IN EUROPE, MR. AMIGO YANEZ LAUDS....MATAMOROS

By Juan Montoya
We got word that the 2013 Mr. Amigo Eduardo "Lalo" Yanez is in Europe promoting his telenovela and he Twitted to say that "por llevar este Mr. Amigo a Matamoros" is the most beautiful thing that has happened in my career."
Well, we always thought that Mr. Amigo was something that would put Brownsville, not Matamoros, on the map. But, alas, Yanez is promoting Matamoros instead.
"Como Mexico no hay dos," he says.
Oh, well, that brings the inevitable question: Where is the concept about the Mr. Amigo Association promoting Brownsville, Texas? Isn't this what Mr. Amigo booster Bobby Torres Jr. mentions in his email that stated IT ONLY MAKES ME STRONGER.
Well, Mr. Torres, Jr., where
is the promoting of Brownsville?
Outgoing Association president Yesenia Patino said that Mr. Amigo Association was being promoted not only in the good ol' USA, but also in Mexico. Now we are known in
Europe. Well, not really, Europeans know Yanez because he was in the old continent there promoting his soap opera and tweeting and promoting himself and Matamoros. As you can see for yourself, Yanez doesn't know or care to know the difference about Mr. Amigo or Fiestas Mexicanas. He just knows free publicity for himself.
Other details have come to light about his stay here. In the picture, the 2013 Jeep was sponsored by Luke Fruia to be used in the Saturday Charro Day Parade by the Mr Amigo association.

However, as can be plainly seen, it is being driven by  a Mexican national in Matamoros. Patiño and SylviaPerez decided to drive it across into Matamoros without any authorization fom Luke Fruia Motors or the Mr. Amigo board's knowledge to cross it without Mexican insurance.
If anything would have happened to it, the Mr. Amigo Association would have to not only pay for the damages, but also suffer the embarrassment of knowing that the expensive Brownsville Police Department security detail was left at the bridge scratching their heads about the safety of Eduardo Yanez since there was no security, escape route, and didn't know how long, with whom, or where Mr. Amigo would be.
At the time, reports indicated that when Yanez crossed over to Matamoros, some very colorful people were waiting on the Mexican side and pulled Miguel over and told him to get off the jeep because the girlfriend of a colorful and mañoso man wanted private pictures with Yanez.
Patiño was ordered off the jeep and was holding on for dear life while his wife waved to the crowds, basking in the limelight of the delirious masses cheering as becomes a budding movie star. The chauffeur and navigator don't look that friendly, do they?
We're sure that the truth will surface behind as what is developing to be a most salacious urban myth around Mr. Amigo is embellished. Is there in some major mañoso's house a treasured photo of Yanez and his movida, compliments of the Mr. Amigo Association?
Come to think of it, the private jet plane cost Mr. Amigo Association donors more than $13,000 and the room and board another $4,000. The least the ingrate could do is mention little ol' Browntown in Urp, don't you think?
For now, however, Yanez is crowing up the virtues of his trips to Matamoros where he had a rollicking good time at the expense of the Mr. Amigo bunch and the Brownsville yokels. As they say, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
(As we went to cyberpress, we learned that there has been enough concern generated about the past performance of the Mr. Amigo president and board that a meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, at 6 p.m. at Valley Regional Hospital at the Texas room. We'll keep you posted.)