would like to know more about and learn from. She seemed a picture of health and vitality. One of those people about whom we say, “What is she doing and how can I do that to?” Wendy has worked as a health coach, a holistic nutritional consul-tant and has written a book called “The Raw Transformation”. Her background is in naturopathic and homeopathic remedies, all natural diet and exercise. Wendy spent 5 years working and learning at the Optimal Health Institute in San Diego. There, she worked with the principals of

Arhold Ehret (1822-1922), revered as the father of naturopathy, and his “Mucousless Diet Healing System” which consists of all kinds of raw and cooked fruits, starchless vegetables and cooked or raw, mostly green-leaf vegetables. It uses a combination of long and short-term fasts, and menus that progres-sively change to non-mucus-forming foods and colonic irrigation.

VITALITY=POWER-OBSTRUCTION(V=P-O).

One of Wendy’s goals is to cre-ate a holistic health wellness retreat and spa community: an eco-friendly, solar, off-the-grid ranch community with shared gardens, ongoing health cleansing and detox retreats. Other aspects include: full moon and other community events, temezcals (sweat lodges), meditation, raw cleansing foods, fresh squeezed juices, classes on how the body/mind/spirit work, mental/physical/spiritual detox, colon cleansing, healthy meal prepa-ration and food combining, cleansing at home to deal with serious health issues and how we’ve often been brainwashed by the medical com-munity. The ranch project has begun with 1000 acres of land located 45 minutes from the tourist corridor up towards the mountains. Wendy and her partner Charlie are looking for like-minded people to become involved in the project. Upon talking with Wendy and revealing my slipping off of the track she offered to test me on her $18,000 SCIO machine. The SCIO is a machine used in Quantum Healing. Quantum healing is an alleged pro-cess wherein one mode of conscious-ness, the mind, corrects dis-ease in another mode of consciousness, the body. The thinking here is that dis-ease comes down from consciousness to the physical whereas in western medicine disease comes up to con-sciousness from the physical. With Quantum Healing we are our own ultimate healer. Our consciousness/spirit/God is where supreme healing comes from. If one can make the leap to the supreme healer then one can bypass physical manifestation, through insight into how we created disease in first place, the cause. This

is the quantum leap. The SCIO can read and assess approximately 10,000 factors relat-ing to the complex cellular structure of the body and in 3 minutes feed back 65,000,000 bits of data pro-viding information about actual and potential weaknesses and strengths in the body. The programs measure such factors as the body’s voltage, amperage, resistance, hydration, oxi-dation, proton pressure (acidity) and electron pressure (alkalinity). More than 10,000 Quantum Systems are used worldwide by a range of health practitioners. It uses a 9 volt “zap-per”. It zaps parasites that release viruses and bacteria. The SCIO claims to work on the quantum level to rearrange bioelectric and magnetic fields on the bio-terrain energy level. It claims to clear blockages in men-tal, emotional and spiritual levels to avoid manifestations of disease in our physical bodies. My testing session on the SCIO lead to questions from Wendy and thoughts from me about my current lifestyle: debaucherous eating, alco-hol, occasional cigarettes and other leafy smokeables. Are all of these an emotional crutch? I do them because in the moment they are fun. This is the paradigm that has gotten me through life so far so why would I want to give it up? This is what I know. Is it worth it? Is there an alternative way that I would prefer? If there is then it must be something worthwhile my giving up my current way of being. The SCIO told me that I have an acidic body which sucks minerals from bones such as calcium in order to attempt to balance itself. This aspect of acidity I found interesting. Over acidity, which can become a danger-ous condition that weakens all body systems, is very common today. It gives rise to an internal environment conducive to disease, as opposed to a pH-balanced environment, which allows normal body function neces-sary for the body to resist disease. A healthy body maintains adequate

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alkaline reserves to meet emergency demands. When excess acids must be neutralized our alkaline reserves are depleted leaving the body in a weak-ened condition. An acid-alkaline balanced diet is a vital key to health maintenance.

The worst food contributors to an acidic diet are: artificial sweeten-ers, beef, beer, breads, brown sugar, carbonated soft drinks, cereals (refined), chocolate, cigarettes and tobacco, coffee, custard (with white sugar), drugs, fish, flour, fruit juices with sugar, jams, jellies, lamb, liquor, maple syrup (processed), molasses (sulphured), pasta (white), pastries and cakes from white flour, pickles (commercial), pork, poultry, seafood, sugar (white), table salt (refined and iodized), tea (black), white bread, white vinegar (processed), whole wheat foods, wine and yogurt (sweet-ened). Wow, that’s a pretty tasty list to many of us. To lower acidity, these are the best foods: lemons, watermelon, limes (put lime juice in drinking water), cantaloupe, celery, figs, kelp, melons, mango, asparagus, fruit and vegetable juices.The SCIO went on to say such things as I have low serotonin, weak adre-nals, energy movement is good, water to cells is low, oxygen to cells normal, Resonance Frequency Pattern (RFP) is low, kidneys are low on water, low ability to metabolize fat, protein imbalance as I have been eating lots of meat, low on metabolic enzymes due to high acidic level and lots of mental activity (thinking).

Until I detox, cleanse my body and rid myself of obstructions, my vitality will be low. For any machine, includ-ing my body, energy output equals power less friction. So, in our cars we regularly change our oil. If friction

is too high from toxicity, energy out-put decreases. It can take from 1 to 3 years to fully detox depending on the individual and levels of toxicity. Eliminate obstructions and have pure vitality and power. Free our bodies from aches, pains, subluxations and cancers. It is recommended that one use care, do one’s own homework and receive supervision during detox.

ENERGY = POWER - FRICTIONOnce the body is working effi-

ciently then one can once and a while enjoy a BBQ or a coffee without dire consequences. The idea is not to live that way and consume such foods 3 times a day. Wendy has noticed through her practice that high pro-tein diets are often accompanied by high consumption of alcohol and sugars.

As we work on ourselves our vibrancy and energy level rise. This leads us to transform our way of being, a feeling of connectivity to our environment, to care for our-selves and the planet. Our minds are controlled by media and advertising. There is no connection to the source, the sacred, no awareness that we are using our consciousness to destroy ourselves and the planet. The enemy is us yet we blame others, the econ-

omy, leaders etc. There is personal freedom by releasing family patterns and taking responsibility to create life experiences. Look at mental and emotional components and how these representations manifest on physical level.

Before leaving Wendy I was given a “Contract to Health” that came with homework. My suggested therapy: homeopathy, exercise and healthy diet. She recommended I do a cleanse and look on the internet for information concerning acid and alkaline foods plus foods high in iron, potassium and vitamin A. The body cleanses the superficial first - sinuses, mucous, eyes, nose, ears and skin problems. Deeper cleansing reaches the kidneys, liver and then lastly the lungs and heart. Wendy mentioned a liver cleanse so I searched for and found a few good options. I will write about the liver cleanse and other steps I take in subsequent issues of Destino. My affirmation is: “Take responsibility for my disease and let healing into my body.” Now it is up to me to decide what is my com-mitment to my health. We don’t all want the same thing when it relates to health. Make a conscious choice and be responsible. So, what is it?

YOGALOS CABOSMany resorts offer yoga classes to guests. Here arepublic yoga classes, andinstructors who offer privatesessions.

