Sometimes, the best way to examine everyday frustrations is through satire. In this edition of El Jalapeño, a fictional Baja resident takes his three-week power outage directly to CFE — along with a blender, tequila and an open bar for fellow customers waiting in line. Next, immigration enforcement takes an absurd turn as monarch butterflies are ordered to report for biometric processing on their journey south. Finally, a fictional Uber service offers an unconventional answer to canceled Tulum flights: a 22-hour journey in a Nissan Versa, complete with room-temperature water and periodic air conditioning. These are not real news stories, but their exaggerated scenarios offer a playful look at bureaucracy, border enforcement and the increasingly creative compromises of modern travel.
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Three weeks after his power was cut off, a Baja man decided to lodge a creative protest at his local CFE office.
ICE has announced the capture and detainment of numerous migrant monarch butterflies illegally transiting through the U.S.
La Paz has a history of frequent and often lengthy power cutoffs. The Man With the Blender’s in-person protest was novel but yielded no immediate results. “They’re good at cutting…
The monarch butterfly’s annual migration from southern Canada to central Mexico is in full swing, with the first sighting confirmed in the border state of Coahuila last week.
