This state, which shares a border with the United States (233 km with California, equivalent to 144.8 miles, and 32 km with Arizona, equivalent to 19.88 miles) has played a significant role in relations between Mexico and its northern neighbor.
You provide a nice counter-point to what I've been writing today (and hope to get out sometime tonight or tomorrow... should I be up to it, not being in the best of health). Agreed, there are "bad apples" in every political party/movement on the planet, and BC seems to have had more than its fair share... then again, given what's across the border, in terms of its insatiable appetite for the forbidden, the temptation is understandable.
I admit that as a historian, I have a soft spot for Abelardo Rodriguez... a crook "mostly on the side of the little people". He apparently always felt inadequate for his lack of formal education, and shook down the narcotics smugglers -- and during US Prohibition, liquor (an informal "export duty") to finance expanded public education, including founding the University of Baja California and involved in financing other state universities.
Oh wow. Firstly, what a post today. And I didn't know that about Salinas possibly calling for the execution. He certainly skipped out at the right time, now happily in, is it, Ireland? with oodles of $. I recall his brother died in prison. The info about the Arrellano Felix bros. was very interesting. I learned most of what I know about them from the Nflx series. It seemed accurate, do you think it was?
Salinas's older brother, Raúl, was imprisoned for 10 years (1995–2005) on charges of murdering his former brother-in-law, José Francisco Ruiz, who was serving as Secretary General of the PRI at the time of his death in September 1994. Another of Carlos's younger brothers, Enrique, was murdered in the State of Mexico in 2004. As for the Netflix series, I couldn't tell you, because I didn't watch it. Best regards.
Salinas took Spanish citizenship, but apparently resides in London. That Netflix series (that I did watch) might best be described as "historical fiction"... not quite as inaccurate as a Mel Gibson epic, but biased towards both US popular beliefs, and what made the most spectacular storyline.
Your comparison to Mel’s epic(s) made me laugh. So what about Arellano Felix stealing the election? For (think it was if memory serves) Salinas).True or false—first time they manipulated electronically, which made my skin crawl. Shades of other big cheeses in different locales. I knew Salinas got Spanish passport/citizenship pulling way back on his mother’s side or something, but lives London.
You provide a nice counter-point to what I've been writing today (and hope to get out sometime tonight or tomorrow... should I be up to it, not being in the best of health). Agreed, there are "bad apples" in every political party/movement on the planet, and BC seems to have had more than its fair share... then again, given what's across the border, in terms of its insatiable appetite for the forbidden, the temptation is understandable.
I admit that as a historian, I have a soft spot for Abelardo Rodriguez... a crook "mostly on the side of the little people". He apparently always felt inadequate for his lack of formal education, and shook down the narcotics smugglers -- and during US Prohibition, liquor (an informal "export duty") to finance expanded public education, including founding the University of Baja California and involved in financing other state universities.
Oh wow. Firstly, what a post today. And I didn't know that about Salinas possibly calling for the execution. He certainly skipped out at the right time, now happily in, is it, Ireland? with oodles of $. I recall his brother died in prison. The info about the Arrellano Felix bros. was very interesting. I learned most of what I know about them from the Nflx series. It seemed accurate, do you think it was?
Salinas's older brother, Raúl, was imprisoned for 10 years (1995–2005) on charges of murdering his former brother-in-law, José Francisco Ruiz, who was serving as Secretary General of the PRI at the time of his death in September 1994. Another of Carlos's younger brothers, Enrique, was murdered in the State of Mexico in 2004. As for the Netflix series, I couldn't tell you, because I didn't watch it. Best regards.
Salinas took Spanish citizenship, but apparently resides in London. That Netflix series (that I did watch) might best be described as "historical fiction"... not quite as inaccurate as a Mel Gibson epic, but biased towards both US popular beliefs, and what made the most spectacular storyline.
Your comparison to Mel’s epic(s) made me laugh. So what about Arellano Felix stealing the election? For (think it was if memory serves) Salinas).True or false—first time they manipulated electronically, which made my skin crawl. Shades of other big cheeses in different locales. I knew Salinas got Spanish passport/citizenship pulling way back on his mother’s side or something, but lives London.
Salinas obtained Spanish citizenship by proving his Sephardic ancestry through his mother, which, under Spanish law, qualifies him for citizenship.
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