San Jose del CaboAmericas Studio of YogaBikram/Hot Yogawww.americasstudioofyoga.com124-0318

Bikram Yoga with MercedesBikram/Hot [email protected]

Cabo DanzaClasses with Caryl Leffel(Kaleidoscope Yoga)Styles: Hatha, Power, Vinyasawww.kaleidoscopeyoga.com044-624-137-278

Cabo Mind Body FitnessBikram, [email protected]

Raices y Brazos Cultural CenterVinyasa, Kundalini, Bikramwww.raicesybrazos.org142-3794

Yoga with India [email protected]

Yoga with Tony SanchezYoga Challengewww.tonysanchezyoga.com

CaboSan LucasCSL FitnessHatha Yogawww.loscabosguide.com/cslfitness/index.html044-624-164-2973

Centro PsicomedicaHatha Yoga143-2307

Green AppleHatha Yoga110-0328

Sporti-KHatha, Ashtanga145-8609

Yoga with Yvonne LopezHatha [email protected]

Todos SantosYoga at La ArcaAshtanga, HathaSee www.bajawesternonion.com

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Just over five years ago I was liv-ing in a raw food house and was told about a liver cleanse involv-

ing, among other things, apple juice and olive oil. The result was the liver flushing itself of toxins and stones. Stones? They just come out in your feces? Nearly all of us develop them over time? I checked out the pho-tos on the internet and was amazed and curious. For years I kept mak-ing notes to myself to try this liver cleanse. Once I did and blew-it on the last night while bar tending for an event at Raices y Brazos. Well, finally again this April 1st, fools day, I began the four day adventure. I had fasted and done “The Master Cleanse” before so I was mentally prepared. The liver cleanse was simple and easy as it involved fasting only the second part of the last day. I ate normally and added one liter of fresh apple juice each day for four days. Fried foods and alcohol were not allowed. The last night included drinking a mixture of one cup olive oil, ¾ cup lemon juice and one cup soda. The apple juice has malic acid, which softens the stones in the liver and gall bladder. The olive oil causes the liver and gall bladder to constrict, squeezing out the stones. I learned the details and bought the necessary additive for the liver flush from Corine Arnaud. Corine is a fashion designer from France and never thought she would be promot-ing organ cleanses here in Los Cabos. She gets a kick-out of sharing infor-mation that has worked for her. Her father died of cirrhosis of the liver and she saw him suffer. Corinne her-self was sickly into her twenties and decided she was “sick of being sick”.

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She began investigating health for herself, met a mentor and was amazed at what came out of her liver, kidney and colon following cleanses. She has 15 years using the same recipe for this liver cleanse, doing it once a year for her birthday. We met on the Casa Dahlia patio in San Jose’s Art District and shared a juice of apple (one a day keeps the doctor away), celery (calms the nerves), broccoli (good for cancer), parsley (pure healing food) and alfalfa sprouts (loaded with enzymes which aid in processing food and in chemi-cal reactions in our bodies). Next, we sat down and chatted about the liver and looked over some of her diagrams. The liver is the major detoxifier of the body and has many other functions. Every time we eat, food absorbed from the small intestine goes through the liver and is redistributed to the body, good food that is. Bad food gets surrounded by bile and forms stones. 90% of people have stones and 80% don’t know it. Anger gets collected in liver. The liver is known as “The house of emotion”. A clogged, contaminated liver results in minor and major health afflictions including allergies, acne, sore joints, low energy and yeast infections. The bile ducts are clogged with pollutants, metals, chemicals, parasites, bacteria and viruses. The liver’s response is to turn it some of these into stones and then push them over into the gallbladder (gallstones). Stones come in different sizes, shapes and colors, and many contain choles-terol crystals that prevent cholesterol

from leaving the body thus raising cholesterol levels. One of the most common surger-ies today in North America is the removal of the gall bladder (chole-cystectomy). More than 600,000 cholecystectomies are being done each year. Gallbladder surgery is now about as common as a hyster-ectomy, which is second only to Caesarean sections. I Googled gall bladder operation costs and found they ranged from low thousands to over 17000 USD including hospital time and a post-operation recovery of 1 to 6 weeks. Plus, the patient has to have their body cut open and an organ removed. There is no money for pharmaceutical companies and hospitals in selling apple juice and olive oil. If history shows us any-thing it is that medical procedures all become archaic. A good blood-letting anyone? It wasn’t until just over a century or so ago that doctors learned about bacteria and started sterilizing (see: Louis Pasteur) their instruments and washing their hands between operations. Before that anyone who mentioned bacteria was ridiculed and the bloodiest doctor was thought to be the best. The two types of gallstones are cholesterol stones and pigment stones. Cholesterol stones are usually yellow-green and are made primar-ily of hardened cholesterol. They account for about 80 percent of gall-stones. Pigment stones are small, dark stones made of bilirubin. Gallstones can be as small as a grain of sand or as large as a golf ball. The gallblad-der can develop just one large stone, hundreds of tiny stones, or almost any combination. We change our oil in our car regularly, why not cleanse our bodies and replenish with fresh clean fuel? The four days of drinking apple juice went off without a hitch. I did have a party to attend on the last night, an hors d’oeuvre affair with plenty of open bottles of wine. Phew,

made it through that one. That night I chugged the nearly 3 cup olive oil combo, glug glug glug. Slight nausea ensued, though it was mild. I went to sleep early with plenty of anticipation and a bit of trepidation now that the time had come. Waiting to poo. The next morning I couldn’t wait to see what came out. I so wanted to see the stones! To get that physical feedback! Bowel move-ment number one was a no-show. I read my instructions and noted that the majority of stones were expected from movements two and three. Well, they did not disappoint! Twenty to twenty-five stones came out (I caught them in a strainer) and ranged in size from a pea to ½ the size of a golf ball. They were a dark green color, quite lovely actually, and soft to cut with a knife, like a warm dark green jelly bean. Success! WOW! The days since have been filled with extra energy as my liver processes on a higher level, free from obstructions. I feel a sense of personal empowerment with regards to my health. There is controversy with this procedure as some sites say that it does not do what it proposes (www.quackwatch.org, www.zap.intergate.ca/liver.html) so do your research and decide for yourself. By the way if you do this, you may not want to use that pasta strainer again.

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A new paper analyzes the case for vitamin D’s cancer-fight-ing power by looking at the

well-known Hill criteria for examin-ing causality in a biological system. The Hill criteria observe: random and control tests, causal relationships, and biological history and consistency.

The theory that solar ultraviolet radiation, and by extension, vita-min D, which is produced when such radiation strikes your skin -- is a potent cancer fighter and satis-fies most, if not all, of the criteria. Therefore, from a scientific point of view, vitamin D reduces the risk of many forms of cancer and increases survival rates once cancer reaches a detectable stage. However, public policy often lags behind scientific research. It is hoped

that the acceptance of the beneficial nature of vitamin D, in reducing the risk of cancer and many other dis-eases, will not have too much longer to wait. It is encouraging that the National Academy of Sciences’ Insti-tute of Medicine is currently embark-ing on a two-year study of vitamin D, and is expected to issue a report in 2010.Sources: Dermato-EndocionologyJanuary 2009.

YOGA FOR SPORTSRegardless of your age, physical

challenges, or flexibility, yoga offers the tools that allow you

to enhance your performance on the golf course and the tennis court. The practice of yoga asanas (postures) creates greater strength, increased flexibility, better balance, correct alignment, quality breath, sharpened concentration and an opportunity to manage chronic pain. Greater Strength - Asanas tone mus-cles and strengthen connective tissue and bones. Developing strength pro-vides consistent power in all aspects of your game.Increased Flexibility - Asanas lengthen muscle fibers and increase lubrica-tion in joints, ligaments and tendons. Flexibility decreases the risk of injury and increases the ability to perform movements that require extension of the spine and limbs.Better Balance - Asanas enhance pro-prioceptive cognition or awareness of the physical body and its movement through space. Golf and tennis both require asymmetrical movements, which can create compression, restric-tion or weakness in either side of the body. Yoga postures are designed to bring more balance throughout the body. Balance affects spinal move-ment in the swing and serve, in club or racquet control, and in weight dis-tribution. Correct Alignment - As propriocep-tive cognition increases, you become aware of anatomical imbalances, and are able to focus your intention on making postural corrections as you move through your game. Quality Breath - The yoga practice brings your attention to the breath, which enables you to use it more efficiently. The physiological effect of restricted breathing is reduced blood and oxygen flow to the extremities, including the brain. Yoga practice incorporates rhythmic, deep, dia-phragmatic breathing, which eventu-ally becomes intuitive. Any stress you experience on the course or the court

can cause the body to respond with restricted, rapid, and shallow breath-ing. Deep, relaxed breathing directly reduces tension and anxiety allow-ing you to improve the rhythm and tempo of your game. Sharpened Concentration - The yoga practice brings us totally into the moment. Taking your mind into a quiet meditative state while main-taining full awareness is the ultimate goal of the yoga practice. Research indicates regular meditation trains the mind to relax and improves concentration. Eventually this ampli-fied state of being present extends beyond your yoga session and into your game and creates the power to manifest your intention. Impossible shots become easier when your focus is razor sharp.Pain Management - A body in pain does not move with freedom. Ten-nis players typically have tight hips, quadriceps and hamstrings. Knees, calves, ankles and feet take a beating as you lunge for shots. In both ten-nis and golf, the body is constantly thrown out of balance as you twist for shots and serves or try to accomplish that perfect swing. Elbows and wrists are subjected to the strain of repeti-tive movements. All of these elements take their toll on the body’s freedom of movement and often reveal them-selves as chronic pain. The variety of

postures and styles of yoga creates an opportunity to explore methods to rehabilitate injuries and adjust physi-cal imbalances that cause chronic pain. Specific physical effects of yoga asanas (postures):

