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Last week, Camerino tuned-up bikes for the 30th Annual Rosarito Beach-to-Ensenada Fun Ride set for April 18. The event, a notorious madhouse of semi-serious riding and beer drinking along the toll road between the two spring break towns south of the border, was more subdued this year. Normally, 6,000 arrive for the event, but this year crowds were only half that size. Other events, like a professional surfing competition, have been delayed or cancelled altogether due to the violence...
...once popular Rosarito Beach, where some 1.5 million tourists usually visit each year (and where 14,000 U.S. residents have homes), the narco-war news coverage has "murdered" business, according to city mayor Hugo Torres. Tourism in the first months of the year is off nearly 90%, he says...
...DIED. CORETTA SCOTT KING, 78, widow of Martin Luther King Jr. and advocate for civil rights; at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. After breaking free of rural poverty in Alabama, King met her preacher husband while she was a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music. Following the Rev. King's assassination in 1968, she sought to sustain her husband's legacy-largely through the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change, which she founded in Atlanta-while pushing for gender and racial equality under the banner of the civil-rights movement...
...balcony of a Memphis, Tenn., motel in April 1968, hid her grief, shielded her four children from the media and immediately took up his campaign for racial equality--eventually becoming one of the most revered figures of the modern civil rights movement; of cancer, at a hospital in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. In the days after King's death, she appeared at protests to echo his message and calm enraged supporters. Later she led a 15-year push that succeeded in 1983 in establishing a federal holiday in his honor, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and traveled...
...father hadn?t been one of them. George Ott, 63, of Brookfield, Connecticut was used to being in good shape. He ate properly and went to the gym regularly. Then came a diagnosis of kidney cancer in August, 2005. ?Ott chose to go to the Hospital Santa Monica in Rosarito, Mexico because the options given to him by American doctors had the potential of causing taxing side effects. Ferguson says her father soon faced a more dangerous fate starting on the first day of his hospital stay. ?They inserted a catheter,? she says, ?and his health deteriorated almost immediately...