Los Cabos a La Carta · Los Cabos a la Carta

LCALC 09 de Abril de 2026

·1 hr 4 min·5 clips

The Mexican government has completely reversed its position on fracking, sparking immediate criticism on social media.

1. Los Cabos a la Carta, broadcast April 9, 2026, focuses mainly on water governance, featuring La Paz Mayor Milena Quiroga and a discussion of Los Cabos's ongoing water supply crisis. 2. Host Armando Figaredo leads the program alongside co-hosts Justo Couto and Eduardo Tapia, with La Paz Mayor Milena Quiroga as the primary guest. 3. The episode's core argument is that technological monitoring and political will—not massive new investment—can solve municipal water theft and supply failures, illustrated by La Paz's experience. 4. The program opens with the hosts noting Mexico's reversal on fracking policy, which they describe as a 'diametrical change' by the current government. 5. The hosts briefly mention that the Fiscalía General de la República exonerated the previous federal government of responsibility in an unspecified train accident case. 6. The pipero protest in Los Cabos—more than 150 water-truck drivers protesting CONAGUA's closure of illegal wells—is introduced as the local news hook for the water governance discussion. 7. Mayor Quiroga explains that La Paz's water monitoring center, the 'C4 del agua,' was built from scratch using locally trained recent graduates and ultrasonic meters connected by telemetry. 8. In 2021 and 2022, the C4 identified two points where approximately 180 daily pipe-trucks (roughly 10,000 cubic meters each) were being stolen directly from the municipal distribution network, not from private wells. 9. Quiroga describes the real-time diagnostic capability: from any well through 30 kilometers of aqueduct and into the elevated tanks, every liter per second is tracked, allowing supply failures to be pinpointed to a single street. 10. A concrete example she gives: a recurring drop in flow at the Carrizal aqueduct, from 100 to 90 liters per second at a consistent hour, turned out to be a tanker truck siphoning water with a suction hose—detected and stopped remotely. 11. The monitoring center's physical infrastructure cost approximately 2 million pesos; total instrumentation investment is estimated at under 50 million pesos over four years, Quiroga says. 12. CONAGUA director general Efraín Morales visited the La Paz monitoring center and subsequently sent staff to study and potentially replicate the system at the national level. 13. La Paz currently supplies approximately 1,100 to 1,200 liters per second to the network, achieves about 95-98% compliance with its water rotation schedule (tandeo), and has a single functioning wastewater treatment plant with a dedicated purple-pipe system for irrigation reuse. 14. After eliminating the huachicol, Quiroga faced a 2022 backlash: a disinformation campaign accused her of removing people's wells; she responded by publicly proving the thieves had been stealing from the network. 15. Quiroga states that since she entered office, over 50% of the municipal budget has been allocated each year to solving the water problem, covering drainage, instrumentation, well maintenance, and equipment. 16. Host Justo frames La Paz's solution as a contrast to Los Cabos, where a Spanish company was hired for similar work but has not yet covered the holes it left in streets. 17. Eduardo Tapia, as a board member of the Baja California Sur lawyers' bar, reports that the bar formally opposed the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling allowing Mexico's UIF to block bank accounts based on administrative suspicion without prior judicial review. 18. Tapia argues this ruling violates Article 14 of the Mexican Constitution's prior-hearing guarantee, and abandons a criterion established since the Medina Mora era requiring judicial authorization for account freezes. 19. The episode blends live Zoom and phone interviews with commercial breaks, covering national, local, and legal news topics in conversational style on Cabo Mil 96.3 FM and Facebook Live. 20. Ideal for Los Cabos and La Paz residents tracking water governance solutions and Mexican constitutional law; less relevant for listeners outside Baja California Sur.

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