Archive for March, 2008

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Monday, March 31st, 2008


Sonora real estate; LEGALIZED THEFT!! Beware!
Local thugs obtain land the old fashioned way: they use VIOLENCE! It’s a cheaper and acceptable form of land acquisition, just seize foreigner’s land! Foreigners have no rights in Sonora!

July 22, 2008
On July 16, 20008 an administrative complaint was filed against the state prosecutor in Hermosillo for derelection of duty.
Cronica denuncia del MP julio 22, 2008 (click here)

This is the same state prosecutor that evicted 400 squatters in February of this year without an investigation!!!!

Eviction Feb 12, 2008 with NO INVESTIGATION ( click here)

Eviction # 2 February 12, 2008 (Four days after the prosecutor was assigned to San Luis)

July 16, 2008

Appeal update. The court system in Sonora is in a two week recess. My case is scheduled to be ruled on when they get back. They will decide if we are entitled to get our land back or if the criminals still get to keep it!

July 11, 2008

We had face to face cross examination where I got to prove beyond any reasonable doubt, that these criminals were not only the intellectuals behind the violent act of throwing us off our land, but they actually admitted to the type of weapons they used to keep me from stopping them. I will post a picture by thursday of them and their weapons. Additionally, they DENIED NOTHING, they just insisted that they were there to be witnesses so that I wouldn’t exagerate my claims! I will post transcript of the hearing as well.

July 4, 2008
Today was the first day of the new judge that was sent to replace the disgraced prior judge that gave away possession to our lands. I have not met him yet buyt hope to do so soon.

June 23, 2008
This is a copy of the letter I personally delivered to Gov Bours’ office in Hermosillo. Even though the Mexican Constitution REQUIRES elected public officials to reply in kind to all petitions, this letter has for the most part been ignored. Click on the thumbnail below to read my letter.

Letter to Gov Bours June 23, 2008 (still unanswered)

June 6, 2008 7:30pm

Mexican Supreme Court Reject thugs appeal to dismiss criminal charges! (click here)

A local judge gives away our land ! Why, because he could!!!

June 5, 2008 7:00 pm

Judge gives away our land even though he knew criminal matter was ongoing and squatters had been evicted from the land! If you think this could not happen to you keep reading! What good is it to be “Legal Owner” when the people that were given possession are in POSSESSION and NEVER have to leave!!! So what if they can’t sell it, we can’t do anything with the land; not sell, not build, not anything….!

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This is the criminal case where the same judge recused himself but later gave the defendants possession of our land! (same people, same plot of land , same judge!)

Different day; same nonsense!!

For those of you that were still believing that it was safe to invest in Sonoran Real Estate, I would carefully analyze my case because, this could be happening you!!!! Sad thing is there is not a damn thing you can do about it once it starts but go through every hoop they throw at you and be prepared for the next hoop because they hit you from ALL SIDES!

The documents are in Spanish but it makes for great reading entertainment because ALL declarations are FALSE and documents are fraudulent / doctored /fake! Bad thing about it is that this judge KNEW that these cases should have had the registered LEGAL owners notified to contest the court actions!!! I guess in Sonora you don’t have to notify the other party.

Why the hell did we have to invest in Sonora? Well the sky only appears to be blue in Sonora; it’s actually not blue, its a mirage just like the laws of this state!!! Spilled milk now. Now I have to get out of this predicament!

When will Governor Bours say “Enough is enough!!! Let’s enforce our current state laws and let the chips fall where they may!!!”

Click on the Blue fictitious words below (they are not really there, they just appear to be there!) Print them out give them to your friends have a stack in your bathroom in case you run out of the real thing you can you these documents because that is all they are good for. These are the new owners

Basilisa Possession Resolution

Ana Sanchez Olivarez Possession Resolution

Laura Elena Padilla Possession Resolution

STILL THINK IT’S SAFE TO INVEST IN SONORA??

In regards to the new criminal complaint that was to have indictments issued and restitution and evictions by the previous D.A., well the current D.A. wants more witnesses!!!! What a crock of crap! He is DRAGGGGGGING his feet!!
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June 5, 2008 and Arrest warrants still not executed. Thugs freely walk the streets, nobody bothers them even though all 3000 residents of this tiny port village know these thugs have arrest warrants for them!

I would like to publicly thank all of you who have offered suggestions on how to defend myself in the Mexican system of law. However, My President George W. Bush said I was not allowed to print dollar bills with my computer at home and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said California has fallen officially into drought and I am not allowed to water the dollar trees I had planted in my backyard! So, unless there is a rich, kind person that wants to contribute to this lone crusader’s fight against the unjust Mexican system I am battling, I have to do it the hard way. It only takes money! Money and patience two of the major components I am running really low on!
For those of you that write to me in Spanish and try to insult me with words like Yankee Imperialist, I must tell you I am a Dodger and a Laker fan not a Yankee fan. Besides, half the time I dont understand your insults. You have to use Spanish a third grader will understand and I am tired of using a dictionary to figure out what you are trying to say. I would write this in Spanish but you will have to wait until I finish the Spanish version of this blog; it’s is under construction.

