Mexico — Noe Trinidad Chavez sat at a small card table gutting zucchinis with a metal corer knife preparing them to be stuffed with meat and cooked into platillo a la jardinera a traditional meal eaten by Sephardic Jews a native of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca He had never met a Jewish person in his life until he was 10 when he ventured off to Mexico City for work There he got a job helping Jewish families with day-to-day needs Now he’s the owner of two Jewish food shops including this one that’s no more than 6 feet by 14 feet with a lime-green awning adorned with a Star of David The store’s unlikely name: “El Tope,” or speed bump a tribute to his humble beginnings and where he set up a food cart as a street vendor His shop is stocked with produce and packaged products common to Mediterranean diets — eggplant grape leaves and tamarind syrup he prepares himself “It’s hard to find such unique things like these,” Chavez said “It’s a very small but very important store in the life of the Arab and Jewish community.” Although Mexico may be known for being the second-largest Roman Catholic country in the world it’s also home to a small but thriving Jewish population of about 40,000 El Tope is among dozens of shops in the town of San Miguel Tecamachalco Chavez can thoroughly explain what keeping kosher entails — what his customers can and can’t eat and when He can’t read the Hebrew on the labels of the products that fill his store but he knows which ones signify they are certified kosher In recent weeks he has been preparing for Passover clearing his shelves of forbidden products and performing the ritual of koshering his utensils by immersing them in boiling water He refers to the holiday by its Hebrew name Some store owners might have been put off by having to learn the complicated kosher rituals of an unfamiliar culture as part of their business San Miguel Tecamachalco was more than just a “little village” and consisted of acres of farmland it’s hugged on all sides by seemingly endless rows of houses protected by tall which line the streets in Lomas de Tecamachalco and other surrounding suburbs who grew up here and runs a small restaurant watched as the cattle and cornfields disappeared and the small commercial district took their place Jewish people made their mark on the community the town feels it because the majority of their businesses are closed and the people that work in these businesses they don’t work,” Avelino said as she sipped jamaica Orthodox Jewish families eat lunch in a quesadilla restaurant with a sign bearing a kosher symbol and “B”H” (for Baruch Hashem Nearby is a sign of the dual cultures here: a small Catholic shrine with a vase of yellow flowers and a statue of St The closest thing to a full-fledged grocery store in the town is Kurson Kosher meat counter and shelves stocked with pita bread and tortillas Falafel balls and assorted kosher tamales share space in the freezers that line the back of the store “We don’t abstain from or deprive ourselves of anything that’s Mexican,” said store manager Morris Rudy is used to people walking into his store and asking why his pizza is so expensive Mordo explains that kosher food costs more because it has to be prepared in a special way Some of his poorer customers can’t afford it Though waves of Jews arrived in Mexico in earlier centuries most of today’s Mexican Jews are descended from immigrants who traveled in the 19th and 20th centuries from Europe and the Middle East She has been giving walking tours of the Jewish parts of Mexico City for 20 years As they gained wealth in the 1950s through 1970s many Jews moved west from the city’s historic center to nearby suburbs such as Polanco and Lomas de Tecamachalco but if you ask someone at the street — anybody — ‘How many Jews do you think there are in Mexico?’ They would say about 1 million because we make a lot of noise,” Unikel said referring to prominent Jewish people across various professions Jews in Mexico have very low rates of assimilation and about 90 percent of children attend Jewish schools the Jewish population is going smaller and smaller but in Mexico it’s always keeping the same because it’s a very close and traditionalistic community,” Unikel said among shelves of canned chickpeas and jars of tahini an amulet with a blue-and-white “evil eye” and two small round bottles filled with green and red “evil eyes.” There’s another wooden hamsa with a metal plate inscribed with a blessing Even though she has to deal with parking as uncompromising as downtown L.A. his customers will ask: Given all his interest in Judaism interchanging the word “Dios” with the word in Hebrew “Hashem.” “And the most beautiful thing is to respect their religion and that they respect yours.” Chavez wishes his customers a peaceful Sabbath Noe!’ As if you were part of their community,” Chavez said Archive REMODELING-RENOVATION Huge quantities of foam suspected to be toxic formed earlier this week in an irrigation canal of the Valsequillo dam in Puebla According to the environmentalist organization Dale la Cara al Atoyac the foam began to form on July 21 near the Valsequillo dam which is fed by water from the Atoyac river the problem is more than visible,” the organization wrote Monday on its Facebook page “We demand that responsibility be taken for the critical situation of the environment located in the southern part of the municipality of Puebla was created by a mixture of pollutants that are dumped into it including heavy metals like lead and cadmium The canal also receives household organic waste the decomposition of which releases gases that The canal provides irrigation for around 1,000 hectares of farms in 17 Puebla municipalities The foam has reached fields in Tecamachalco but it is not known whether there are any adverse health effects for humans from consuming food grown with the contaminated water There was a tragic effect on Sunday when a man attempted to take a selfie of the foam-filled canal The 32-year-old fell into the water and drowned after he was dragged away by the current A woman who was with the victim reported the accident to Civil Protection officials but a search was delayed by foam extending for more than a kilometer in the canal the body was found in the Valsequillo drainage canal in Tecamachalco Source: Excélsior (sp), Televisa (sp) ADVERTISE WITH MND COMMUNITY GUIDELINES Subscription FAQ's Privacy Policy Mexico News Daily - Property of Tavana LLC ‘I think capturing love and joy is really important because it gives hope and inspiration on how to live in a country that is still violent to queer and trans people’ • Mexico City’s queer, creative community: Mayan Toledano’s work – in pictures Mexico City’s queer, creative community: Mayan Toledano’s work – in pictures a collection of photographs taken across five years in the city I went back and forth between New York and Mexico and I found connections from one person to another I mostly photographed the queer and trans community Everyone in this photo is either a musician I think capturing joy is really important because it gives not only hope but also inspiration for how to live in a country that is still violent to queer and trans people I had the idea of creating an empty house party – when you move out of a place and on the last day you throw a party for your friends I found this house for sale on a real estate website and I rented it for the day When we got there it was way better than it looked in the photos. The furniture was already there; we spaced it out a little. There was a room full of Jewish books and a mezuzah on the door I’m Jewish but my experience in Mexico is not a Jewish one as it’s a mostly Christian country both the look of it and then all of these elements that reminded me of home We arrived in the morning and my friend Hugo Matula set up a room to do makeup and hair I was also working in collaboration with another friend who runs the Mexican fashion company Tiempos – and we set up a clothing rack with items from the brand We let people play around with the clothing and express themselves as were the characters which we created throughout the day We started by doing portraits and later I gathered everyone for a group photo It turned into a party naturally because everyone knew each other to have this feeling of taking over an abandoned house and doing whatever you wanted in it My approach to shooting real love is that there’s an eternal feeling to it Even if you break up everyone stays in each other’s hearts in some way On the left of the couch are a lesbian couple Angelica and Cons: they’re some of the first people I met in Mexico City They work and live together and they have a really sweet relationship and really lift each other up The other couple on the same couch are Jorge and Danika: they’re funny The third couple aren’t actually a couple but they’re best friends The guy at the back is a photographer with the best smile in the world: Joaquin He’s holding a basketball I picked up at Esteban’s that morning because my nickname for him is “basketball” we went up to the roof and I brought out some colourful lights this is my life.” I don’t look at it as a project or an