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With souvenir Menonite cheese<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n On Wednesday, I headed down to a small town about three hours from here to do a passport outreach, where the local American\u00a0residents could come in and apply for their passports. I went with four local staff and another officer. It was fun but a lot of work! We took almost three hundred applications during the two days we were there, which is pretty incredible.<\/p>\n It’s an interesting area\u00a0because there are two Mormon communities outside of Nuevo Casas Grandes – one is polygamist while the other is not. We would have the family of one man in front of us one minute, with his other family a bit later.\u00a0Colonia LeBaron<\/a>, the polygamist colony, had a terrible tragedy a month or so ago, when two of their members were assasinated by the narcos<\/a> in retalition for them speaking out against the narcos (after the narcos kidnapped another family member). There are also relatives of Mitt Romney down there (one was also kidnapped<\/a> and released not too long ago).<\/p>\n This trip was also a valuable lesson for me. I didn’t realize that before we could start our work, I would need to meet with the mayor (“I’m sorry Mr. Mayor, but I can’t spend the afternoon siteseeing with you, but what a kind offer!”) and that I would be beseiged by press and interview requests. It’s a very<\/em> small town!<\/p>\n The rest of the week was low-key – John and I had dinner at Los Bichis Monday night after work, then massage night on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Saturday morning, John broke his record by riding 50 miles on his bike – fanastic! He’s back at it this morning as I write.<\/p>\n We watched several movies this weekend, including “Babel<\/a>,” “Waltz with Bashir<\/a>” and “Doubt<\/a>” – all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With souvenir Menonite cheese On Wednesday, I headed down to a small town about three hours from here to do a passport outreach, where the local American\u00a0residents could come in and apply for their passports. I went with four local staff and another officer. It was fun but a lot of work! We took almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.criplomats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}