Tonight I will post the trial pages of the three new owners to our land. I will also post the prior connection of the judge to our case where he recused himself because his friend was an adviser to the defendants! He can’t claim he didn’t know about the litigation or that these people were legally evicted and that one lady sought an an AMPARO with the same Fraudulent papers and lost!!! Fed Ex gets here around 2 – 3 pm they should up by 5 or 6!!!

News flash. We lost a court case we didn’t even know was going on! A local civil judge in the City of San Luis Rio Colorado has awarded TITLE to our land to the squatters because they sued for possession and judge doesn’t know what laws are about or he simply does not know the law. How did I find out that there were “NEW” owners to our land? They presented their new title to the municipal water company that promptly gave them water service!!!!!!!
We didn’t know about this prescriptive lawsuit!

Nothing new to report on the appeal. It is STILL is in transit to the Appellate Tribunal of Caborca. Nothing to do but sit back and hopefully justice will prevail!

Hearings are to be held with bench warrants being issued for the squatters / witnesses / victims because they have NOT bothered to show up to court at all.

Motion for Restitution and Evictions for DA in NEW Criminal complaint that the State D.A. won’t act on!

A new owner has emerged from the abyss with an old title dating back to 1947! Wow!!!! Only in Mexico!!

On April 9, 2008 I was allowed a meeting with the President of the Tribunals for the State of Sonora (aka Chief Justice). He listened to my rants and committed to giving me a fair process. Can’t ask for more than that, if fact that’s all I ever asked for , “A fair shake!” My biggest complaint was that my side was NOT allowed to be present when the judge did the “Judicial Inspection”!
I also spoke with the Director of State Investigators and told him my story again. He committed to speaking persononally with the attorney general about restitution through the investigator and the execution of the arrest warrants. I have not been able to get through to him via telephone; he is always in a meeting or out of town.

The waiting game is in full press! We hurry up and wait@!!! Then we wait some more!!!

April 1, 2008 @ 10:30 am, an evidentiary hearing was held to determine if we have a right to get our land back with full legal and physical restitution or if the thugs have a right to continue to break the law and stay on our legally purchased and paid for property! No documentation was provided by the hoodlums / criminals. We await the ruling!

April 2, 2008; No ruling yet. However, the criminals on trial for throwing us off our land presented a motion to the judge stating that they have no connection with the squatters on our land and they had nothing to do with throwing us off our land and they are guilty of nothing except for harassment from my first lawyer that framed them!!
Ruling date has been set for Friday April 4, 2008 to determine if we get our land back or not. Stay tuned……..

Today April 4, 2008 Judge issues ruling: WE ARE NOT ENTITLED TO OUR LAND BACK!!!!

READ all about it: Judges summary
Judges reasoning for not giving us back our land. He states that when HE (the Judge) made a physical inspection, he did not find any of the defendants on the property. Of course he wouldn’t find any of the defendants on our property because that is part their liberty bond to stay away from our property but they send in some poor ignorant people to squat the land for them!!!!! They were evicted once before and defied the order and went back on the land. The judge knew this fact because it is in the FILE!!! These people went as far as to get a ferderal AMPARO against the state so they wouldn’t get kicked off again and they LOST that motion as well, fraudulent papers and all. What a racket!
As soon as I can track down that fraudulent amparo I will post so the judge can read it AGAIN because it is in the FILE!!
This is the same judge that denied my motion for an order of police protection!

An appeal has been filed against this INSANE ruling! Last time we were there, the lower court ruling was overturned and arrest warrants issued. Why do I continue the fight, many have asked? Because I have to! There are many people within the Sonora government that are as appalled at our situation and they give me the emotional support to continue on.

Women attack

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Women and children to the front lines! Notice the police car and the acts of destroying trenches and lines for block wall construction under the watchful eye of the police.
The commandante of the El Golfo Police Department was reassigned after this incident for trying to arrest these women but was stopped by the delegado. I ran into the commandante a few months later in San Luis running a check point looking for drunk drivers. Talk about getting demoted for trying to do the right thingand your job at the same time!!!

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Notice there are no men! Do you see any police officers stopping these vandals??
No they are hiding from the camera!!

Women and children destruction police report. District attorney only laughed and did NOTHING about this destruction.

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This was the last attack when they finally succeeded in getting us off the land by forceably throwing us off the land along with the 33′ trailer

This picture of the children was during the final attack on Feb 18, 2006 when they finally succeeded in getting us off the land by forceably throwing us off the land along with the 33′ trailer (Again who’s manning the front lines?)