Yoga postures that require bearing weight on the hands and wrists increase strength and traction in the joints reducing pain and limitation due to repeat task strain. They also improve club or racquet control. Yoga postures for the shoulders and upper back region relieve shoulder and back pain caused by tension and a sedentary lifestyle. These asanas support correct pos-ture, increase shoulder mobility and reduce the risk of rotator-cuff injury. Yoga postures for the lower back muscles help maintain correct alignment, reduce fatigue, and relieve low back pain. These pos-tures increase blood flow to the muscles and spine, improve range of motion and stability and increase power. Yoga postures for the hip flexors and iliopsoas muscles decrease lower back pain and allow for greater power and extension in challenging movements. Yoga postures for quadriceps and hamstring muscles create strength and flexibility in the legs. You will feel greater ease of movement and support in your back and knees. Strong flexible legs support the body’s ability to maintain a strong foundation through proper knee and ankle flexion and extension. Yoga postures that address the calves, ankles and feet relieve pain in the lower legs and plantar fas-cia areas. They increase stability and balance, and a sense of being grounded to the earth, which affects push-off power, endurance and weight distribution.

So the next time you walk off of the course or the court wishing you had aced that perfect shot (or shots) remember that a better game may be only a few yoga classes away.

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SAN PEDRO BEACH also known by the foreigner’s as Palm Beach, burned over 10 hectorarias for almost an entire day on March 29th. This beach is known for its palm tree forest and fresh water lagoon nestled in a cove between Todos Santos and Pescadero. It is one of Baja’s most beautiful and treasured sites. The palms survived but the brush and their habitants were destroyed.

THE PLAZA in front of the Church in Todos Santos is being renovated to look as it did at the turn of the century. Funding for the new plaza is from the Master Development Plan for the Todos Santos/Pescadero area and from the Pueblo Magico (part of the Federal Office of Secretary of Tourism) The project will done in three phases: first phrase was the

gazebo, the second phase, is the plaza directly in front of the main church. The final phase will be moving the police and municipal offices south of town. A new mayor’s office building constructed for ceremonial purposes only. The building will be reflective of the historical brick/adobe style typical of the To-dos Santos histori-cal center. The projected deadline for completion is October 2009. It is rumored at this time that the plaza will become closed to vehicle traffic. THE FILM FESTIVAL of TODOS SANTOS celebrated its sixth annual event the first week of March under the direction of San Francisco’s Latin Film Festival’s director and founder, Sylvia Perel. Leonardo Perel along with the Film Festival committee worked hard to maintain and expand the film festival’s goals. The “Youth in Film” produced their second film this year. Last year, by the way, the first picture “Youth in Film” was recognized in the Film Festival in Mexico City. This year’s film was equally fantastic. In addition, another film was made documenting the life of the” Rancheros”. Many, including the ranchers themselves and their families, attended this event. The documentation left tears in the eyes of many. The Film Festival and the Institute of Culture on the state level were also successful in its efforts in bringing the films to the University Autonomy in La Paz. The films were not only to enjoy, but were used as an educational tool. The Committee of Film Festival of Todos Santos, along with Lic. Elsa de La Paz Esquivel (director of Institute of Culture for the States of B.C.S.) has worked hard to integrate the community at large, not only with film projects, but with bringing the best films of the Latin World to as many people as possible.

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Professor Nestor Agundez died in late March. “Profe Nestor”, as his friends called him, was

active in the community for many decades. His essays and poetry are known all over the state. His dedication and sincerity put him in a class all by himself. He was an example to all in how to live: always positive, always reassuring, always from the heart. Educating and helping the youth find their talents and their centers were some of the core work of Profe Nestor. His politics were inseparable from his daily work and his core beliefs in peace were manifested on every level. His love of life, his culture and his Baja California was also expressed and manifested in all that he did. He was truly a man that walked his talk. He never wavered; he was always consistent, always dependable. There is only one Profe Nestor. Those of us who were for-tunate enough to know him have been left with many gifts: many rich times to recall, many instances upon which to draw strength from who he was and still represents. We know where Profe is now, where he as always belonged and where he always lived anyway. Profe you are missed and we all thank you for the gifts of love you have so graciously given your whole life. Nestor Agundez memo-rial was held in the Casa de Cultura on 28th of March. His ceremony was attended by Jose Luis Castillo, Mayor of Todos Santos, Lic. Elsa de Paz Esquivel, Director of the Institute of Culture for the State of Baja California Sur, representative’s from the Governor Agundez office, and countless family and friends from near and far.

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PESCADERO Chiles & Strawberriesby Jennifer Leigh Rosen

Pescadero, the town just south of Todos Santos, often gets a bad rap. Not only do the state highway,

and the subsequent loud long trucks transporting cargo, chainsaw their way through the middle of town, but also, Pescadero, lacks the historic charm and artistic flair that has intrinsically helped put Todos Santos on the proverbial map and contributed to the towns many accolades and recent “hot spot” allure. In the wake of Todos Santos’ distinc-tion as a “Pueblo Magíco - an honorary title appointed to select pueblos across the republic that among other require-ments must be plump with charm - is the contrasting title of “pueblo tragíco” I heard a resident of Pescadero once call her town in jest. But the towns are very much linked by their close approximation, and the federal government’s Master Plan of Development for the coastline from Los Cerritos to Las Playitas has Todos Santos and Pescadero at the epicenter. There is a camaraderie, respect and close friendship between the communi-ties with extended families, athletes and students crisscrossing between the two. Pescadero may not be as polished and genteel as Todos Santos; no restaurants require reservations nor will coconut lemongrass soup or fine Italian wine be offered on any menu. But it is that very absence of “shi-shi” that makes Pescadero preferable to some. In fact, it is for this very reason that although I own property in both Todos Santos and Pescadero and Todos Santos is where I permanently reside, the bumper sticker on my car is decidedly a “P” instead of the “TS”, the latter being a town I unabashedly adore, but, for me, a far too hip and trendy place these days to publicly declare my affinity. Pescadero, all too often, resides in the shadow of Todos Santos and besides its noteworthy beaches and surf breaks has very little designation uniquely it’s own. The first Chile & Strawberry Festival, “El Festival de Chile y Fresa”, organized by the ejido of Pescadero and sponsored in part by the Department of Develop-ment & Tourism for the county of La Paz and the state government of Baja California Sur, was a uniquely appropri-ate event and perfect municipal boost.

