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Like recent mornings, this one was a bit nipper. The bay was glass calm with hardly a wave. Pelicans, frigates and other marine birds fished around the bay along with fishermen in their pangas with their atarrayas (cast nets). I think I spotted a kayak gliding slowly across the other side of the bay. No whales today.

Of course, the news of the day wasn't happy. Chaos everywhere, just like Mexico's northern neighbor intends to cause by concentrating their phony "war on drugs" on us. Except the death of the leader of the CJNG "El Mencho" was also personal for Mexico's Secretario de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana Omar García Harfuch whom "El Mencho" tried to have assassinated when Omar was in charge of the security for Mexico City when our current president was its mayor. So for him, today was a professional win. But nothing of substance will change. The multi-million-dollar-a-year black market business supplying over 50 million U.S. citizens with the stupidly banned recreational substances they prefer will still exist. No enlightenment will befall U.S. lawmakers, no epiphany will cause them to seek a better solution for substance abuse and addiction. Prisons for profit and million-dollar budgets for hundreds of different police agencies charged with the interdiction of stupidly banned substances will continue to thrive. So will the sale of arms in the USA to straw buyers who will effortlessly smuggle them into Mexico. Travel will return to normal, and anxious visitors will be able to scamper home to "safety". Cubans will continue to suffer from the current U.S. regime's criminal embargo, and Ukraine will continue to suffer from the current U.S. government's dastardly betrayal. Mexico will continue to progress and move forward, solving its problems and improving life for its proud people.

Local lodging operators emitted a joint statement that they would work in solidarity with visitors unable to travel who need lodging for an extra day or two. Bus service has been cancelled in the state of Michoacán, and I don't believe they're running up and down our coast for the moment either.

The municipal government cancelled events for Domingo Cultural. While I've seen a couple of taxis and a very few cars, downtown is mostly a ghost town at the moment with everything buttoned up. Very few people are out on the street or along the waterfront. Several vehicles were burned in Zihuatanejo. A package delivery truck was burned near La Salitrera on its way here, so if your package doesn't arrive, you may have to re-order. Oxxos closed. Some schools will probably close tomorrow out of an abundance of caution, but no formal school closure order has been emitted by state authorities. The Guardia Nacional, Policía Estatal, Marina, and Ejército are patrolling everywhere they can. They stopped a passenger bus from getting torched on Zihuatanejo's main highway. But a couple of combis were burned, including one in front of Chedraui supermarket, so folks won't be able to get around until public transportation services resume. Please don't scold or fire your maid, your cook or your gardener if they don't show up this Monday for work. Hopefully things will return to normal by Tuesday.

The Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa airport is operating normally, and as far as I know, no flights have been cancelled.

Now's a good time to be out on the water. Whether you want to go sportfishing, whale watching, sightseeing or snorkeling, my friend Capitán Ramón Olea of the panga Oleaje offers an affordable adventure waiting to be enjoyed. Ramón knows all the local fishing and snorkeling spots as well as what else is worth seeing. His 24' covered panga doesn't offer much luxury, but his expertise in fishing and his local knowledge of our coast and its marine life is second to none! Ramón practices "catch and release" fishing when possible.
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Exhibición de obras de la pintora zihuatanejensa Guadalupe Gaytán en el Museo Regional de la Costa Grande frente a Playa Principal en Zihuatanejo. Ahí estarán hasta el día 28 de febrero.