Baja California Quotes

One’s options in this world are as vast as the horizon, which is technically a circle and thus infinitely broad. Yet we must choose each step we take with utmost caution, for the footprints we leave behind are as important as the path we will follow. They’re part of the same journey — our story.

Summer’s ending and the closest thing I’ve had to an adventure was a Google search of Baja California.

On Friday the 13th of April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup, will fly so close to Earth, that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, it's named Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death. If the trajectory of Apophis at close approach passes within a narrow range of altitudes called the 'keyhole,' the precise influence of Earth's gravity on its orbit will guarantee that seven years later in 2036, on its next time around, the asteroid will hit Earth directly, slamming in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. The tsunami it creates will wipe out the entire west coast of North America, bury Hawaii, and devastate all the land masses of the Pacific Rim. If Apophis misses the keyhole in 2029, then, of course, we have nothing to worry about in 2036.

What have I to fear but starvation?" Kino asked.

People think Baja California is the desert, and the desert is one single, flat, lonely space. Baja California is mountain ridges, clouds of fog spreading over the land, the salt fields, the shocking sight of a valley shaded by date palms, the orchards where olives grow, the stone missions with sun-dried adobe bricks left to crumble into dust, ancient caves decorated with two-headed serpents, —and yes, the desert dotted with cacti.

By the time Professor Krutch retired from Columbia, he moved to Arizona and embarked on a new profession: biologist. He studied the ecology of the desert. In his autobiography, he asserts that the ideal would be to change professions every seven years. He started out originally to become a mathematician, was a biographer, writer, critic, professor and, later in life, a biologist. He appeared several times on national T.V. in 1958-9, discussing the fauna and flora of Arizona and of Baja California. It was my privilege to be his student. On T.V. I relished the sight of him and the sound of his voice. His autobiography "More Lives than One" gives the whole picture of this universal man, the life of this extraordinary intellectual, of his unbounded curiosity and depth of observation.

Each scenario is about fifteen million years into the future, and each assumes that the Pacific Plate will continue to move northwest at about 2.0 inches per year relative to the interior of North America. In scenario 1, the San Andreas fault is the sole locus of motion. Baja California and coastal California shear away from the rest of the continent to form a long, skinny island. A short ferry ride across the San Andreas Strait connects LA to San Francisco. In scenario 2, all of California west of the Sierra Nevada, together with Baja California, shears away to the northwest. The Gulf of California becomes the Reno Sea, which divides California from Nevada. The scene is reminiscent of how the Arabian Peninsula split from Africa to open the Red Sea some 5 million years ago. In scenario 3, central Nevada splits open through the middle of the Basin and Range province. The widening Gulf of Nevada divides the continent form a large island composed of Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California, and western Nevada. The scene is akin to Madagascar’s origin when it split form eastern Africa to open the Mozambique Channel.

Son los descendientes de los galeotes de Colón, de los castellanos ambiciosos y haraganes que asaltaron México y Perú: son los cazadores de los nativos del África, los implacables negreros; son los mismos buscadores frenéticos de oro del Yukón o la Baja California; los que torturaron a Atahualpa para arrebatarle sus tesoros; los dueños de los cauchales del Amazonas, de las plantaciones de la Malasia. Son los siempre errantes, los siempre ambiciosos, los despiadados. Nunca siembran, ni plantan, ni fecundan. Desarraigan, destrozan, hieren, matan. Su misión es arrancar y violar. Por donde pasan los pequeños Atilas hambrientos, no vuelve a crecer el pasto, ni las aguas, ni los peces. Tienen la mirada dura, ansiosa. No conocen la piedad. Su vista sólo se posa buscando algo para despojar, para apoderarse, para llevarse consigo. Su única meta es el botín. Su única ley, la codicia. Caminan sobre muertos, dejan detrás desiertos, árboles tronchados, tierras removidas, paisajes mustios y secos. Los empuja la vida, el ansia de vivir, pero sólo llevan por doquiera la muerte. Son como las suntuosas enredaderas parásitas, que sólo largan la presa cuando la han exprimido por completo.

