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[ClamSlammer]

Tried to find my answer in earlier posts but no luck. I have not been to Tijuana since the formal border was activated. Is it satisfactory to use a passport CARD to cross over and back? I did read about having to buy a visa at the border, this is new to me.

Yes you can use a USA Passport card to cross into Mexico and back to the USA When entering Mexico on foot, you will be asked the duration of your stay. If you state 7 days or less, you will be granted a free 7 day visa. If you state more than 7 days, you will be required to purchase a 180 visa for approximately $25 dls. Even if you are staying more than 7 days, you can always state less than 7 days and not pay for the 180 day visa. Once you cross into Mexico no government agency ever asks to see your visa.

[Ak233]

Tried to find my answer in earlier posts but no luck. I have not been to Tijuana since the formal border was activated. Is it satisfactory to use a passport CARD to cross over and back? I did read about having to buy a visa at the border, this is new to me.

[Baxter Slade]

I am thinking of starting a Charles schwab account. I have always used USA Dollars in mexico. Do you save enough money using pesos? On SG? Hk chicas? Other bg? Everything else in Tijuana. Thank you for any advice.

SG's for sure a lot of them still use the scale $20 is equal to 200 pesos. A huge savings using pesos. Other things not so much.

[WombatEd2]

I am thinking of starting a Charles schwab account. I have always used USA Dollars in mexico. Do you save enough money using pesos? On SG? Hk chicas? Other bg? Everything else in Tijuana. Thank you for any advice.

I've been using my Schwab Bank debit card for several years now. The exchange rate you get seems to be better than the money changer storefronts on either side of the border. And there are no add-on fees.

There are very few places in Tijuana where you'll do better with dollars than with pesos. And there are some places, where you'll do a LOT better with pesos. (Especially Hong Cong, the bar girls, and the street girls.).

[LovesToSploog]

When I saw an escort on Saturday from Musas, it was 210 dollars or 3,800 pesos for two hours, I saved a little but in the long run it adds up. In strip clubs, tip in dollars and pay in pesos or see which is a better rate. It's easy to convert the pesos since it's usually halved minus a decimal, for example 100 pesos would be roughly 5 dollars. Get the Schwab card, it's worth it.

I am thinking of starting a Charles schwab account. I have always used USA Dollars in mexico. Do you save enough money using pesos? On SG? Hk chicas? Other bg? Everything else in Tijuana. Thank you for any advice.

[D Cups]

Hi guys,

PM me if you want to hook up for cervezas 4/2 - 3. I will be alternating between Adelitas, Hong Kong, Chicago, Tropical and Hotel Espana. Got to grab some chi chis muy grande! Salud!

[CountryMan54]

I am thinking of starting a Charles schwab account. I have always used USA Dollars in mexico. Do you save enough money using pesos? On SG? Hk chicas? Other bg? Everything else in Tijuana. Thank you for any advice.

[Captain Solo]

I read in news the last few migrant caravans have been avoiding the heavily fortified POEs in California, heading to smaller, more isolated, lightly-defended stretches of border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona. They probably heard the cold, hard, unwelcoming reception by Mexican in Tijuana and the kidnap, torture and murder of the 3 teenagers. These migrants have been whining that CBP houses them and their children in tents inside chain link fences and under bridges, exposing to the cold nights with only foil blankets and bad food, but they are the ones dragging their young children on dangerous 2,000-mile foot trip under extreme weather, risking robberies, kidnaps, abuses, sapes and murders by gangs, taking them over border fences, risking their fragile lives in the US' deadly desert in the first place.

Looks like the migrants are trying to manipulate nice, soft, charitable and generous American public into letting them and their children in along all their dire problems with personal failures, lack of education or skills, poverty, crimes, political corruption, many even blame their countries' problems on US' foreign policies. Damn. If Mexico or any other country let illegal immigrants into their soil, let those countries take care of them. They should not be allowed just to pass on the burdens to the US. They will soon find out severe social, criminal, economic and security problems caused by influx of migrants. The US should be very strict with her immigration laws and regulations, or the most undesirable populations of these corrupt and failed countries, by the millions, will try to sneak or force their ways into the US and abuse our society and resources. There is no dignity and integrity in people who force their wants and needs against the wills of others. They will likely use more illegal means to get what they want in the new countries. They just cannot be trusted.

A 20,000 strong caravan is allegedly forming up near Mexico's Southern border. They are likely a few weeks away. Don't know where they are heading to, but unlikely California as far as we know. They will more likely try to cross at other isolated points along the border. In unlikely events large migrant groups try to rush POEs in California and the border has to be closed, the closure would happen selectively, not more than a few hours each time. Cars would be stuck but can cross either by San Ysidro or Otay Mesa. Pedestrians should be able to cross perhaps with some delays, should be no problem late at night for mongers. Last time San Ysidro was closed at midday, a bro and I was driving down I 5 to Tijuana. We quickly exited the freeway and navigated on streets to Otay Mesa, which was completely empty on that date. We went to La Zona, had a good, sexy time with the chicas and crossed back via San Ysidro, which was wide open after midnight.

Last few weeks, pedestrians have been crossing back quickly but the Ready car lanes have been backed way up into downtown Tijuana, early PM and way past midnight, potentially 4 to 6 hours wait, even though most Ready lanes seemed open to process cars. Not sure what's going on with CBP. Just don't try to drive back without SENTRI or Global entry or you may be stuck for a few hours.