Although tourism is a growing entity and industry, Pescadero is first and fore-most an agricultural town harvesting and shipping far and wide produce such as chilies, tomatoes, basil, strawberries and mangos. When I pulled off the highway in the mid-afternoon on Saturday April 4, police were casually directing traffic, vertical white lines indicating parking spots had been spray-painted on the dirt (a surprisingly organized detail for these parts) and cars where parked in any and every available space. A sunny day with a sporadic soft breeze, the conditions were perfect for afternoon strolling, succulent nibbling, and unhurried shopping in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere for learning the practices and policies of the different agricultural companies and co-ops. As I approached the horseshoe lay-out of stalls, which I would later find had a wide selection of produce, aromatic plants, and local artisan crafts; I couldn’t help but notice, smack in the center of the pedestrian thoroughfare, two young women facing me, standing at attention with a hardy long yellow ribbon and bow, stretched between them. People were clearly idling and looking in the direc-tion from which I came, no one seemed interested in venturing to peruse the booths behind them; their attention was on the entrance and their anticipation palpable. Before I had settled-in to the rock in the shade where I had chosen to sit, a white Suburban pulled up, and the spectator energy surged. By this time I had ascertained that the crowd was waiting for the Governor of Baja Cali-fornia Sur, Narciso Agúndez Montaño, who arrived with the Mayor of Todos Santos, José Luis Castillo Camacho, and a handful of other government dignitar-ies from La Paz. Any foreigner with a genuine inter-est or solid understanding of Mexico recognizes the culture’s propensity for pomp and circumstance; the fascina-tion with the curlicues of presentation, the insistence on seals and stamps and signatures in the correct color ink, the elaborate introductions and formali-ties. And the Spanish language with all its many subtleties and ornamentation is too often the perfect compliment. I

was relieved that the ceremony for this virgin event, which could so easily lend itself to cyclical long-winded sentiments and belabored embellishments of titles and protocol, was sincerely and suc-cinctly executed. There were the expected series of speeches from the President of Pes-cadero’s ejido, among a handful of other Pescadero representatives and La Paz officials, which culminated with Gov-ernor Agúndez’s words, congratulating Pescadero on the evident success of the festival, remarking on the tight-knit community, reminding us that the natu-ral beauty and essential resources innate to the area is why this stretch between Los Cabos and La Paz is ripe with plans for substantial development, which will enable this southernmost section of the peninsula, a tourist industry that is pre-dicted to far surpass anywhere else in the country. And with that the yellow ribbon was cut. He listened intently to the speeches of others, looked people in the eye, and visited each and every stand at the festi-val, conversing in earnest with the farm-ers and craftspeople, lingering when needed and notably taking his time. I wondered about, ran into a few friends and we caught-up while consuming a shared basket of juicy strawberries. I ingratiated myself with endearing locals, asking Mexican Doñas for their pho-tos; grandmothers wrapped in shawls with wrinkled faces punctuating years of smiles and profound expression. I meandered and bantered with those nearby for close to two hours. When I found myself nearing the other end of the horseshoe, the Governor was there too, oddly away from his pack, I intro-duced myself, we shook hands, and he continued on, making his way to the few remaining stands. Satisfied and ready to leave, I was briefly distracted by a stand selling dried herbs, including the notorious, “Domi-aña”, a plant indigenous to the area that many locals emphatically claim is an aphrodisiac. I turned from the table to walk to my car and spotted Gover-nor Agúndez up ahead, acknowledging the greetings of a passerby with a short stop to shake hands. After which, he clasped his hands behind his back, and

slowly strolled-on, through the entrance from which he’d arrived, an unconcerned body guard and underling near by, but he had gone within and was alone in his repose. The quintessential image of a man deep in thought and the white Suburban poised for his departure.

ing the life of a successful artist and encouraging them to never give up - exemplifying with many years of ded-ication, great success can be achieved in a highly competitive field.” Jill recommends maintaining a sense of humor and lightness, while constantly changing and exploring.

Jill studied Fine Art at the University of Utah and the University of California, Irvine. She has also had mentors and private instruction with Judith Crook, Fritz Scholder, and Arteminia Sepulveda. She has shown her work in many solo and group exhibitions, and is an internationally collected artist. She has her own gallery in Todos Santos. For more information visit www.jilllogan.com In the spring of 1998 Jill Logan moved to Todos Santos. I like her reason for moving as well as her writing:I am an artist.Living in Mexico.I have not always lived in Mexico, nor did I ever expect to. I did know I would live in a foreign country. I knew this from as far back as I can remember. Not once did I think it would be Mexico. It was most certainly going to be some-place exotic, filled with squalor, spices, turmeric, cinnamon, surely cardamom and lace. Lots of lace, white, ivory, soft, luxurious, floating lace in windows and around beds, around my feet, off the chairs and into the dining table.Color.Deep dried blood red.Pomegranate red.Crushed dark cherry red on the white tile floor.Patayas, Hibiscus, Jamaica, after the flowers leaves have boiled for 10 minutes in water.Gold.Gold threads woven into Bordeaux fabric. Gold bangles.Gold windows flickering light from a distant sun.Today I live in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.I have lived here since June of 1998.Why?They always ask meIt felt right.”

JILL LOGAN A PASSIONATE AND COLORFUL

ARTIST OF EMOTIONSby Marilyn Graham

Jill Logan is a passionate and prolific artist, constantly exploring and seeking out new avenues of creative expres-

sion. Brilliant color, rhythm and movement are the first things I noticed in her artwork, and they drew me into her paintings like a magnet. I love her art! It is magical, energetic, colorful, sensual, expressive and it touches something inside of me. Jill uses varied mediums but first and foremost oils, with some acrylics and more recently mosa-ics made of glass, stone and marble, as well as three dimensional abstracts.. The subjects vary from Mexican scenes, landscapes, abstracts to her personal spiritual journey expressed through the women she paints. Originally beginning with an expressionistic style, influenced by Van Gogh and Gaugain, Logan has explored expressionism, impression-ism and abstract impressionism seeking to find and express her unique spiritual voice in a very personal journey. She defined expressionism for me as “painting emotion......wanting to capture a feeling of the place or just an emotion of what I’m feeling.” It is a loose fluid flow creating an emotional expression. A quote from her website caught my attention and gave me more insight into her artistic mantra. “An interesting phenomenon has emerged over the years I have been painting whereby some-thing makes its appearance that was previously hidden beneath the linear view of the subject. This “something” seems to be the very piece that breathes the life force into each object and from there emerges a unique and individual personal stamp. I am fascinated with catching this “some-thing” in its purest essence and reproducing it in color, form and emotion.” Jill paints wonderful vital women in series duplicating her life process…..markers so to speak…..tropical dream series, with a sense of peace in a jungle setting, women in the cocoon, butterfly women emerging from the cocoon, women contemplating flight, and women taking off in flight and freedom. The following quote from a “Prodigal Summer” by Barbara Kingsolver appears on her website, shedding more insight into her artistic journey.

“Her own nakedness startled her even; she normally slept in several layers. Awake in the early light with the wood thrushes, feeling the texture of the cool sheet against her skin, she

felt as jarred and disjunct as a butterfly molted extravagantly from a dim colored larva and

with no clue now where to fly.” And from her bio, Jill Logan “is dedicated to empowering women to live their dreams. She also tries to be a role model for children by liv-


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The sun, surf, blue skies, perfect tem-peratures are all

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nightclubs. It’s an adventure—and one that is authentically Mexican. Aside from being both beautiful and friendly, La Paz is rich in history, culture and tradition. Discovered by Cortez in 1535, the city didn’t become a permanent Spanish colony until 1811. Its rich pearl beds lured fortune seekers in the early days, and its deep harbor was a haven for Span-ish galleons. Pirates like Sir Frances Drake hid out in its coves, waiting for the opportunity to pillage and plunder. Between 1846 and 1848, American troops battled Mexican soldiers here. On April 15, 1847 the American flag was raised in La Paz, and Baja Califor-nia fell under US control. However, when the war concluded a year later, per the terms of the final treaty, the US gained California, Arizona and New Mexico. The Baja peninsula was supposed to be part of the deal, but political leaders decided they had suf-ficient Pacific ports with the acquisi-tion of San Francisco and San Diego. Essentially, the US let Mexico keep Baja. These days, life is a lot less crazy. In fact, the city is known as being muy “tranquilo” or very peaceful, which makes sense as La Paz literally means the peace. We have tourism, but not on the scale of a major resort like Los Cabos. Ecotourism is predominant

I live in La Paz. People who’ve never been here always ask me what it’s like. Since their barometer is most

likely Los Cabos, I begin with com-parisons and contrasts. La Paz is two hours north of the arch at Land’s End, so the climate and geography is very similar. That’s about it for the simi-larities. Now for the differences…. The capital of the state of Baja California Sur, La Paz is home to approximately 250,000 people—95% of whom are Mexican. Built along the edge of a large natural deep-water bay, the recreation here is all about calm, warm water, boats and beaches. The heart and soul of La Paz is the malecón—an oceanfront promenade that stretches over five miles along the bay—from the original La Paz Marina on the southwest to the newly opened Coromuel Aquatic Park on the north-east. Mexicans are known for their love of fiestas and the people of La Paz are no exception. Every year the city hosts Carnaval (like Mardi Gras) here. There are parades, concerts and special events happening all the time. We love strolling the malecón—especially at sunset. I get a gelato, Terry an ice cream cone, we grab each other’s hands and we join in with everyone else out to watch the sun sink behind the mountains and the sky light up in a symphony of hot pink, orange and gold. As night approaches, the sky becomes a perfect shade of periwinkle, the stars come out and the young local set cruises the malecón in their cars. There’s always music outdoors and in the many