assignment It’s really how I and those people felt that day It goes back to the idea of capturing something in an eternal sense: I want to feel that those moments are not going away They were feelings and moments that happened Mayan Toledano’s No Mames is out now, published by Damiani books which was about spending a week with a woman who I’ve known my whole life No Mames.”Low point: “I don’t think there is one I’ve had such beautiful moments that I could never have imagined having in my life.”Top tip: “Try to create something you truly believe in Try to search for something that is really significant to you and keep doing it.” Take your pick of the trio of descriptions that defined Aurelio Lopez’s baseball career fails to reveal that perceptions of the past — even the recent past — can vary so widely from those of contemporary observers Ask any Tigers fan today who the team’s biggest pitching stars were in that glorious summer of 1984. The first two answers will surely be Jack Morris and Willie Hernandez. Many also will remember Dan Petry, and maybe even a couple will mention Milt Wilcox stalwart reliever and mainstay of the 1984 championship club’s bullpen will usually accompany their recollection with a smile while blurting out Lopez’s nickname both Greenberg and Newhouser were truly great players who became Hall of Famers But Aurelio Lopez was substantially better than most US fans now remember and the hard-throwing hurler remains a legend in his native land Lopez was so much more than just another hard-throwing relief pitcher with a terrific nickname Beat writer Tom Gage has covered the Tigers for the Detroit News for the past quarter-century Back when The Sporting News was still called the Bible of Baseball Gage wrote the Detroit season-in-review essays for its authoritative annual Guide In the 1984 edition of The Sporting News Guide Gage wrote the following in his essay reviewing the 1983 season entitled “Tigers Shed ‘Mediocre’ Label”: “Aurelio Lopez was one of the league’s more dominant relief pitchers with 16 saves and seven victories through August 1 before slumping in the final two months.” Gage’s review of the 1984 championship season was labeled “Tigers Enjoy a Dream Season.” Here is what he wrote about Lopez: “[P]itching had a lot to do with Detroit’s success The Tigers led all American League clubs with a 3.49 earned-run average and 51 saves The bullpen duo of Hernandez and Aurelio Lopez was the most consistently effective segment of that pitching staff.” Hernandez and Lopez were 19-4 with 46 saves and a 2.43 ERA Hernandez alone (1.92 ERA) had 32 saves in 33 save situations as he broke the team record for pitching appearances with 80 Voluble Detroit manager Sparky Anderson nailed it in fewer words “I can tell you the difference between Detroit and Toronto in two words,” Anderson said just before the Tigers clinched the American League East title Without taking anything away from Hernandez and his great season these remarks show just how important Lopez was to the 1984 world champion Tigers Aurelio Lopez is one of the greatest — and certainly the most underrated — relief pitchers in the history of the Detroit Tigers Despite its standing as one of the American League’s charter franchises the Tigers don’t exactly have a history of strong relievers After the top five (statistics through 2009) you’re in pretty undistinguished territory (Jones got three mentions in 2000; Lopez received on in 1979.) allowing five hits and two walks while striking out six Jones pitched seven innings in seven games in the postseason for Detroit He fanned four and was charged with one unearned run from a fielding error he committed the distinguishing mark of Jones’ career is mainly longevity He was rarely brilliant and would probably have been a disaster if asked to carry the kind of workload that Lopez shouldered — whereas Lopez would probably have excelled in the cosseted milieu of the contemporary closer Mike Henneman took over from Guillermo Hernandez as the Tigers’ closer in 1988, bridging the heydays of the Bruce Sutter–Goose Gossage era with the Dennis Eckersley-Mariano Rivera era innings in 491 games in his nine seasons in Detroit never leading the league in any pitching category of note receiving only one American League All-Star nod and only a solitary third-place vote for Rookie of the Year Henneman was at his best in his first five seasons in the majors when he won 49 and lost only 21 while averaging more than 1 innings per appearance and posting an ERA+ of 139 (ERA+ is a comparison of the pitcher’s ERA to the league ERA adjusted for ballpark; 