What is proximate for one nation, one organization, or even one person may be far out of reach to another. The obvious reason is differences in skills and accumulated resources. My understanding of this was sharpened during an afternoon discussion about helicopters. A man I know only as PJ lives on the East Cape of Baja California, about thirty miles north of San Jose del Cabo, on the Sea of Cortez. He is now a surfer and fisherman, but PJ was once a helicopter pilot, first in Vietnam, and then in rescue work. The land in Baja California is unspoiled by shopping malls, industry, paved highways, or fences. Sitting on a hilltop in the warm winter we could see the gray whales jump and hear their tails slap on the water. Making conversation, I offered that “helicopters should be safer than airplanes. If the engine fails, you can autorotate to the ground. It’s like having a parachute.” PJ snorted. “If your engine fails you have to pull the collective all the way down, get off the left pedal and hit the right pedal hard to get some torque. You have about one second to do this before you are dropping too fast.” He paused and then added, “You can do it, but you better not have to think about it.” “So, everything has to be automatic?” I asked.

I met a man in Baja California who left his life in Texas to start fresh. He said he’d had a family, but it “got complicated,” so he left. Now, in his sixties, he lives on the beach in a camper van. When I spent two summers in Alaska as a teenager, I remember seeing the same thing. There were so many grizzled men with wrinkles acquired from wrongdoing. They came to Alaska to forget and to be forgotten. The state seemed full of them. Patagonia is like that, too. The ends of the earth. The places that do not ask follow-up questions. I know I have it in me. In a small, frightening way, I have felt it when I’ve failed and my soul hardens like a statue. I’ve felt a surge of shame flip some switch and turn me cold. Meticulous. Surgical. I won’t live like that. It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it’s possible to fail and remain. —

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La CNDH importa mucho. Había tenido la suficiente capacidad y autonomía para oponerse al presidente cuando se violaban los derechos humanos. La CNDH fue muy crítica con Peña Nieto, por ejemplo, en el caso de Ayotzinapa, y con Calderón por el incendio en la Guardería ABC. Bajo la presidencia de Rosario Piedra, la CNDH no ha hecho recomendaciones críticas al gobierno de AMLO. Las que se tienen registradas son sobre los derechos humanos de mujeres encarceladas en centros penitenciarios de Baja California, sobre la contaminación del río Suchiapa, en Chiapas, y sobre la violación a los derechos humanos que supone la instalación y la operación de una cervecera en Mexicali, Baja California.

Wikipedia: Reconquista (Mexico) A prominent advocate of Reconquista was the Chicano activist and adjunct professor Charles Truxillo (1953–2015) of the University of New Mexico (UNM). He envisioned a sovereign Hispanic nation, the República del Norte (Republic of the North), which would encompass Northern Mexico, Baja California, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. He supported the secession of US Southwest to form an independent Chicano nation and argued that the Articles of Confederation gave individual states full sovereignty, uncluding the legal right to secede. Truxillo, who taught at UNM's Chicano Studies Program on a yearly contract, suggested in an interview, "Native-born American Hispanics feel like strangers in their own land." He said, "We remain subordinated. We have a negative image of our own culture, created by the media. Self-loathing is a terrible form of oppression. The long history of oppression and subordination has to end" and that on both sides of the US–Mexico border "there is a growing fusion, a reviving of connections.... Southwest Chicanos and Norteño Mexicanos are becoming one people again." Truxillo stated that Hispanics who achieved positions of power or otherwise were "enjoying the benefits of assimilation" are most likely to oppose a new nation and explained: There will be the negative reaction, the tortured response of someone who thinks, "Give me a break. I just want to go to Wal-Mart." But the idea will seep into their consciousness, and cause an internal crisis, a pain of conscience, an internal dialogue as they ask themselves: "Who am I in this system?" Truxillo believed that the República del Norte would be brought into existence by "any means necessary" but that it would be formed by probably not civil war but the electoral pressure of the region's future majority Hispanic population. Truxillo added that he believed it was his duty to help develop a "cadre of intellectuals" to think about how the new state could become a reality.

Jonas registered his blood pressure rising. “First off, the lagoon was never intended to be a habitat for a six-foot predator; it was designed to accommodate pregnant Humpback whales migrating south along the California coast who could not reach Baja before birthing their young.