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CAPRICHO’S New Restaurant BarExperience in La Paz

by Nanette Hayles

Caprichos shares a rare and wonderful history in down-town La Paz, because it is

housed in one of Baja Sur’s oldest homes. Built in the early 1890’s; restored and expanded in the 1940’s, Caprichos continues with the gran-deur that first inspired Francisco Aramburo, the homes original owner. The elegance and volume of the rooms echo with life of this histori-cal figure whose love of writing and photography mingle with present day patrons. It’s a rare experience to dine in such a place with décor that is inviting with luxury. Don’t be fooled by its elegance. It is a place to remind us how great and wonderful we all are: that somewhere there are places that exist that are truly beautiful and yes, we can also afford to eat there! Dishes are simple, healthy, fresh and unpretentiously presented with a slight flare. Meat and fish dishes are

cooked w i t h precis ion. Simple fresh garden organic salads are regulars that can be served with or without meat and fresh feta cheese. Special dishes are added according to the sea-sons when certain local foods and produce are available like mangos, eggplant, star fruit and lobster. Homemade pastas, breads and deserts are daily prepared and wood oven pizzas are a must to try. Capric-cio stocks an extensive wine selection, which includes wines from France, Italy, Australia, Chili, Argentina and the United States. Margaritas are great and the coffees aromatic and fresh. The background music is a sweet soft sophisticated jazz that one can dreamily go in and out of listening to, while talking and dining with friends and family. The other great thing about Caprichos, besides coming for a full meal, you can come for tapas and wine, latte and a pastry, or a great breakfast burrito with coffee. Greatambiance no matter how hungry you may or may not be! Simple food, elegant spacious decor, great wine, margaritas, cof-fee, history, family and friends spell Caprichos. Breakfast, lunch, dinners and a little bite to eat are served: Tuesday thru Sunday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Located near the main plaza in La Paz, Madero #312 between 5 de Mayo y Constitucion.

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Want to party hardy? Do you miss time share sales-men and vendors aggres-

sively hawking their wares? Enjoy skirmishes between tour buses and taxies? Like restaurants with high prices? Want the challenge of swim-ming at beaches that have rough,

cold water with undertows? Then La Paz is not for you. Come to La Paz if you want a quiet, calm, relaxing time. Even the locals, when I ask them what they like most about La Paz, answer, “Es muy tranquilo” or “It’s very tranquil.” My partner and I have lived full-

The QuietDelights of La Pazby J. Michael Sullivan

time in La Paz for two and half years. We have noted a syndrome among visitors and residents unique to this small city. We call it “getting La Paz’d.” Some of the symptoms included the following: sleeping more soundly than you have in years; forgetting what day it is; strolling and not power-walking; deciding that you can do your business tomorrow; tak-ing a siesta; enjoying leisurely meals; walking the malecon as the day’s major event; and floating in the calm beach waters watching the Frigate birds flock overhead. Want to get La Paz’d? Here are our tried-and-true suggestions, tested on many visitors and other residents. Take a panga, or small boat, to the marine sanctuary of Espiritu Santo. You will see pristine beaches, fantas-tic geological formations and abun-dant wild-life. Watch the dolphins frolic and the mantas somersault up, out and back into the sea. Swim with the sea lions and follow lunch on the beach with a swim. Our favorite tour originates from Tecolote beach. Go all the way to the end of the paved road to this beach. On the immediate left is a shack with a tour operation. Ask for Saul. He and his crew know their stuff. Take a walk on one of the longest malecons in the world. The paved, broad concourse runs along the bay for miles. View the famous, purple and gold La Paz sunsets. Watch local families take their evening “paseo” or walk. Look for bands performing or exhibits of anything from classic cars to “green” issues. Grab an ice-cream cone or a latte at one of the shops across the street. Acknowledge the locals when they say to you, unprompted, “Buenas dias” or “Good day.” Repeating the Spanish is a nice touch, but a simple smile will do. Sit in the “zocolo”, or town square “in the historic center. Watch the old

men sitting in the sun and the wor-shippers coming and going from the cathedral. Soak up some sun or, if it’s too hot, sit in the shade of the trees. Step into the cathedral. Sit or kneel and absorb the prayerful quiet. Get a hair cut at an old-time bar-bershop. Go up 16th of September Street. Turn left at the old, being-refurbished city hall that contains a tourist center with valuable guides and, sometimes, a free, English lan-guage newspaper out of Los Cabos. Look for the barbershop on the right side of the street, half-way up the block. You can watch folks outside eating tacos, make friends with the neighborhood dog and listen to the roosters several doors up crow. This is a barbershop that still does a lather and straight-edge, final neck trim and uses plenty of talcum powder on a brush with long, soft bristles. Eat at Café Calleon. The food is good and the prices reasonable. This is an internet café and you just might find yourself striking up a conversation with someone from Australia, France, Spain or some other country. Find La Perla Hotel on Obregon. On the left side of the hotel is an alley. Café Cal-leon is on the left side, a little more than half way up the ally towards downtown. While you’re there, look for For-rest, the guy that looks like Santa Claus after a serious diet, who is a permanent fixture at the restaurants in the ally. Introduce yourself and get his story about how he came to live in La Paz. I won’t give away the details except to say it’s interesting. Kayak the Bay of La Paz at your own skill level. Beginners will find that the channel on the northwest side of El Magote (the peninsula that looks like an island just out into the bay) easy to do. If you fall out, you can stand up except where the dredge goes. Explore the mangrove stands on El Magote. Check out the

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here and draws travelers from all over the world. Fishing, sailing, kayaking, scuba and all beach activities are popular. It’s common to hear people say—with a sigh—after visiting, “I love La Paz.” It sounds even better in Spanish: “Me encanta La Paz.”

In fact, we visitors who fall in love with La Paz and decide to make it our home are a diverse and rapidly growing group. We have become an international community of for-eigners—the majority of whom are Americans and Canadians, but many Europeans and Asians are choosing to live here as well. Real estate is about half as expensive as in Los Cabos and life is all around affordable. My husband and I love to eat out and have discovered that the restau-rant scene is evolving at a break neck pace. Just this year alone, we have tried five new restaurants. The first of these is Dalle Regazze, which is owned by three young Italian ladies. It’s right on the beach and the food, service and ambience are all exqui-site! In town at the old Aramaburo’s mansion is Capricho’s, which offers an eclectic European menu with an Italian flair. It’s on Madero near the main cathedral on what is blossoming into our own “restaurant row.” Right across the street is Las Tres Virgenes, serving alta cocina Mexicana or gour-met Mexican cuisine in a romantic courtyard setting. Newly opened on the malecón is Palermo’s—offering a tempting variety of upscale Conti-nental fare with a bay view. Possibly the best pizza in town is at Il Rustico on Revolución—another lovely court-yard dining experience. We enjoy wandering around town after sunset, soaking up life on the streets while searching for a new din-ing experience. If we’re in the mood for quick and easy, we stop in at a corner hot dog stand. They’re every-where and trust me, they rival New York City’s! What to do after dinner?