100 is average.) In the post-season for the Tigers Henneman won one game after blowing the save opportunity in three appearances in the 1987 ALCS allowing six hits and six runs in five frames Hiller’s career was something like Hernandez’s in that it featured a brilliant peak of two consecutive seasons adjusts his ratings for closers to reflect the extra value of their innings Jones managed only 4.9 Pitcher Wins while with Detroit That rating better reflects Lopez’s place in Detroit bullpen history Aurelio Alejandro Lopez y Rios was born on September 21 in the village of Tecamachalco in Puebla state Aurelio in 1972 and Kachia Guadalupe in 1976 Many Tigers fans still remember Lopez fondly The Detroit rock band Electric Six named its second album Señor Smoke in his honor The album was released in 2005 in the United Kingdom by Rushmore Records Metropolis Records released the album a year later in the United States Lopez made his professional debut at the age of 18 in the minor-league Mexican Southeast League in 1967 The young pitcher showed a distinct lack of control but also a lot of talent catching the eye of scout Ramon “Chita” Garcia of the Mexico City Diablos Rojos (Red Devils) a newly organized farm club of the Red Devils in the Mexican Southeast League a minor league rated as Class A by Organized Baseball Lopez was pitching for the powerful Red Devils in the Mexican League; he was used mostly as a starter in his first four seasons The prestigious Mexican League was at that time the pinnacle of pro baseball in that country the Mexican League was rated by Organized Baseball as a Triple-A league The callow young pitcher was farmed out in 1969 by Mexico City to Minatitlan of the Mexican Southeast League There he appeared in 16 games before returning to the parent club for good Lopez hurled a perfect game against Ciudad del Carmen converted the young righty into a full-time relief pitcher Lopez worked exclusively out of the bullpen (aside from two starts) Lopez led the loop in appearances and saves for four consecutive seasons (1974 through 1977) and his name is scattered today throughout the Mexican League single-season and career pitching leaders Lopez set a Mexican League record by pitching in 71 games he broke his own record by appearing in 73 games His 30 saves in 1977 shattered the previous Mexican League record of 24 (set in 1973); Lopez’s save record stood for 14 years He also set a record in ’77 with 19 wins in relief while losing in the championship series in three other years The strong-armed right-hander compiled a 97-83 record with a 3.18 ERA in 472 games (108 starts) He also notched at least 99 saves (saves were not recorded in Mexico before 1973) Lopez went 19-8 with a 2.01 ERA and 30 saves in 73 games winning the loop’s 1977 Jugador Mas Valioso (MVP) Award Lopez also pitched in the Mexican Pacific League winning the loop’s Most Valuable Player awards for the 1973-74 and 1976-77 seasons when he was with Mazatlan and Guasave Lopez was honored by being inducted into the Salon de la Fama del Beisbol Profesional de Mexico (Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame) on June 19 Lopez’s biography on the Salon de la Fama Web site says that he was considered the fastest pitcher in the history of Mexican baseball Señor Smoke was also known as “El Lanzallama” — the flamethrower Lopez made his major-league debut in 1974 at the age of 25 after being purchased by Kansas City on August 29 from Mexico City He appeared in eight games in the last five weeks of the season allowing 21 hits and 10 walks in 16 innings while striking out only five hitters the young Mexican hurler wasn’t ready for the big leagues yet and the Royals sold him back to the Mexico City club the following spring a more experienced Lopez returned to the major leagues with St Louis after being purchased by the Cardinals from Mexico City on October 26 Louis first farmed him out to Triple-A Springfield of the American Association where Lopez appeared in 34 games in relief in 1978 showing the first inkling of the kind of explosive stuff he would soon bring to Detroit appearing in 25 games while making four starts Detroit acquired Lopez as part of a four-player trade with St. Louis on December 4, 1978. The Tigers sent two young left-handed pitchers, Bob Sykes and Jack Murphy, to the Cardinals, receiving veteran outfielder Jerry Morales and Lopez in return but at the time he was probably regarded as the least important of the four players in the swap Veteran Detroit baseball writer Jim Hawkins described Lopez merely as a “hard-throwing right-handed reliever” who was “4-2 