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Old 08-26-13, 05:57 PM   #21
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the flora and fauna of Baja are second to none in my opinion. Add to that fact, Boojums grow very slowly especially in southern california, and cost a fortune up here. Like $300 for a small one. I never understood why desert plants from Baja don't grow quickly and well in areas like El Centro etc. It seems the climate is basically the same. Or why Saguaros tend to grow in AZ but hardly any wild plants exist anywhere in CA, even at the eastern end.
Old 08-26-13, 06:27 PM   #22
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You can get shot by a bored youth in San Diego, but that's very unlikely and they won't get away with it. Chance of prosecuting a murder case in San Diego is very high. Terrible things happen all over, even in good areas but the likelihood is low. You do not have to avoid reporting things to the police for the most part here, and crime is not well tolerated in most areas of the county. Routine criminal activity is more embedded into the civic framework of society in some parts of Mexico, and it seems to have gotten much worse in the past 20 - 30 years.
Good point. As you said, the prosecution rate of a murder case in San Diego is very high. Did you know in Mexico it is 2%. 1.8% actually. How sad is that? In the USA you have a good chance of getting your pound of flesh if accountability and justice are important to you. Thousands of Meixcan families would just he happy to get their flesh and blood back for a proper burial. This fact doesn't matter much if you believe you could never be a crime victim in Meixco. It will matter a lot to the family you leave behind that has a 98.2% chance of never knowing what happenend to you. It'll cost them their life savings and they'll end up with nothing.
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"According to Mexico's national statistics institute, just 1.8 percent of the homicides registered in 2012 have resulted in a sentence, a grim reminder of the challenges that Mexico faces in speeding up its judicial process.

As Animal Politico reports, sentences have been issued in just 523 of the 27,500 homicides registered in Mexico last year, according to statistic agency INEGI.

The numbers show that in two states, Hidalgo and Tlaxcala, no homicide cases from last year resulted in sentences.

Things aren't much better in some of Mexico's most crime-racked regions, including San Luis Potosi (where 99.6 percent of homicide cases have not been resolved), Sinaloa (99.2 percent), Chihuahua (98.3 percent), Tamaulipas (97.5 percent), and Michoacan (96.8 percent).

The state with the highest rate of sentencing is the Federal District, although 81.4 percent of cases here remain unsolved.

As noted by Animal Politico, local governments have misleadingly registered some murder cases as "processed" – meaning that a suspect was presented before a judge – even though they ultimately did not result in a sentence. In Hidalgo, for example, 106 people were reported as having been "processed," although none of the cases saw convictions.

InSight Crime Analysis

The challenges facing Mexico's judiciary are well noted. It is not just a matter of stalled homicide cases – last year, the Attorney General's Office reported that only 30 percent of those detained on drug trafficking charges between 2007 and 2011 were convicted. The United Nations has said that 90 percent of those arrested during the first five years of President Felipe Calderon's administration eventually went free.

Improving the efficiency of the judiciary remains one of the major challenges facing President Enrique Peña Nieto, as it was under Calderon, who oversaw a series of dramatic reforms in 2008. One issue is the number of public servants who still need to trained in Mexico's new accusatorial trial system. The US is helping with this, but the process is moving slowly.'

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Ameri...cases-unsolved
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Old 08-27-13, 09:31 AM   #23
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the flora and fauna of Baja are second to none in my opinion. Add to that fact, Boojums grow very slowly especially in southern california, and cost a fortune up here. Like $300 for a small one. I never understood why desert plants from Baja don't grow quickly and well in areas like El Centro etc. It seems the climate is basically the same. Or why Saguaros tend to grow in AZ but hardly any wild plants exist anywhere in CA, even at the eastern end.
Boojums need some fog, it would seem? Baja being so narrow gets a lot of Pacific fog right to nearly the gulf side. You don't see too many boojums on the gulf coast, but within a few miles of the coast... like along the road to L.A. Bay. They just stop growing about where you first can see the gulf. They also don't grow too close to the Pacific coast, but within about 5 miles. Boojums growing on Angel Island and in Sonora must get enough humidity from the gulf or there is enough 'gulf fog'?

It takes nearly 30 years for a boojum to grow a meter and the tallest boojum was over 50 feet high and estimated at 360 years of age. We saw one that was at least that tall/ long a wind had recently blown over, near Montevideo, in 2001. The trunk was huge...


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