Music, art and culture abound here. In fact, for an up-to-the-minute report by the month, check out www.rozin-lapaz.blogspot.com. Roz is a retired Canadian journalist and she is the authority on what’s going on around town. Are you sufficiently enticed to want to visit? If you decide to vaca-tion in La Paz, it’s not mandatory to

fly into Cabo and rent a car. We do have a small inter-national air-port. Hotels? From west to east along the malecón, my favorites are La Perla, Club El Moro, La Concha and the Fiesta Inn. Both El Moro and La Con-

cha have timeshare affiliations. La Perla (www.hotelperlabaja.com) is front row and center, in the heart of all the action, by the main pier. El Moro (www.clubelmoro.com) is on the far end of the malecón, before it turns left. My husband and I lived there (with our dogs) for four months while buying and remodeling our home, so you can trust that we know it intimately! We love its peaceful-ness, its Moorish architecture, and the fact that our suite overlooked gardens with palms, flowers, fountains, palapa and pool, and, of course, the bay. The staff is friendly and helpful. Heading northeast out of town, you’ll pass Marina Palmira, the new Coromuel Aquatic Park—complete with a fishing pier, beachfront water slide, shops, restaurants and a stage for special events. La Concha Beach Resort (www.laconcha.com), sand-wiched between two new condo developments and the new Pedregal is just up the road. Right after that is

the scenic Marina Costa Baja—with its new, chic marina, shops and res-taurants, condos and the lovely Fiesta Inn. (www.costabajaresort.com) By summer of 2010 La Paz’ first golf course will be open here—a world class Gary Player course with ocean views from 14 of its 18 holes. The hotels end here, but continu-ing north past the Pemex plant and Pichilingue where ferries from Maza-tlán and Topolobampo dock, there are lovely beaches with palapas and res-taurants where you can eat barefoot in the sand—with only an occasional vendor! Toward the end of the road is La Balandra—La Paz’ most famous natural landmark. It’s around the cor-ner from the main beach, but once you see it, you’ll know it, because it’s shaped like a mushroom on a very skinny stem. It has been knocked off its precarious perch by storms more than once, and has been painstakingly restored and shored up in recent years. This is a favorite picnic spot for locals because its shallow, calm waters here are perfect for little kids and grannies alike. Around the corner is Tecolote Beach—another local favorite. Fac-ing north toward Isla Espiritú Santo (Holy Spirit Island), the beach is long, wide, with spun sugar sand and warm jade green water, framed by jagged mountains. There are three restaurants there, but our favorite is Palapa Azul. Order a meal or a snack. The seafood is the freshest, the menu extensive and the margaritas delicious. Palapa Azul rents kayaks, jet skis and offers tours to the island, where you can fish and even snorkel with sea lions. If you go a little further to the northeast, you’ll find the secluded Playa El Coy-ote. Bring a facemask or just splash around in the water. Well, the day is drawing to a close … and that means it’s time for our sunset stroll on the malecón. I’ll be back next issue with more insights on Lifestyle La Paz….

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thousands of starfish. Watch for dol-phin pods. Explore the “Roz in La Paz” web-site. Roz lists a variety of events and on-going group meetings of all kinds. These are typically free or low-cost and surprisingly frequent. But, because you’re not going to miss the London sympathy or the Russian bal-let, it’s also perfectly OK to just sit by the pool or take a stroll. Go to the beaches. Balandra beach is post-card perfect. Make sure to go around the small, rocky point on your right to get to the perfect crescent beach there. Balandra waters are shal-low and calm and warm up quickly. You can float to your heart’s content. Just remember to shuffle your feet to avoid stepping on a stingray. Want a beach that only locals visit? Drive out toward the airport and go through three small towns, includ-ing Centenario. Watch out for the speed bumps. At the Pemex station, stay right. Travel through a fantastic cactus forest towards the large hills ahead. Keep going. Distances in the desert are misleading. Start to climb the cliffs. Gasp at the views that resemble those of Sicily or Greece. Look for a small, green sign on the right side that says “Calfin.” Turn left and find a parking space close to the beach. Be prepared to see the turquoise waters splash off volcanic cliffs. Bring a bag for beach combing. Swim in water that is at least luke-warm almost year-round. The stone and shell collecting is fantastic. And oh, did I mention, only locals and no crowds? Sure, La Paz has some discos and bars. There is a small tourist area with souvenirs and trinkets. You can eat at expensive restaurants if you want. But maybe you’d rather be La Paz’d?

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While living in Los Cabos, a place with approximately 15-times more visitors and

tourists than inhabitants, you might wonder, who indeed your neighbor is. There are many interesting people living in Baja and in this column we will try to present you some of them.

Gonzalo Elizarraras, Multidisciplinary nomad.

Gonzalo changed his home town of Mexico City with approximately 22 million people for the small beau-tiful town of San Jose del Cabo, with some 40,000 residents. This just being the last colophon of his ever-moving nature, which has taken him around the world in his need to experiment and learn first-hand from people and situations. He remembers his first long trip, just before starting his pro-fessional education: “it was around 1996, and originally I went to Ireland (to study English)... during that year, I ended up spending six months work-ing as a volunteer in Merhavia, a Kib-butz north of Israel, and after found myself traveling around the Middle East and Europe, ending my journey in Italy where I spent a few months learning Italian in a small town on the north cost of Imperia.”

This nomad nature had Gon-zalo start his architectural studies in Mexico City and finish them up in Barcelona, where he also spent a couple of years working and gaining experience: “Before moving to Bar-celona, I collaborated with the office of Fernando Romero in Mexico, and then in Barcelona I had the oppor-tunity to work in such important firms as EMBT (Miralles+Tagliabue) as well as MAP architects (Josep Lluis Mateo). In these experiences I learned what it was to collaborate in a team-based environment, and even more importantly in an environment

where all people of the team might have different backgrounds, ages and nationalities”.

After spending almost 5 years in Barcelona and now a married man, Gonzalo decided to move back to his homeland, Mexico, and decided it was time to give it a try and open his own office. By that time, his wife Karla Llorens, a succesful Interior Designer, was already working on dif-ferent projects in Los Cabos. So they decided to open their business, fab-riKG, here in Baja and develop them-selves professionally in this beautiful desertic natural wonder.

Today, Gonzalo is involved in dif-ferent projects, all of them revolving around sustainable development of living spaces. He focuses and strongly believes in the analysis of existing urban systems in order to propose new and better solutions, something he says, he learned and came to understand working in Barcelona. He is also engaged in landscape architec-ture, which he states is not a separate but rather a cohesive part of architec-ture; all of this in order to generate a healthy ecology and green living with respect to Baja nature. What is his inspiration? He jumps immediately and says: “Nine Palms! ...or Cabo Pulmo! or Cabo Escondido at the Pacific side!... oh well, and Balandra in La Paz!, there’s so many amazing places, I could keep naming many oth-ers... They’re all inspiration for me”.

Landscaping as a Manifestation of architecture.

He explains: “For me landscape is the first manifestation of archi-tecture. Moving a huge rock in the Neolithic period is considered one of the first architectural expressions, when transforming the environment with a human intervention. The base for a successful landscape project is the planification of it, considering not just the beauty but the function and wise use of sources, like the dropping irrigation system which I learned while in Israel. We encourage our cli-ents to choose landscapes with plants adapted to dry season and hard sun, using less water (Xeriscapes), instead of tropical landscapes, accomplishing a natural connection with Baja´s con-ditions. It is not only fashionable to think green this days – it’s a must in our agenda! Our planet is expressing itself.”

“We don’t separate architectural design from landscaping design, inte-rior design from graphic design. Our

aim in fabriKG is to combine design disciplines from the inside to the out-side, combining the parts in a whole”, Gonzalo explains with this the mis-sion of the workshop (as he refers to his office).

As an architect, what interests Gonzalo the most is to study the complexity of urban systems and not static objects. Coming from Mexico City, a city that has grown with no control, no boundaries, no urban rela-tion between the parts but instead fragments that seem to hurt, invade and infect each other. Landscape urbanism interests him as means of invention, creation, and reaction that can absorb, control and evolve…

CAPA project, proposing alter-natives for the sustainable development.

Gonzalo and fabriKG formed the group CAPA in colaboration with two studios (a10 studio & COLEC-TIVOMX). CAPA is a collective of architects, urbanists and technicians. It is a research-based group propos-ing new alternatives for sustainable development in Baja California Sur. While writing this article, the proj-ect was just beginning, but by what I have seen so far, I am sure we will be hearing a lot more about CAPA project in the near future.

Project Efecto verde or The Green Effect.

EFECTO VERDE A.C. (www.efectoverde.org) is a project fabriKG is developing in Mexico City that they are about to apply in Baja too. Efecto verde is an urban symbiosis for cities and another step towards green architecture, applying green roofs, green walls and friendly environ-mental design. The first step will be to bring special pots for roofs, which provide 10 more years for our imper-meabilization system and which can lower our energy consumption by about 15% by planting the proper species over our roofs.