Current Litigation

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Tuesday March 25 a judicial inspection occured on our property by the judge. Now we just have to wait for his ruling on the matter by next week. Hopefully we shall have our answer by thursday Aoril 2, 2008!

Motion for Restitution of property and evictions!

Criminal Complaint moves forward, federal motion to dismiss (Amparo indirecto) DENIED!!

Thugs (Motion) crying over amount of my material damages

My Federal Complaint (Amparo indirecto) against the State of Sonora to execute arrest warrants.

We lost our appeal to get the Federal court to order the State of Sonora to execute the artrest warrants. It seems that the state can do whatever they want with the arrest warrants! At the moment they are nice paper weights and dust attrackers.

Documentation

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Click on the blue words

Lot Site
Our backyard
Municipal Water Bill
Thrown off land.
“Hurricane” destroys trailer!
“Hurricane” destroys concrete block wall!
Police and Delegado testimony
Thugs present their side of story to agrarian court
criminal complaint filed against Police and Delegado
Delegado commits PERJURY
Delegado suspended administratively for 3 years
Complaint filed in Hermosillo against local district attorney

News report of eviction and restitution

La Prensa news of eviction

Noticias Exprecion de Sonora news of eviction

La Tribuna news of eviction

Hoodlums try to RESOLICIT the land for themselves

Agrairian court rules against thugs!

Judge rules NO CRIME Commited!

State appeals court overturns lower court issues arrest warrants!!

Arrest Warrants

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8qHgUNd27Y

State claims their social problem is well a social problem

I am no longer a “Gringo Illegally in Mexico!

Caution; full disclosure ahead!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

If you are able to read Spanish I have more up to date items there than here.

Last update September 22, 2008 9:00 pm
State prosecutor responds to our administrative complaint with LIES!!! (well maybe I should be politically correct and describe his LIES as Falsehoods) He is declining or dragggging his feet in regards to comply with the request from the Comission on Human Rights for a certtified copy of our criminal complaint against the squatters he is so graciously PROTECTING!
On Friday the 19th of September, two defendants still not arrested were denied a federal Amparo (appeal for dismissal of charges) and now must face the music that is slowlllllyyy winding down to sentencing! Since they elected to NOT present a defense, I don’t see how they can possibly explain their acts of violence caught on TAPE and PHOTOS and witnesss statements as anything but a VIOLENT ACT against peaceful, law abiding property owners trying to build on their legally purchased property! But then again, at the end of the day we are talking about Mexico and not the US justice system. Anything can happen in Mexico.

Denied Amparo defendants Clemente Morales & Daniel Arroyo Sept 19, 2008

We go to court on October 6th as we seek protection of the federal court system in ordering the State Prosecutor to issue indictments in our case and to stop protecting the criminals and guarantee us our rights to enjoy our legally purchased property! Should be interesting to see the outcome. If you remember we were denied an amparo to force the executive branch of the Sonoran government to enforce the arrest warrants (it even went to the supreme court for an appeal) they ruled they couldn’t force the state to enforce their own laws (in a nut shell anyway> Either way, nobody has been arrested because of the violent act on February 18, 2006!)
The agrarian court will re-hear our case on the 16th of October because a federal amparo ordered it. They had ruled in our favor on May 7, 2007 but the criminals took exception to that ruling and filed an appeal with the federal court. They prevailed there, but we have to see what happens on Oct 16, 2008. We shall see if the same laws in force on that day are the same laws applied again seeing how the criminals have produced absolutely NO documentation to prove they are the legal owners of our legally purchased property that was issued title by the state of Sonora! They did provide a motion to the criminal courts were they state they have no “personal” inteset in our property! Stay tuned!
Are you sure you want to buy land in Sonora?? They should make a movie about this case or maybe they already have seeing how so many others have been ensnarled with this kind of senario.
Not even the governor has responded to my petition for a written explanation of the legal status of our investment even though the Mexican constituition requires such response in kind. Copy of the formal petition is oposted somewhere on this site or definately on the spanish site (under petition heading)

August 26,2008 9:30 pm
There are SERIOUS internal irregular problems with the handling of our case by the State Prosecutor (ministerio Publico) that need to be investigated, corrected, resolved and more importantly EXPOSED to the public! more to come on this specific issue with the investigator tomorrow.

If you are interested in buying our land, I have put it up for sale on ebay. click on this link.

August 5,2008

The appeals circuit court in Caborca has upheld the lower courts decision to not give us our land back! We are NOT entitled to get our land back! Even though we have CLEAN LEGAL TITLE! Shocking, not really. Remember we are talking about Mexico, where the justice system is like a box of chocolate; you never know what you are going to get!

