En Route to Tepic to Bail My Car Out of Jail
Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 3:09PM You can accuse me of being many things but you can't say I am boring.
I mentioned yesterday that I recently rented a house in Cabo and have been spending time there. I wanted to bring up some items from Acapulco and thought the easiest way to bring them would be to take my car up with all things I wanted. But, it's about a 20 hour drive followed by an 18 hour ferry ride (from Mazatlan to La Paz) and I have been so busy I didn't want to lose two days so my fiance found a relative of hers who was willing to drive it up for us.
Well, late last night we got a call. He's in jail. Charged with kidnapping. In Tepic in Nayarit state.
Ever heard of Tepic? Me neither.
As I write to you, however, I am in the back seat of my rental car, reporting in via 3G and my laptop after flying in to Guadalajara on my way on the 2 hour drive to Tepic. My trusty gardener/maintenance-man and now driver is at the wheel and we are hoping to get my car out of impound and have him drive it the rest of the way while I fly back. Hopefully he's not wanted too.
I've been trying to make the best of having to fly/drive over to Tepic so I have purchased some Modelo cervezas and have been snapping some photos of the beautiful scenery along the way.
;)
A Toll-Booth Stop In Between Guadalajara and Tepic
The road is glorious... an all new blacktop, private toll-road winding through the green hills and mountain valleys. It is a bit on the expensive side (about $20) but I always happily pay any private roadway purveyors. Yet another business the government should get the hell out of.
As for my fiance's relative? Apparently, according to him, many years ago he helped a friend put a relative into an alcoholic treatment center. The person didn't want to go and, apparently, afterwards, the person complained to the police that he had been "kidnapped". He never dealt with the charge and assumed after years that it had just gone away.
Apparently not. He still sits in a Tepic holding cell and they are planning to deport him back to Acapulco in the next day or two.
He says it will all be sorted out quickly in Acapulco.
We'll see. I'm just hoping the Mexican cops didn't do their usual and plant some drugs in the car. I've already hired a lawyer to help out my fiance's relative and he assures me that the car should be released without problem.
If you don't hear from me tomorrow, it probably means I am in jail as a narco-traficante in Tepic, Nayarit. On the bright side, if they throw me in jail at least I won't have to listen to Obama's how-to-destroy-more-jobs plan later tonight.
On that note, just before I left for the airport in Cabo today I had a conversation on the radio in the New York area with Kerry Lutz of the Financial Survival Network. We spoke about Obama's upcoming speech, the Swiss franc/Euro double-suicide pact and many other topics you might find of interest. If you'd like to listen, check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMzeqgWbXdk
We are almost in Tepic now. Knowing Mexico, I should have some more interesting stories for you tomorrow. Adios!
Reader Comments (5)
I have been laying an eye on your blog and I know how free-market adept you are but.. I have a question for you. When you say in this latest post of your,
"The road is glorious... an all new blacktop, private toll-road winding through the green hills and mountain valleys. It is a bit on the expensive side (about $15) but I always happily pay any private roadway purveyors. Yet another business the government should get the hell out of.",
how much impact do you think such private controlled road has on the minimum wage paid Mexican citizen and, what is your opinion about the exploitation of the common Mexican citizen by private corporations that have a clear monopoly over 1st necessity commodities.
- John
My questions were more like, questions of opinion, not presumptions. I'm not American.. actually i'm Portuguese :) Have you heard about what is currently happening here in Portugal? We have what is currently and vulgarly called, the "troika" which is constituted by the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, imposing their conditions in order for us to receive monetary help. Between many of those conditions, there is one that stated the Goverment should abandon the "Golden Share" policy that allowed it, to have some control over 1st commodities companies, such has EDP (Electricity) and Águas de Portugal (Water). In my opinion this is very dangerous, since these companies control 100% of the market. EDP supplies energy and water to the population (water is not really true, because AdP does not exist in all of Portugal, but in the places were it is, it's the only one...). Allowing these companies to be controlled by foreign powers, such as France or Germany, may open the possibility that in the future, if potable water demands increase in those countries, we might have a big problem here in Portugal... And the same can happen with the communications company Portugal Telecom, which controls all cable communications and even the "concurrent" cellphone companies use PT communication infrastructure to supply service to their costumers... Energie, Water and Communications, examples of 1st commodities monopolist companies that started as state departments, were transformed into companies and are now falling under the control of foreign companies, as demanded by the Troika... No more control over our own resources or even communications (freedom of speech in danger? Privacy?... no more, if there was any before...)
This is going long... lol
To end, i just wanted to repeat, it was my intention to obtain only an opinion from you. It's a bit chaos here in Portugal... i only wished that we had never joined the Euro in the first place.