Mexico's deadliest city

[Jim Eshelman]

Tecoman, Mexico has acquired the tragic title of Mexico's deadliest city, due to the huge number of murders. Formerly in a safe region, it last year sailed to the top of the "deadliest" list, is likely to double last year's score in 2017, and has had an especially bad run for the last two months.

Here is a new article on it, with a warning that it isn't for the easily horrified:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/worl ... d=34985990

I set out to see if there was anything in the long-scope ingresses to show this, geographically unique to Tecoman, and whether anything exacerbated this especially in June and July.

Here is what I found:

The city has had a string of dormant solar ingresses, including the 2015 Cansolar and the 2016 Capsolar and Cansolar (just among those I checked). So there is nothing obvious to me for 2016.

However, the 2017 CAPSOLAR has Saturn 1°48' from square MC, breaking dormancy and giving primary voice to the < 3° Mars-Saturn square on the angles. Mars is < 5° from MC. Mercury is actually the strongest, 1°10' from Descendant. It doesn't narrow in uniquely on this one spot, but this one spot does fall within an acutely malicious Mars-Saturn + Mercury zone. (The new Cansolar is dormant.)

As for more recent timing, Saturn has been transiting square Capsolar MC. It's exact periods within a 2° orb for that location are:

Jan 14 to Feb 28
May 13 to Jul 18
Oct 8 to Nov 21

We can add the times of Saturn's transit across Capsolar Westpoint (these are approximate, since they're taken in longitude instead of RA; but they're close).

Jan 20 to Mar 19
Apr 23 to Jun 28
Oct 19 to Nov 28

If we combine them, we get most of the year:

Jan 14 to Mar 19
Apr 23 to Jul 18
Oct 8 to Nov 28

So far this year, the only time that hasn't had Saturn transiting the town's Capsolar angles within 2° have been the 34 days March 20 to April 22 and the time since July 18.

Not a slam dunk, but... interesting.