I saw myself as I’d just been captured for posterity. Little old lady with possum-gray hair falling across her face. Baja T-shirt scrunched up to expose little-old-lady midriff. Toothy shark slipper raised in elderly menace. How soon would the photo show up on the internet? Like a California-road version of those strange “Walmart People” pictures that are always popping up on Facebook. Would I be displayed between a droopy-jeans man bent over to expose a crack the size of the San Andreas fault and an oversized woman bulging out of a thong as she licked a carton of strawberry ice cream?

Valiéndome de los discursos liberales y la corriente positivista me propuse crear una identidad para todos los mexicanos, un nacionalismo que nos hiciera sentir orgullosos lo mismo en Coahuila que en Oaxaca, en Baja California que en Yucatán, y la historia nacional y la antropología eran un campo perfecto para realizar aquella proeza. Se inició la creación de mitos (como el de los Niños Héroes) y de héroes patrios sin mancha (como Benito Juárez), así como la enseñanza de batallas importantes (como la batalla del 5 de mayo).

2007, el porcentaje nacional de crimen y violencia fue más bajo que nunca, con 8 de homicidios dolosos por cada 100 mil habitantes. En 2009 subió a 18, como resultado de la guerra de Calderón. Esta cifra sigue siendo inferior a la de los países mencionados (El Salvador 49, Venezuela 48, Guatemala 43, Brasil 26 y Colombia 34), aunque por supuesto, como ya se ha dicho, es mayor que en Estados Unidos y Europa.4 El porcentaje escamotea, sin embargo, enormes brechas entre regiones y estados. Sinaloa y Chihuahua sufren los índices más altos, con 43 y 42 homicidios por cada 100 mil habitantes; Guerrero, Durango y Baja California le siguen: entre 27 y 30.5 Estas cifras, con los encabezados de periódicos y los noticieros de la televisión, hacen que el Chicago de la Prohibición se parezca a un barrio próspero de Zurich o Ginebra. Pero se conocen grandes porciones del país donde la inseguridad y la violencia resultan prácticamente desconocidas. Mérida es una de estas ciudades, con menos de 2 homicidios dolosos por cada 100 mil habitantes cada año, esto es, ni siquiera un sexto del promedio nacional y veinte veces menos que Sinaloa.

Kolonia Santita imesambaa dunia nzima. Hapa Meksiko wana magenge rafiki zaidi ya mia moja yakiwemo makubwa kabisa katika Latino ya Matamolos na Baja California. Nikitekwa nyara na memba yoyote wa magenge hayo, kuna uwezekano mkubwa wasinifanye chochote au nisilipe chochote kwa sababu ya Wanda. Fadhila ya uhalifu. Kwa sababu ya fadhila ya uhalifu; baba, au viongozi wengine wa serikali ambao watoto wao wamo ndani ya 'mpango' huo, wanatakiwa wawakingie kifua (kwa namna yoyote wanayoweza) pindi wanapoanguka katika mikono ya dola na sheria. Wasipofanya hivyo kutakuwa na vita ya ndani kwa ndani … kama unanielewa. Hivyo, kuna mtu anaitwa El Tigre – baba yake Wanda – ndiye ninayetaka unisaidie. Amemuua Marciano, na watu wengi wa Meksiko. Nataka kumlipia kisasi Marciano, na marafiki zangu wengi ambao El Tigre amewaua, hata kwa njia isiyodhahiri.

The second time, we chose The Sea of Cortez in Mexico, which is protected by the Peninsula of Baja California and has spectacularly easy sailing, secure anchorages, good prices and wonderful, warm people (don't believe anything you see in the movies or anything Donald Trump says about Mexicans). There

razonaba Juárez, era preferible expropiar al clero, con todas sus consecuencias, que vender la Baja California a los Estados Unidos.

It was soon clear as we ground through traffic that though Calexico, California, was a small town, Mexicali, on the other side of the thirty-foot fence, was a city of a million people, with an international airport, a large cathedral, a bullring, two museums, hospitals, four universities, a dental school, several public libraries, and industrial areas, sprawling in the desert of Baja,

Terry nodded. “My father’s dream. He designed it to be a living laboratory, a natural yet protective environment for its future inhabitants. Each winter tens of thousands of whales migrate along California’s coastal waters to Baja. Masao is convinced we can coax a few pregnant females inside to give birth.” Jonas nodded. “Marine science meets family entertainment.