Gonzalo’s aim with fabriKG is also to create quality personal design for not just the 2% that can pay for it. “We strongly believe in the funda-mental importance to develop urban proposals of public spaces for the 98% of the population.”

fabriKG is based in San Jose del Cabo, with its founders Gonzalo and Karla who have been in Baja for 2 years, and now with associate Arch. Benjamin Scharf they are about to open a new office in Berlin, Ger-many, generating a networked offices system, which hopefully will keep spreading their ideas and goals to other latitudes.

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We are all concerned about drinking water. All but a few have installed some

type of water purification system in their home. Even so, many people still buy bottled water because they don’t really trust their system. It was probably installed when the home was built and who knows if it still works. I have discussed various methods of drinking water purification. We already know that reverse osmosis systems remove beneficial minerals producing acidic water, and require changing membranes and filters as needed. Of course the biggest nega-tive of a reverse osmosis system is that they waste so much water. For every gallon they produce, 3 to 4 gallons go down the drain. It is eco-logically irresponsible to waste that much water in a desert. You could flush your toilet two times with the water you waste making one gallon of R/O drinking water. Ultra-Violet (UV) systems work great when they are new, however, they require a yearly lamp change along with filters as well. If they do not have a water-softening device before the UV lens, they become quite ineffective and I wouldn’t drink that water either. Filtration systems are a good solu-tion. There are many different kinds to suit your needs and your wallet. Some require no filter change for years. Filtration does not strip your drinking water of essential miner-als and removes most contaminants. Recent technology has given us ultra-filtration as small as .02 microns. This is so small that it can filter out bacteria, viruses, cysts, etc. It can

What’s in your water?The Benefits of Ozone

by Bill Bugg, H2o Millenia

even filter out anthrax!! There are systems that can filter your whole house. These systems can get a little pricey, but you pay for what you get. There is one thing that none of these systems can do. Can you guess what it is? They cannot provide dis-infection all the way to your faucet. When your water leaves your typical purification system, that’s the end of disinfection. Any bugs that make their home in your pipes live on some of the dead or semi-dead carcasses that pass by on the way to your sink or toothbrush. And as clichés go, the best is yet to come! In September of 2001, the FDA approved the application of ozone for disinfecting and sanitizing food and food processing environ-ments. The applications can be in the air or dissolved in water. We are most interested ozone in water. Most people think of ozone as in smog or the ozone layer. Ozone occurs naturally on our planet. The most common source comes from lightning. We all have smelled the fresh sweet odor after a lightning storm. That’s ozone. Ozone also is formed by oxygen reacting with UV rays from the sun. That is responsible for the ozone layer. The ozone layer decreases during the winter and near our two poles because cloud cover blocks the sun’s UV rays. There is some evidence of ozone destruction by fluorocarbons, but my research shows it is still debatable. In any event, don’t stop using your sun block, just in case! Ozone is the most powerful and effective microbiological control and disinfecting agent available next to fluorine. It kills bacteria 3125 times

faster than chlo-rine. Unlike chlorine, ozone does not leave any chemicals that need to be removed after it disinfects. Ozone breaks down into oxygen. The list of what ozone can treat is very long. But basically that list con-sists of bacteria, protozoan, fungus, mold, all known viruses and more. When you combine a good quality filter and an ozone generator, you get a very effective water system that meets the FDA range for bottled water. I would challenge that there is better tasting water. Another advantage is that ozone water has a distinct smell, so you know your ozone unit is working. Show me another system that can do that! No more worrying if your filer system is functioning. But not to fret, the ozone breaks down very quickly into oxygen, which you can-not smell. We adapted a state of the art under-the-sink ozone system especially for use in Mexico. It is designed to remove or reduce micro-scopic particulate matter, chlorine, bacteria, fungi, heavy metals and other inorganic compounds. It also removes musty smells, stale and metallic tastes and odors, and then adds activated oxygen (ozone) as the final step of the process. As a bonus application, the micro-biological killing power of ozone will allow the user to minimize bacterial and viral counts on kitchen sponges, counter-tops, dishes, fruits, fish, veg-etables, etc. It will even remove the smell from your fingers after chop-ping garlic or onions. Making your own bottled water helps you become a better person by slowing down the filling of our land-fills, streets and beaches with plastic bottles. Aren’t you sick of seeing plastic bottles everywhere you go? Ozone has been protecting our planet long before man came along.

It i s n o t j u s t benef ic ia l to our lives; it is essential to our existence. Be sure to Google “ozone water” and see what is happening in the world of ozone as it relates to health and medicine. It is quite amazing…

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NEW PARTNERSHIPLas Villas de México • RMAC

by Brett Sawyer

Approximately two years ago Gerardo de Nicolas, the CEO of Homex – Mexico’s largest

homebuilder – met with his brothers (who share leadership and owner-ship of Homex) and key members of his advisory and management staff. He had a problem, and he had a vision. The problem was that while extraordinarily successful in build-ing homes in Mexico, he felt that Homex was missing out on a critical and valuable market. He saw that the luxury resort market was miss-ing several elements – including the presence of his family’s successful company. The potential solution was fun-damental, but the final solution was elegant. On its face, Las Villas de México – the resort brand that the de Nicolas family and staff are creating – is the luxury resort home product of Homex. However, the elegance comes from taking the proverbial “clean sheet of paper” and carefully analyzing what is good – and what is missing – in luxury home ownership in Mexico. The result was the pro-gressive – and somewhat aggressive – vision of creating resort communi-ties throughout the country. Build these in the most desirable locations for second-home, vacation home, and retirement home buyers such as Los Cabos, San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, and Puerto Vallarta. And build them with all the conve-niences and technological advances someone from perhaps Canada or the United States would find in their primary residence back home. Season them with all the pamper-ing amenities one could imagine

from a luxury hotel, and then do something completely outrageous – create a program whereby hom-eowners exchange their residences with homeowners at other Las Vil-las de México resorts in destination locations throughout Mexico. Of course explaining to prospec-tive buyers such an innovative and progressive development plan can be challenging. To achieve that need Homex, along with HXM Tour-ism Division – Homex’s subsidiary focusing on luxury resort real estate – has teamed with real estate mar-keting and sales experts RMAC and Associates, Inc. of Lafayette, Califor-nia. RMAC has demonstrated their skill in educating buyers of Mexican real estate through their represen-tation of El Dorado Ranch in San Felipe, BC. RMAC has sold more than 8,000 properties at El Dorado Ranch and already more than 2,000 residents have built homes in its 54 communities. Still more similar to Las Villas de México is La Ventana del Mar, El Dorado Ranch’s sister commu-nity. This gated seaside community – like Las Villas de México – has underground utilities, an 18-hole championship golf course, and finished residences. It is RMAC’s success with El Dorado Ranch and La Ventana del Mar that inspired Homex and HXM Tourism Division to partner with them anticipating an equal success in their representing Las Villas de México. RMAC and Las Villas de México will have sales offices present at each of their cur-rent developments – Club Camp-estre San Jose, Puerto Cancun and Puerto Vallarta/Punta Mita – along with hosting a number of sales events throughout the United States and Canada. Homex and HXM Tourism Divi-sion are proud to announce their alignment with RMAC and the col-lective team of professionals that will represent the successful sales of Las Villas de México – Michael Cresci and Rob Rios, owners of RMAC; Bob Webb, National Sales Director; Greg Miele, Regional Sales Manager; and Jim Person, Los Cabos Sales Manager – all based in San Jose del Cabo; and Brett Sawyer, International Sales Director based in Colorado.

On May 1st, The Settlement Company® Mexico’s oldest escrow and title company

celebrated eighteen years of serving the real estate industry. The com-pany has also played a major role in educating realtors and the public, thanks to the dedicated work and research of company founder Linda Neil who tackled various subjects and laws, including the elements of a contract, Ejidal land and how can you tell if a title is legal. Commenting on the anniversary. Alicia Parra, Executive Closing Officer shared, “During my fourteen years with the company, we have helped clients obtain titles at most of the major developments in Baja California Sur. The company has completed closings all over Mainland Mexico from Cancun to Puerto Laz-ero Cardenas.”. The company has the Trade Mark for The Virtual Closing® and has become a specialist in the process. It allows buyers to obtain titles without unnecessary travel to Mexico.

