Burros Don Chon

[Marie Ota]

Amenos de un mes de las elecciones, un nuevo candidato busca ganar la Alcalda de Ciudad Jurez: "El Burro Chon".

A travs de la red social Facebook, el candidato se ha ganado cientos de seguidores con su lema: "Es mejor un burro como presidente municipal, que un presidente burro".

"Esto no es ficcin, es una historia real de lucha contra el autoritarismo y la falta de una democracia real y autntica en nuestra frontera, donde los ciudadanos nunca hemos contado", indic el equipo que cre la pgina.

Incluso, el singular poltico se burla del nmero de seguidores de sus contrincantes, la panista Mara Antonieta Prez Reyes y el priista Enrique Serrano Escobar, quienes a la fecha tienen mil 544 y 13 mil 348 seguidores, respectivamente.

Tambin ironizan sobre un lema de la administracin municipal del priista Hctor Murgua sobre los trabajos realizados dentro del Programa de Movilidad Urbana, consistente en pavimentar y repavimentar las calles.

Mientras el lema oficial indica: "Las molestias pasan, las obras se quedan", el lema de Chon es "Las elecciones pasan, el hambre permanece".

Entre sus propuestas se encuentra la siguiente: "En las municipales.

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salario mnimo al presidente.

Paque vea lo que se siente".

Los creadores de la pgina en la red social recordaron que en 1982 esta ciudad fronteriza se encontraba tan devastada como ahora por una aguda crisis econmica y que la gente vea cmo su voto era utilizado por los ricos y poderosos del pas slo para legitimarse.

"En este contexto, en una Asamblea Popular decidieron lanzar como candidato a un burro al que llamaron "Chon".

Muchos creyeron que era slo una burla, pero realmente contena un sentido poltico, como una alternativa de organizacin ante un rgimen autoritario", explicaron.

Lo llamaron "Chon" para identificarlo con un principio de vida, (Carbono, Hidrgeno, Oxgeno y Nitrgeno).

"Viendo la historia de los burros en Mxico, sabemos que en plena Colonia se dio una enorme mortandad de indgenas en las minas y a travs de las encomiendas", agregaron en su informacin en Facebook.

Ello se debi a que cargaban los minerales al exterior de las minas en sus espaldas o a los trabajos forzados.

"Esto lo vio y denunci Bartolom de las Casas, quien solicit traer esclavos negros y se dice que tambin una cantidad considerable de burros procedentes de frica para que as no hubiera mortandad de indgenas y no fuera tanta la explotacin sobre stos", sealaron.

"La peor parte de esta historia la llevaron los burros.

An con esta historia expuesta a los electores durante la campaa, muchas personas lo siguieron viendo como una burla y no como un instrumento poltico (para denunciar y organizar)".

Recordaron que durante la primera campaa para votar por "Chon", quien compiti contra el expresidente priista Miguel de la Madrid y contra el exgobernador panista Francisco Barrio, las autoridades hicieron una contracampaa de desprestigio al burro.

"Empezaron a decir que haba una epidemia equina y que tal vez podra contagiarse a otros animales e incluso a las personas", publicaron.

"Este fue el argumento con el que detuvieron a "Chon" para llevarlo a la crcel de animales del municipio.

Al poco tiempo sali y se convirti en un fenmeno juntando ms gente en los mtines que los dems candidatos, era muy bien recibido, sobre todo por los nios y nias que lo queran mucho".

De acuerdo con el equipo de campaa, gran parte de los votos que obtuvo durante las elecciones en las que particip eran porque los nios llevaban a sus padres a votar por el Burro Chon.

En la pgina de Facebook, los creadores piden que le den "Me gusta" para que el animal sea una alternativa en estas elecciones.

El 7 de julio, en Ciudad Jurez se elegir Alcalde y regidores, sndico y diputados.

Paradors are state funded hotels all over Spain, often located in old castles and medieval convents. Parador de Chinchon is set in the Convento de San Augustin and it is very lovely. Those religious types certainly knew how to look after themselves.

Parador Chinchon is great. The rooms are lovely, the food is excellent and the staff friendly. We were quite happy to be outside Madrid in the quiet countryside, waking up to the sound of birds chirping.

Since the new Asiana Market opened in late 2017, its food court has slowly grown, piece by piece. Until recently, the only truly compelling stall was Tous les Jours, the excellent French-Korean bakery.