mainly in long relief with the Cardinals.” Yet Lopez had by far the best career after the trade of any of the quartet involved Morales was a complete bust in Motown and was sent packing after one season (.211 average,.624 OPS in 129 games) splitting time in right field with lefty swinger Champ Summers Sykes had posted a 6-6 record with a 3.94 ERA in 93 managing only a 12-13 record and a 5.08 ERA in 62 games in 1979-81 before closing out his career in the minors in 1982 Murphy spent two disappointing years in the Cards’ system and one year in the Montreal Expos’ organization before finishing his career in 1981 making the Mexican hurler the club’s closer in early July The hard-throwing righty inherited the mantle of 36-year-old lefty change-up artist John Hiller who was nearing the end of his fine career the Tigers’ new manager called on Lopez 48 times in his 106 games as skipper in 1979 Lopez responded beautifully to the greater workload and greater responsibility going 10-4 with 21 saves and a 1.87 ERA under Anderson while becoming Detroit’s closer of the future Lopez was invited to tour Japan with an American League all-star squad during the 1979-80 offseason Lopez had an outstanding fastball plus a slider and a screwball a repertoire he continued to employ till the end of his career sometimes dropping from three-quarters down to sidearm against right-handed hitters His herky-jerky motion gave him good deception he could locate his fastball well or simply throw it by most hitters Lopez – like many major leaguers in their 30s – put on too much weight ultimately being listed as high as carrying 230 pounds on his 6-foot frame (He was listed as weighing only 200 when he debuted in the majors.) While he continued to throw hard till the end of his career scouts reported that his fastball lacked movement in the mid-1980s which meant that good hitters could pound it a long way if they caught up to it – which they did frequently in his two worst years when he allowed 1.8 and 1.6 home runs per nine innings the stalwart right-hander appeared in 304 games for the Tigers he allowed only 527 hits while walking 220 hitters non-intentionally and fanning 466 He saved only 80 games (and blew 22 save opportunities for a 78.4 save percentage rate) during those six seasons though he led the Detroit staff with 21 saves in both 1979 and 1980 and with 18 in 1983 Though 21 saves seems almost negligible by today’s standards for a closer Lopez’s 21 saves tied for third in the American League in ’79 and placed seventh in 1980 In 1983 the Detroit closer’s 18 saves were good for eighth in the junior circuit; in ’84 In 1982 the usually durable reliever spent 38 days on the disabled list in Detroit Placed on the Detroit disabled list in spring training with a sore shoulder when he was demoted to Triple-A to work out his problems with Evansville He was 4-0 (1.76 ERA) with the Evansville Triplets and was recalled by Detroit in September pitching well for the last month of the season Lopez was selected for the 1983 American League All-Star team while enjoying a stupendous first half of the season: 5-3 with a 1.83 ERA and 11 saves in 30 games allowing only 39 hits in 64 innings while striking out 60 The Tigers’ closer did not appear in that Midsummer Classic which the American League won 13-3 in a walk breaking a streak of 11 consecutive National League victories Sparky wasn’t talking about Lopez as his No who covered the Tigers as a columnist in ’84 identified Hernandez’s breakthrough as occurring on May 4 but the record shows that Anderson didn’t assign Lopez solely to setup work until June While Lopez spent the balance of that victorious summer in Motown as the No 2 pitcher in Sparky Anderson’s bullpen pecking order it’s not as if he was getting cuffed around while Hernandez was cruising toward his postseason accolades Lopez went 6-0 with five saves in 39 appearances holding enemy batsmen to a .224 average while whiffing 55 in 79 innings and posting a 3.08 ERA was not so good — a harbinger of things to come In September 1984 Lopez’s redoubtable right arm plainly wore out he allowed 21 hits and 10 earned runs while striking out only eight saving two games but also being charged with his only loss of the season The following season brought more of the same as Lopez was hit hard for the rest of the year (.849 opponents’ OPS 5.92 ERA) after pitching decently in April and May Anderson no longer entrusted a save situation to Lopez; by September the bullpen phone rang for Lopez only when Detroit was trailing; by the end of the year the veteran reliever’s days wearing the jersey with