Imperial Valley musician Victor Bosc will perform Friday at Mexicali’s State Arts Center, located at New River Boulevard.
The “One Man Band” will present his peculiar style of music that combines rock, blues, folk and punk with a harmonica, guitar, hit-hat and drums, all played by himself.
The musician, who was born Victor Mendoza, decided to change his last name to Bosc in reference to the English word Busk, that means playing on the streets for money and which was his beginning in arts.
Bosc, who already recorded an album in which all instruments were played by him, sometimes invites other musicians to perform.
“Music changed my life completely since I got an acoustic guitar,” he said in a press release. “Music is everything for me at this moment and besides I have been living out of it for the last two years and little by little has become in my job.”
The musician won recently the first acoustic rock contest held by the State Arts Center.
Bosc performs Friday at 8 p.m. along with Mexicali bands Venus and Fractals.
Entrance is free of charge.
Debt addressed by officials
A state official met Tuesday with Mexicali Mayor Jaime Díaz in order to address the multi-millionaire debt the city has with the managing agency of pensions and healthcare for public employees, known in Spanish as Issstecali.
The state said in a press release the meeting was held in order to provide the best service for public employees.
Issstecali General Director Javier Meza met Mayor Díaz to arrange agreements for the city to make the local government pay a debt inherited from the past city administration.
The mayor expressed his commitment to solve the issue as soon as possible by considering its alternatives.
The debt the city has incurred is about 500 million pesos or about $27.78 million.
The state has proposed the city at least two options to solve the issue, but city council members have rejected the proposals due to the fact that they would have compromised coffers for the next six administrations.
Meza said by covering fees from the cities would allow the agency to provide services like loans and pensions, as well as increasing quality of services.
The state’s credit ratings were lowered recently by Moody’s due in part to the extraordinary funds funneled by the state to keep Issstecali alive.
The state said within the next days another meeting will be held to set the path for the city to make the appropriate payment.
Mexico gets full allotment of water
Although California and other states located on the Colorado River basin suffer severe drought conditions, Mexico will obtain its full allotment of water for next year.
Mexican Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission Manager Francisco Bernal said its U.S. counterparts notified the agency his country will receive 1,850 million cubic meters or 1.5 million acre-feet of water for next year.
He said the amount was set previously on the International Water Treaty of 1944.
The volume of water was set based on models made by the United States Bureau of Reclamation during August of each year.
The calculation is made to determine if drought conditions allow the allotment of water for the next year to all Colorado River Basin users, Bernal said.
“The Mexican section of the IBWC will remain constantly vigilant of the Colorado River basin conditions, which since 2000 has reported a constant reduction in the levels of its main dams,” he said. “To date, the system is 52 percent of its storage capacity.”
Homicide suspects arrested
Two men were arrested for allegedly killing another man last month in a rural town, said the Attorney General’s office.
Authorities said a judge approved the arrest warrant of José Francisco “Doe,” aka “La Chamuca,” and José Santiago “Doe,” aka “El Chango.”
The men were allegedly involved in the assassination of Oliver David González Rosales, aka “El Moreno.”
According to the agency, the suspects arrived on July 8 to an empty lot located at Cuba Avenue at Colonias Nuevas rural town, close to the border with the state of Sonora.
Authorities said “Chamuca” presumably tied a rope at the victim’s neck while “Chango” hit the victim with an undisclosed object and later suffocated the now deceased man.
The suspects were booked in Mexicali Jail.
Authorities said the suspects allegedly committed other crimes against residents of several towns of Mexicali Valley.
Thousands of new jobs reported
The Mexican Institute of Social Security, known in Spanish as IMSS, said Baja California reported 3,371 new jobs during July, the lowest of the year.
According to the Mexican agency, over 40,000 jobs have been opened during the year in the state.
The number of jobs reported in July is below the 4,121 jobs reported on April, the lowest of the year until last month.
The state said in a press release the July jobs reported were 15 percent of the employment opened during that month nationwide.
Secretary of Economic Development Carlo Bonfante said the report is in agreement with the National Occupational and Employment Poll released by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI in Spanish), that reported 55,815 new residents employed during the second quarter 0f 2016 compared to the same period of last year.
Manufacturing, Social Services and Restaurants and Hotels reported little over 92 percent of the jobs created during that period.