I really do hope you are paying close attention you investors thinking about buying the American dream south of the border! Take your money and run as fast as you can away from Sonoran Real Estate!
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July 29, 2008

Newspaper article where state prosecutor has no comment about the administrative complaint against him for failing to indict! (click here)

July 16, 2008

This is a copy of the administrative complaint I filed against the state prosecutor for failing to indict the criminals that stole our land even though it has been over 17 months since they stole the land back from us! A copy was also filed with the governor, attorney general, internal affairs for the prosecutors office and the human rights commission for the State of Sonora. (click here)

June 25, 2008

Unfortunately, the Schwarzenegger administration thinks that my situation is not happening the way I presented it because the State of Sonora told them that I have a squatter problem and only a squatter problem. Absolutely no mention of the Molotav Cocktails or the machetes or death threats or the actual physical removal of our trailer of our lands by these criminals.
I am on a mission to have the Schwarzenegger administration remove their rosy colored glasses and actually read my documentation and talk to the Arizona Dept of Real Estate or the Arizona-Mexico Commission or Gov Napolitano’s office or my Lawyer or ….. A wise man once said, Trust; but verify!!!!
I will be directing my attention to the Schwarzenegger administration next week as well and then to President Calderon who will be paying a visit to Hermosillo on the 24th of July 2008. I need to save my pennies becasue full page ads aren’t cheap!

Version en espanol sera disponible para junio 8, 2008. espanol muy dificil de escribir! Una semana mas! Spanish is too complicated to write so please be patient. www.noticiaselgolfo.com Ya empeso el show!

June 5, 2008 7:00pm

I am trying to fight a system I do not understand, my expectations too high and my patience too low. So I hope to work through this weekend on the new look and hopefully more people will understand what I am trying to accomplish with this blog.
People must know about what can possibly go wrong with their real estate investment. My glasses are no longer rosy colored.
I will however, continue to post documents and photos and hopefully, I can regain control of my blood pressure!

So you think it is safe to invest in Sonoran Real Estate as a foreigner?? Think Mexican law will protect you ??
Keep reading! We just had our land GIVEN away by a local judge!!! It can happen to you too!! Mexican laws don’t even protect Mexicans either!

To borrow a great phrase; “We report, you decide”!

I am not a lawyer, not in America nor in Mexico. I am a FOOL however for investing in the most beautiful place in Sonora, Mexico. Just another sucker, that got sucked into a nightmare of never-ending proportions!
I have become very versed in the perverse way “things” happen in Sonora. This dream has been an expensive endeavor and mind-boggling adventure with the highest levels of frustration and disgust one can imagine.
It is my intent with this blog to share my experiences with future naive American Investors that believe they too can buy the American Dream south of the border. It is not my intent to offer any legal advice, just to educate the masses or as many people I can possibly reach of the potential pitfalls that are associated with investing in Mexico, particularly in the State of Sonora. Our experiences include being threatened with death, machetes, Molotov Cocktails and being educated by high up officials from the Bours administration that our problem is “Social” in nature and NOT a “legal problem!”

Additional and a more distressing situation was when I tried to file criminal charges with the district attorney, I was told, “you are a GRINGO ILLEGALLY in Mexico, you can not sue any Mexican on Mexican soil without the proper visas!”

I would like to take the effort to publicly acknowledge and thank those few government employees of the State of Sonora that have been more than helpful in my search for righting wrongs and correcting injustices! These people have gone well above and beyond my expectations in terms of helping this frustrated “gringo” get his due justice in a not so “just” Sonora. Like I had previously stated, this Blog is not an indictment for the entire Sonoran system, just the rotten part of it that has thrown so many obstacles and barriers to punishing those terrorists that attacked us and threw us off our land and now won’t let us get it back!
For those of you have inquired, we are not the only investors that are in this proverbial sinking ship, there are several fellow Americans fighting the same fight we are. We are by far, the furthest along in our battle. One American investor even had his police protection detail along with his workers thrown off their land by a mob lead by a POLITICIAN!!!! How is that for corruption? How many people went to jail for that? NONE! But the American investor got SUED for taking down the squatters make-shift fencing!!!!

Feel free to leave a comment. Maybe I just expect too much?

The fight continues
Pedro
EMAIL:
thefool@elgolfo.org

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This picture was taken the day the we were physically thrown off our land and the police were ordered to leave the scene and not protect our property. The officer pointing at the camera was physically pushed and kicked off our property by the woman in black and the man (I believe her husband) on the left. She is the daughter in law to the man in the blue-green t-shirt that attacked our people with Molotov cocktails and the main in the red hat is one of the leaders that threatened us with arson and machetes if we did not abandon our property. Both men are wanted under the arrest warrants that have not and will not be executed.