Our legal battle with someone trying to take a piece of our ranch began in June 2018, and it's been working its way through the innards of the Mexican judicial system since, slowly and methodically, but not definitively. It's a fight not only over ownership of a piece of land but, more crucially, to preserve …
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Here comes da (Mexican) judge
The six-month legal battle to keep someone from stealing a strip of land in front our ranch has been instructive. It's taught us patience, that legal wrangles take time to resolve anywhere, and that pulling out your hair in desperation while waiting for a resolution is only going to get you bald spots. Also, it's …
Gears of Mexican justice grind on. Very slowly.
As we head for the Christmas holidays, when the Mexican government practically goes into hibernation until the Feast of the Three Kings on January 6, we paid a visit to our lawyer to discuss the status of the litigation over the piece of land someone is trying to steal from us.It was mostly good news, …
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And now, a short suspense story: How we liberated our pickup from the San Miguel auto pound
On Dec. 10, our trusty 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup was in a head-on collision with another pickup. On a scale of one to ten, this mishap scored a four or about the equivalent of a broken nose. It's all fixable and fortunately there were no serious injuries thanks to the sturdy burro bumper on the …
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