Baja California Mexico

Do you think the ground feels a little shakier these days? It's not your imagination. Last year saw a significant increase in the number of temblors of magnitude 3.0 or greater in Southern California and the northern portion of Baja California, according to data from Caltech and the U.S. Geological Survey. The region recorded 267 shakers with magnitudes of 3.0 and above last year, compared with 125 in 2007. Seismologists said 2008 had the highest number of such quakes of any year since 1999.

Stephen and Linda Drake cast aside concerns about owning property in Mexico because they believed in Donald Trump. The Southern California couple made a $250,000 down payment on a 19th-floor oceanfront condo in Trump Ocean Resort Baja in 2006 before the first construction crew arrived.

The National Geographic Society has published two new travel maps of the Baja California region of Mexico, one for Baja North and one for Baja South. They are part of National Geographic's AdventureMaps series, which also cover Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Panama. A new map for Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula will be released early this year. The Baja maps, which are printed on waterproof and tear-resistant material, provide details on terrain, local routes, ferry routes and even locations for gas stations.

As the death toll mounted after two separate riots at a prison here, Baja California state authorities came under fierce criticism Thursday for allegedly brutal tactics used by police on inmates and the treatment of inmates' relatives who had gathered outside the prison.

He is said to love the ladies, fast horses and dissolving enemies in lye. Teodoro Garcia Simental is among the best known but least identifiable villains in Mexico's drug war, blamed for a trail of terror across Baja California. His heavily armed hit men, authorities say, have been leaving the gruesome displays of charred and decapitated bodies across the city, signed with the moniker "Tres Letras," for the three letters in "Teo."

A Baja California electoral tribunal dealt a severe blow to the gubernatorial bid of Tijuana gambling tycoon Jorge Hank Rhon on Wednesday, annulling his candidacy seven weeks before the Mexican state's August election. Hank, the former mayor of Tijuana, was declared ineligible because a state law prohibits elected officials from running for office before completing their terms.

Mexico's federal electoral tribunal cleared the way for Tijuana's former mayor, Jorge Hank Rhon, to resume his bid for governor of Baja California, overruling a state tribunal that had annulled his candidacy two weeks ago. The state tribunal had declared Hank Rhon ineligible because of a state law prohibiting elected officials from running for office before completing their terms.

The gambling tycoon had just breezed through another campaign stump speech when the poor farmers and mothers of a sweltering desert pueblo surged toward him trying to press pieces of crumpled paper into his hand. They are letters begging for help from Jorge Hank Rhon, the Tijuana multimillionaire running for governor of Baja California state. One woman requests a wheelchair for her disabled father. Another needs treatment for a tumor. "Give me justice, Mr.

Conservative candidate Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan held a sizable lead over gambling tycoon Jorge Hank Rhon, based on early returns Sunday in Baja California's fractious gubernatorial election. Osuna, with 51% of the vote, was well ahead of Hank, who had 43%, with 17% of the polling places counted, according to the Baja California Electoral Institute. Osuna declared victory at a news conference, but representatives of Hank's campaign said the race was still too early to call.

Conservative candidate Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan beat back a strong challenge from gambling tycoon Jorge Hank Rhon to win the gubernatorial election in Baja California, according to preliminary election results Monday. Osuna, with 50.5% of the vote, had an insurmountable lead over Hank, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, who garnered 43.7% of the vote, according to a count of nearly all the polling places by the Baja California Electoral Institute.