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Media
Advocacy / Current Media Advocacy
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This section
includes news articles, news releases, media advisories, photos
and visual information boards generated by the
Border Project.
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| October
22, 2004 - Media Advisory —
"HANDS OFF
HALLOWEEN" - Scary
Alcohol Deaths Spur Action
From Law Enforcement, Youth
and San Diego City Council --
(pdf) |
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| September
3, 2004 — YOUTH STAND
ALONGSIDE POLICE DURING
OPERATION SAFE CROSSING TO
PREVENT UNDERAGE
DRINKING |
- News
Release - English -- (pdf)
- Media
Advisory - English -- (pdf)
- News
Release - Spanish -- (pdf)
- Media
Advisory - Spanish -- (pdf)
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| Op
Ed — BINATIONAL
REGION MUST SHARE IN SOLUTIONS
TO FIGHT UNDERAGE DRINKING --(pdf) |
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La
Cronica Article
Clipping — Rechazan
las ONG's horas extras para
venta de alcohol --
clipping
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Article
Clipping — Piden
cambio en alcoholes --
clipping
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| May
24, 2004 — Media Advisory
— BINATIONAL
OPERATION SAFE CROSSING TO
MEET MEMORIAL DAY REVELERS AT
THE BORDER
(pdf) |
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| February
12, 2004 |
| Frontera |
| Regulation
must be enforced
— Tijuana
Councilman Ranier
Falcón
Martínez
stated yesterday
that the existing
alcohol regulations
in the City must be
enforced, especially
when Town Council
has demonstrated
it’s disposition
to take action
regarding this
issue. At City Hall,
fellow Councilmember Máximo
García
López
backed
the modification of
the alcohol
regulation to
prohibit the
immoderate sale of
alcoholic beverages,
but
“nothing (to
enforce the reform)
is being done
about it,” Falcón
declared. |
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| February
2, 2004 |
| Frontera |
| Five
nightclubs fined for insisting to
pursue “all-you-can-drink” and
“ladies night” promotions
—
Tijuana
City
Hall executed an operative on
Friday night to detect any
establishments that would be
promoting these kinds of specials.
Five
Tijuana
nightclubs were fined late Friday by
the Direction of Municipal
Regulation during an operative
destined
to detect promotions that offer the
patron all the alcoholic beverages
he/she can consume for a fixed
price. According to the Director of
this city office, Marcos Villalobos Hernández,
the nightclubs fined were Cat’s,
Las Pulgas,
both owned by Tijuana businessman
Alejandro Ruiz Arretche;
Animale,
Aloha
that are also situated on
Avenida
Revolución
and the famous disco Baby Rock. |
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| January
31, 2004 |
| San
Diego Union Tribune |
| All-you-can-drink
specials targeted
— By
Anna Cearley, UNION-TRIBUNE
STAFF WRITER— TIJUANA
– Starting this weekend, bars
and clubs that offer "All You
Can Drink" specials, many of
them aimed at U.S. tourists, will
have to find other ways to lure
customers.
Marcos
Villalobos, Tijuana's Director of
City Regulations, said the clubs
could be fined from $15 to $2,500
if they continue to promote the
specials. Those who persist could
be forced to close. . .
(go
to article on San Diego Union
Tribune web site) |
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| January
29, 2004 |
| Frontera |
| All
you can drink specials under
attack –
According to declarations made by
the Director of
Municipal Regulation, Marcos
Villalobos Hernandez, this weekend
they will start implementing an
operative that will target Tijuana
bars and nightclubs that promote
“all-you-can-drink” and
“ladies night” specials. |
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