the proud Old English D were over the Tigers’ media guide said that Lopez “prefers heavy work load to stay sharp.” And years later Detroit pitching coach Roger Craig said that Lopez had really surprised him: “He told me that he could pitch three days in a row and he’d be throwing harder on the third day than the first I didn’t believe him till I saw it for myself.” The evidence strongly suggests that Lopez’s eagerness to pitch when combined with the quick hooks of starting pitchers that manager Sparky Anderson was famous for  Because of the brilliant bullpen work of Lopez and Hernandez the Tigers were the only club in the majors to win all 87 games that they led at the start of the ninth inning or later that the American League average in that category was 95 percent.) The 1985 Elias Baseball Analyst called the Detroit relief duo “the most effective one-two relief combination in baseball.” As a perfect example of how quickly things change one year later the 1986 edition of the Elias book placed much of the blame for the Tigers’ disappointing ’85 season on “the failure of Lopez to provide the same service … as a year earlier.” Because of Detroit’s dominance in the 1984 postseason He appeared in only one game in the AL Championship Series pitching three scoreless innings in Game Two and getting the win when the Tigers rallied in the 11th inning to defeat the Royals In the World Series Lopez worked three scoreless innings overall earning the win in the Game Five clincher when he fanned four Padres batters in 2 (He also appeared in the 1986 National League Championship Series with the Houston Astros entering the climactic Game Six in the 14th inning and taking the loss after allowing two runs to the victorious Mets in the 16th.) Detroit released Lopez after the 1985 season when the 36-year-old veteran slumped to 3-7 4.80 in 51 games while allowing almost a hit per inning – a sign of his declining stuff who released the 38-year-old veteran in midseason 1987 going 3-3 with seven saves and a 3.46 ERA in 45 games helping the Astros win the National League West Division in ’86 Lopez was one of the last of the old breed of closers — guys who would take the ball anytime starting in the seventh inning or later and expect to finish the game one cannot simply look at his save totals; one must look also at his won-lost record At the end of 1984 Lopez’s good name was included on four of the five lists of lifetime relief pitching leaders in Macmillan’s Baseball Encyclopedia including placing second in Relief Winning Percentage with his career mark of .685 Although his biography from the Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame says that Lopez was known as the Vulture of Tecamachalco he was most definitely not a “vulture” by baseball standards during his Detroit days even though he has erroneously been called so by some writers whose hindsight is not 20-20 Paul Dickson’s estimable dictionary of the national pastime defines vulture as a “relief pitcher who receives credit for a win to which another pitcher was more entitled; e.g. a relief pitcher whose ineffective pitching prevents an earlier pitcher from receiving the win only to wind up winning when his teammates retake the lead.” Take a look at Lopez’s 1984 stat line and game logs and find out exactly where he “vultured” wins from more deserving teammates one of which earned him a win and one a loss Twice he relieved a struggling starter in the fifth inning when the high-scoring Tigers held the lead and was credited with the win – a situation in which the official scorer could have awarded the W to another relief pitcher if he believed someone else had pitched more effectively than Lopez The final three times Lopez came into the game with Detroit trailing and was helped by the Tigers’ bats he neither allowed an inherited run nor was scored upon himself Lopez got the win after pitching a scoreless eighth inning against the Yankees before the Tigers took the lead in the bottom of the eighth In the ninth Lopez was touched for two unearned runs both scoring after Hernandez had relieved him There is no justification for calling Lopez a “vulture” in 1984 His gaudy won-lost record and relatively low number of saves is not a result of taking “advantage of the Tigers’ late-inning offense” (as one scribe phrased it in a 2009 retrospective on the 1984 season) it was the reverse: Detroit’s potent attack took advantage when Lopez shut down the opposition to win many games that the Tigers otherwise would have lost Detroit scored an average of 0.60 runs per inning in the first three frames in 1984 then 0.57 