The border closure may cause minor uncertainty, inconveniences and losses for people in the US, but the impacts may be huge for Mexicans who have to cross the border to go to work, to school, get health care and do business. They should not have to bear the burdens and take the losses for these illegal migrants. The migrants, and the way Mexico has been harboring them, are grossly unfair for Mexicans. Mexico just has to man up, enforce her own laws and do what are best for her own citizens. Migrants should be quickly returned to their own countries for severe punishments for endangering children, breaking laws and crossing borders illegally.

[WombatEd2]

Actually close the border? I don't think so.

Well, maybe for an hour or two.

The folks who back Daffy Donald are heavily invested in international trade. He wouldn't dare bite the hand that wanks him!

[Travv]

Offhand, I would say only US Citizens would be allowed in if the border was closed. American citizens have a right to return to the USA; others don't. If the border is "closed" possibly the long line wait to return would be much shorter since non-us citizens would not be allowed to enter and they wouldn't bother driving or walking to the port of entry since they know they will be turned around and sent back despite having a visa. The problem is whether Mexico would retaliate by closing its border to Americans.

[StrikeFour]

So there is a risk of getting stuck in Tijuana if you travel next week? Are they stopping US Citizens and tourists with visa to get back to US?

[Travv]

The Mexican peso has tumbled to session lows as traders have slowly come to the conclusion that Trump might be serious about shuttering the border next week to try and send a message to the Mexican government. After tweeting the threat earlier today, Trump said Friday afternoon that he might keep the border closed for a long time.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...rder-next-week

Good news. Everything in Tijuana just got cheaper. Stock up on Pesos!

Let's hope not. Otherwise no fun for awhile....!!


(https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/polit...ain/index.html).

[Hargow20]

Let's hope not. Otherwise no fun for awhile....!!


(https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/29/polit...ain/index.html).

[StRobert]

Link https://www.thelocal.es/20190326/sor...olonial-abuses Sorry not sorry: Spain rejects Mexico's demand for apology for colonial abuses.

The 500-year-old wounds of the Spanish conquest were ripped open afresh on Monday when Mexico's president urged Spain and the Vatican to apologize for their "abuses" -- a request Madrid said it "firmly rejects. ".

Spain's centuries of dominance in the New World, backed by the Catholic Church, leapt from the history books to the headlines when Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on Spanish King Felipe VI and Pope Francis to apologize for the conquest and the rights violations committed in its aftermath.

"I have sent a letter to the king of Spain and another to the pope, calling for a full account of the abuses and urging them to apologize to the indigenous peoples (of Mexico) for the violations of what we now call their human rights," Lopez Obrador said.

He made the remarks in a video, filmed at the ruins of the indigenous city of Comalcalco and posted on Facebook and Twitter.

"There were massacres and oppression. The so-called conquest was waged with the sword and the cross. They built their churches on top of the (indigenous) temples," added the anti-establishment leftist.

"The time has come to reconcile. But let us ask forgiveness first. " Spain's rejection was immediate and blunt.

"The government of Spain deeply regrets that the letter the Mexican president sent to his majesty the king, whose contents we firmly reject, has been made public," it said in a statement.

"The arrival, 500 years ago, of Spaniards to present Mexican territory cannot be judged in the light of contemporary considerations," it said.

"Our two brother nations have always known how to read our shared past without anger and with a constructive perspective. ".

300-year reign.

Lopez Obrador made the remarks during a visit to the Mayan pyramids of Comalcalco, in his native Tabasco state, in southern Mexico.

He later visited the nearby city of Centla, the scene of the first battle between Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes and the indigenous peoples of the land now known as Mexico, on March 14,1519.

With the help of horses, swords, guns and smallpox -- all unknown in the New World at the time -- Cortes led an army of fewer than 1,000 men to defeat the Aztec empire, the start of 300 years of Spanish rule over Mexico.

The abuses continued until independence from Spain in 1821, and beyond, Lopez Obrador said.

"Thousands of people were murdered during this period. One culture and civilization imposed itself on another," he said later in a speech.

"There are still open wounds. It's better to recognize that abuses were committed, and mistakes were made. It's better to ask forgiveness and seek to be brothers in a historic reconciliation. ".

He added that he, too, planned to offer an apology, "because the repression of indigenous peoples continued after the colonial period. ".

It's complicated.

Mexico has a complicated relationship with its colonial past.

Its history, culture, food and the Mexican people themselves are the product of "mestizaje," the mixing of the Old and New Worlds.

According to a government study, 98 percent of Mexicans have some combination of indigenous, European and African ancestry.

But although that mixture made modern Mexico -- and gave the world the gifts of chocolate, tacos de carnitas and Day of the Dead -- it is also a past tainted by violence, [CodeWord123] and oppression.

Lopez Obrador, 65, took office in December after a landslide election win that represented a firm break with Mexico's traditional political parties.

A folksy populist, he pulls no punches in going after traditional elites, and has sought to cast himself as a champion of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

Photo taken on January 30,2019 Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (R) welcomes Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. AFP.

But he had so far cultivated cordial relations with Spain and the Vatican, including during a visit to Mexico City by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez earlier this year.

Sanchez, a fellow leftist, marked the occasion by presenting the Mexican president with his grandfather Jose Obrador's Spanish birth certificate, from 1893.

By AFP's Joshua Howat Berger, with Marianne Barriaux in Madrid.

[KC Questor]

Come on man! 81% of Mexicans are Catholic.

That's the problem! In Costa Rica they were all home with their families. Most businesses including restaurants were closed on Good Friday and Easter Day. I ate at a KFC in San Jose! Ugh. I'm guessing Tijuana won't be as bad, but I am a bit nervous. Oh well, the ones who are there will be willing to work!