Better are the various iterations on omurice, the Japanese-style omelet served over fried rice and smothered in sauce. The curry omurice ($11.99) is particularly nice, with steaming rice and a silky, tomato-based sauce with a smooth curry finish, while the kimchi and spam omurice ($10.99) is similarly strong.

Even better are the kimchi pasta ($10.99), similarly dairy-abundant but laced with the sour spice of fermented cabbage; and the mentaiko pasta ($11.99), an excellent take on the famous Japanese-Italian crossover dish, dressed with butter and spicy preserved pollock roe and served with a whole griddled prawn.

Tacos ($2.25) are the first order of business, and all four on offer are quite good, a mix of stewed and mesquite-grilled meats atop yellow corn tortillas with a dusting of delicately minced cilantro, onion and cabbage.

Smoky carne asada is finely chopped for an easy chew, while the pastor gets the requisite ruddy marinade and enough pineapple to add a touch of sweetness without being cloying. Cabeza and birria de chivo are tender and wet, lightly seasoned, and a splash of green tomatillo salsa or red salsa with a hefty dose of charred chile bitterness punch things up nicely.

The same meats extend to burros, mulas and unusually crisp vampiros. But the best thing on a crisp tortilla is probably the tostada de ceviche ($6), a mound of lightly cured, chopped shrimp, perfectly balanced with the usual accoutrement, a healthy dash of mayonnaise and a scalloped avocado cap for an extra buck.

But the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 was a different story. The Level 5 nor'easter was fierce and unrelenting in its three-day barrage. Poultry farms flooded, houses disappeared underwater, and coffins floated. For thousands of American children paying attention to the news, one question about the crisis rose above the rest: Was Misty all right?

Henry, a Newbery-award winning author, wrote 59 books, many of them about horses. She wrote about the burros who carry loads in the Grand Canyon, 1924 Kentucky Derby winner Black Gold, and the Godolphin Arabian. But Misty had a special kind of alchemy for readers, perhaps because Paul and Maureen lived the dream of every horse-crazy kid: surrounded by ponies and pining for one of their own, they wind up with her. "Misty here, she belongs to us," their grandfather tells them. The book centers on the themes of freedom and belonging: the animal lover's twofold fantasy.

Henry traveled to Chincoteague in 1945, looking to write a book about the ponies. There she visited Beebe Ranch, which was home to the real-life foal Misty.* The pony captivated her, and in 1946, she arranged to have Misty shipped to her home in Wayne, Illinois. When the book became a bestseller, Misty became an overnight celebrity, named an honorary member of the American Library Association, and invited to attend its annual convention at the Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

At her home in Illinois, Henry hosted many visitors who pilgrimaged to see Misty. "If a troop of Scouts or Bluebirds arrived on a pouring-down, drenching day," wrote Henry in her non-fiction account A Pictorial Life Story of Misty, "we brought Misty into the house where she shook hands all around and posed obligingly for all the Brownie cameras that came out of pockets and bags."

When the Ash Wednesday storm struck on the first day of Lent in 1962, Misty was pregnant and back at the Beebe ranch. With the water unsafe to drink and the island in turmoil, human residents were evacuated to nearby Wallops Island.

Misty weathered the storm in the family's kitchen. A cat kept her company, and she made herself at home there, lapping up some spilled molasses. "And there," Ralph Beebe, who had inherited the ranch from his parents, Clarence and Ida, assured the public, "is where she's going to stay."

Still, fans worried about the beloved pony. Their fears were magnified when they learned Misty was pregnant. Officials on the Eastern Shore told the Associated Press that their phones had been ringing off the hook with calls about Misty. Often, a child's voice was on the end of the line, asking if Misty was all right. "Misty of Chincoteague Reported Safe," ran one in the Washington Post. "Relax, Kids, Misty's OK," said a Pennsylvania paper.

Meanwhile, Misty was ready to foal. Ralph Beebe took her to the veterinarian on mainland Virginia. There she gave birth to a delicate and sprightly filly with wide, bright eyes and a chestnut and white coat.

The publicity tour worked. By April, Chincoteague pony owners were offering to sell their ponies back to the herd to help rebuild its numbers in the wake of the tragedy, Ralph Beebe told reporters. And in July, the pony penning would go on as always.

The next year, Henry's released a new novel. "My sequel had been born of violence," wrote Henry, "the violence of wind and tide; and of courage, the courage of the Beebe family who risked their own safety and took Misty into their kitchen." The title for the book was ready-made. It was called Stormy, Misty's Foal. "

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