runs per inning during the middle three frames of the game and only 0.54 runs per inning in the seventh A great example of how one should not apply today’s standards to 1984 is that Lopez had only three holds that season, tied with Carl Willis. The team leaders, with five, were  Doug Bair and Bill Scherrer the 2009 Tigers’ mound corps had five pitchers with more than five holds with the team leader amassing 28 and the runner-up notching 15 holds Because the “hold” stat requires a pitcher to enter the game with a lead and not finish the game and Lopez often was called upon in tie games or when the Tigers were behind Lopez answered the bell more than half the time without a lead whereas Hernandez took the mound almost two-thirds of the time with a Detroit lead After retiring from baseball following the 1987 season Lopez returned to his native village in Mexico He was elected as municipal president (mayor) of Tecamachalco three years later after he was ejected from his “chauffeur-driven car and crushed when it rolled over him.” He was the first player from the 1984 world champions to expire the late pitcher was immortalized in Mexico the following year though it’s safe to say that Lopez was headed for the Salon de la Fama regardless Aurelio Lopez’s obituary in The Sporting News mistakenly states that “Lopez became a hero in his native land primarily because of the seven seasons he spent pitching for the Detroit Tigers.” That is demonstrably not true the final paragraph in the TSN obit rings true to Lopez’s character and to his life story “`It really wasn’t my idea,’” Lopez told the Detroit Free Press last year [about his election as mayor of Tecamachalco] You can never forget where you come from.’” A fitting epitaph for a standup player and a hell of a pitcher in his prime – in two countries Bless You Boys: Diary of the Detroit Tigers’ 1984 Season The Detroit Tigers: A Pictorial Celebration of the Greatest Players and Moments in Tigers’ History Louis: The Sporting News Publishing Company Wire to Wire: Inside the 1984 Detroit Tigers Championship Season “Morris Boosted Nearly a Million.” The Sporting News “Evans Named Tiger of the Year.” The Sporting News “Hernandez Tigers New Bullpen Ace.” The Sporting News “Lopez’ Old Fastball Gives Tigers Relief.” The Sporting News “Hernandez Deal May Put Tigers on Top.” The Sporting News “Tigers Count on More Tallies With Morales.” The Sporting News “Tigers May Trip Over Own Mound.” The Sporting News “Tigers’ 35-5 start in 1984 still has power to amaze.” Detroit News “Remembering Senor Smoke,” The Sporting News “Redbirds Try to Right Ship With 3 Unproven Lefties.” The Sporting News http://SABRpedia.org (Society for American Baseball Research’s online encyclopedia) http://www.SalondelaFama.com.mx (Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame) 24-7 Baseball/ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia Disabled List-Injury Register (unpublished) If you can help us improve this player’s biography, contact us 1980s All-Stars · Mexico · 1984 Detroit Tigers Meet the Staff Board of Directors Annual Reports Inclusivity Statement Contact SABR This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There 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four food and beverage companies are considering halting deliveries to the Red Triangle region of Puebla because of insecurity according to the regional president of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) Montiel said that a wave of truck robberies in the region is scaring off the companies whose drivers often refuse to work after 4:00pm because of the danger of being robbed Five trucks have been robbed so far this week in the region which has long been known as a hotspot for fuel theft will end deliveries to the Red Triangle if the situation does not improve over the next month He added that the presence of federal security forces has not improved security in the region and that there has been little cooperation from local governments in the five municipalities of the Red Triangle: Tepeaca Montiel said that since the federal government cracked down on fuel theft criminal groups in the Red Triangle have been diversifying turning to new criminal activities such as stealing cargo from trucks “But the criminals are moving into cargo robbery Although only four companies are actively considering halting operations continuing insecurity could cause economic problems for the whole state Bimbo and Grupo Modelo halted deliveries in the Red Triangle last fall for the same reason Source: El Economista (sp), Milenio (sp), El Sol de Puebla (sp)