04/04/2015 San Quintin

Well, I am a manguero. I hire pickers. The going wage is 80-pesos per 12-hour days 6-days a week. I pay double that and the big mangueros regional have threatened me with "sancciones". My orchard is small 14 workers for 4-days. There is a choke point in Culiacan and another near Queretaro. Mangos must be fumigated with approved hot water to go further north. A license costs with appropriate bribes around fifty thousand US Dollars. Few mangueros can afford this. So Jumex comes around and pays around 2.80 dlls per 22 pound crate which must be selected by hand. I feed my crew too. And provide a clean outhouse with TP. Had to buy jumbo rolls of TP small ones would walk off 8-rolls a day extra. The trajabadores love babecued iguana, tortillas, pico de gallo and cola. It is said that mango fed iguana is coveted so they take as many as they like. Some climb the palms with hands and feet and drop cocos for comida.

Yachts, islands and jetliners take a lot of dinero to maintain. A staff of a dozen butlers and maids rrquires almost as many pesos as a casa chica with chiquita.