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Dear Darlin’ Destino Reader,My last two columns focused on

outlying regions... East Cape and the Pacific areas...whilst this issue we’re focusing more on what is considered a little more mainstream.

Before you delve forward, I’d like to address little local R.E. real-ity. This is the first time (in my 20 years of residency) that Los Cabos has enjoyed such dramatically fabulous inventory and until today enjoyed unheard of pricing. Those “in-the-know,” (saw Donald Trump on a talk show last week and he wholeheartedly agreed with me, Buyer’s market, time to strike!) are the ones taking advan-tage of these current opportunities. Those that step back, with what may be considered prudence, may well be left-out/left-back and disappointed in the very near future. As the R.E. savvy knows, NOW is the time buy with eager sellers making amazing “deals”!

CORRIDOR ACTIVITY

I can hear all the moans from you read-ers of the school of instant gratification so I’ll veer away from pre-construction and lots for sale and talk about some properties that may be more to your liking!

CUMBRE del TEZAL Juan Rueda reached out to me about the project he’s promoting called, CUMBRE del TEZAL & Luna del Tezal, built and developed by Homex, the most important urban developer in Mex-ico and the only construction com-pany that is listed in the Mexican and NYSE stock exchanges with HXM name. Located in the hills above Costco, next to the only sport club in the area, 2 & 3 bedroom floor plans with attractive pricing.

THE ENCHANTMENT Located in the Tezal development, go right at the pool store, high up the mountain with stunning vistas and a price that offers Land’s End views for under $200,000. The project already has houses built and sold and will also be offering fractional sales for those seasonal visitors.

LAS FALDAS DE LA ALCAZABARe-Max Los Cabos threw a couple wing-dings for their newly re-con-structed condo development. On

Paseo Finisterra, in San Jose, located directly across the street from the Mayan Palace Golf Course entrance. Nicely priced comfortable courtyard village style condos of 1, 2 & 3 bed-room configurations.

OASIS PALMILLADel Mar Developers recently launched their Oasis Palmilla, located on Lot 9 in Palmilla Oasis. Snell Real Estate has partnered with Del Mar Devel-opers and HMB Partners to launch the first two homes. These sprawling properties are situated on the larg-est homesites available in the entire Palmilla Resort, averaging an acre in size. Each home has been custom designed with individual floor plans to enhance their views and privacy. In the $4 million dollar range. We’ll finish up the party circuit with the AUBERGE Private Residences at Esperanza grand opening event held at the exquisite on-site seaside dining establishment, El Restaurante. Inside the private sanctuary of Punta Ballena, the ballyhoo of the resort’s “barefoot elegance,” kinda says it all about high end Los Cabos, no?! All prior releases have sold out. Less than thirty-six, move-in ready, $2 million residences remain.

A MENTION IN CABOHACIENDA RESORT CABOTheir marketing image is “Inspired Living in the heart of Cabo San Lucas,” The Medano Beachfront Villas and Resort Residences are old hacienda-style beauty, which is awash with all modern-day amenities. Created by the uncompromising vision of two acclaimed developers Koll Company (developers of both Palmilla & Cabo del Sol) and Del Mar Development, building partner and provider of world renowned property manage-ment and concierge services (known for the unparalleled Villas del Mar homes). Providing financial backing is the Starwood Capital Group, an acknowledged leader in global R.E. development, together these 3 giants are united in their vision of creating a significant opulent landmark and a treasured retreat.

Okey dokey then, I’ve overstepped my verbiage bounds but return next issue for yet more of the never fully tapped Los Cabos Real Estate scene!My very best to all that live here (andaspire to live here) and spend quality time within our fair vicinity!

Best, Eva-Marie

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As of June 13, 2003, the Mexi-can Credit Instrument law was amended relating to the

trust agreement “fideicomiso” sec-tion, mainly in regard to the trust agreement guaranteeing debts. The law states that the “trust agreement to guarantee debts” or “fideicomiso en garantía” may be utilized when a debtor guarantees a debt to a creditor by transferring one or more properties or rights (whether personal property or real estate property) as col-lateral, to a trustee provided that the latter follows the precise instructions agreed by the parties including fore-closing procedure to avoid a breach of contract. The amendments of June 13, 2003, reinforced the complete chapter of the trust agreement to guarantee debts whereby the creditor has suf-ficient legal certainty that the collat-eral will be protected. Furthermore, if the debtor defaults the creditor can foreclose and take possession of the collateral pursuant to a short and simple procedure without the Mexi-

Things are moving along nicely out at the stunning beachfront development of El Encanto

located 3 miles east up the coast from the new marina at Puerto Los Cabos. El Encanto now has 20 homes and 21 condos with 20 more homes coming and at least 40 more condos.

The community feel of El Encanto is progressing. A formal HOA has been established, there is more land-scaping, a bigger desalination plant has been purchased and treated recy-cled water is being used for landscap-ing to be energy-efficient and to keep costs down. The gravity-fed system uses less power, resulting in better value for the community and lower maintenance costs for landscaping. Homeowners are getting to know each other, enjoying the peace and serenity of the small boutique-style beach-front community There is now a concierge service. The in-house team can set up the home before owners arrive, leaving owners happy to show up and find all is ready for them to enjoy their resort-style living. In-house massage and cooking services are also available. Future plans include: Club El Encanto with a restaurant bar and grill, a fitness center, relocated admin-istration offices, a tennis court and a spa area. For more information visit www.elencantoloscabos.net.

El Encanto Updateby Marshall Ellingson

FORECLOSING IN MEXICO

without Court Interventionby Javier Troncoso, Esq.

can courts intervention in which the trustee acts as arbitrator. The Credit Instrument law estab-lishes that the following entities may act as trustees in trust agreements to guarantee compliance of an obliga-tion assumed by a debtor and the creditor’s first lien payment prefer-ence against the collateral.1. Credit institutions (banks);2. Insurance institutions;3. Bonding institutions;4. Stock exchange houses;5. Limited Financial entities 6. General warehouse deposit. Except for credit institutions (banks), the above-mentioned enti-ties may not act as trustees for stan-dard trust agreements “fideicomisos”. Additionally, the parties may agree that the collateral held in a trust agreement to guarantee debts may be under the possession of the debtor or any third party appointed by the parties. Furthermore, such debtor or third party that has possession of the collateral bears the risk of any loss or damage to the value of the goods and must allow the other parties to inspect such goods to verify its con-servation. The parties may agree that if the value of the collateral diminished in such way that it is not enough to

guarantee the debt; the debtor must contribute additional collateral to replace the original value. Otherwise, the credit will be due in advance allowing the creditor to enforce the debt by notifying it to the debtor. If the depository of the collateral denies delivering to the trustee such collat-eral then, the enforceability of such possession delivery will take place in a summary and expedite court pro-cedure established by the Mexican commerce code. The trustee may proceed to trans-fer (foreclose) the collateral held in guarantee without the Mexican courts intervention provided that the following rules are established in the trust agreement to guarantee debts. i) The trustee must receive from the creditors a precise written com-munication requesting foreclosure on the collateral specifying the breach of the guaranteed obligation(s). ii) The trustee must notify the debtor in writing to the domicile established in the trust agreement of the above-mentioned request together with a copy of such request. The debtor may only oppose the foreclosure if it proves that the out-standing debt has been paid or that the obligations established in the trust agreement have been previously complied or that an obligation has been modified (i.e. payment exten-sion). iii) If the debtor does not prove compliance with one or more of the obligations the trustee will proceed to foreclose on the collateral with-out the intervention of the Mexican courts. iv) The contents of the trust agree-ment must contain the terms to carry out the foreclosing procedure. The creditor will be paid with the proceeds of the transfer (foreclosure) of the collateral held in the trust agreement to guarantee debts. Finally, the Credit Instrument law imposes a criminal sanction to the persons that have possession of the collateral held in guarantee when transferring, imposing liens or affect-ing their ownership or possession, in terms not authorized by the law and when the value of such collateral have been intentionally diminished. In conclusion, there is a solid legal vehicle to secure transactions relating to real or personal properties by using the trust agreement to guarantee debts. This legal instrument may be used to finance real property trans-actions between private parties with the certainty that the intervention of the courts will not be necessary in case of foreclosing real properties. Questions? [email protected]

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