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30-465: The city is located just off Federal Highway 200 east of the tourist attraction of Zihuatanejo. It has a population of about 21,000 people (2005). The center of the city has a traditional plaza which is surrounded by gardens and a basketball court. Around this plaza area are the Casa de Cultura (cultural center) and the municipal palace. It is known for markets and stores selling gold and gold items. A local dish

60-404: A common sight. These vehicles are associated with the many shootings and even grenade attacks that have taken place in and around the city in recent years. The violence is not limited to the city of Petatlán; it also occurs in its small rural communities such as La Morena, El Camalote and Las Humedades. A number of these have been partly or fully abandoned as drug-related violence grows. The violence

90-515: Is tamales with goat meat wrapped in banana leaves. The city is best known as the home of the Padre Jesús de Petatlán Sanctuary . The image is of Christ during one of the times he fell while carrying the Cross. The image dates to the 17th century. This image has been accredited with many miracles, with devotees referring to it as “Tata Chuy” or “Papa Chuy.” (Tata means grandfather, and Papa means dad. Chuy

120-411: Is a common diminutive for Jesús.) The image is housed in a large white church with very large wooden doors, whose official name is Santuario Nacional del Santo Señor de Petatlán. Just outside the atrium , vendors selling gold and religious items congregate. It is a regional pilgrimage site, which is particularly visited during Holy Week , when as many as 30,000 people come into the city. During this week,

150-507: Is among local drug lords over turf. Other disputes are centered more in the rural areas over protected wildlife and natural resource rights. In 2004, there were problems with the illegal hunting of sea turtles and the collection of their eggs on beaches such as Playa San Valentin. In 2010, residents of Juluchuca and other nearby communities staged a sit-in near an arroyo where their rights to extract water were revoked to allow for drilling for petroleum. The most serious conflict has been between

180-716: Is politically motivated. The OCEP continues to exist and fight deforestation mostly through legal channels, although some are still accused by authorities of drug trafficking and membership in a guerrilla group. The group states the charges come from local caciques when the group pushes for new legal actions. The group has had more success in the Petatlan Valley than in Coyuquilla Valley, but in both areas there continues to be large-scale illegal cutting, with cleared areas then being used for pasture or to grow drugs. The environment destruction forces many local farmers to become part of

210-486: Is the current CEO. The company operates through two vertically integrated divisions: Boise Cascade's executive leadership includes CEO Nate Jorgensen, Kelly Hibbs (CFO, SVP and Treasurer), Mike Brown (EVP, Wood Products) and Jeff Strom (EVP, Building Materials Distribution). The company's board of directors is currently led by Chairman Tom Carlile, former CEO and CFO of Boise Cascade. After over-extending into non-traditional areas under CEO Hansberger and young CFO Agee,

240-469: Is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol BCC. Boise Cascade Wood Products manufactures plywood , engineered wood products and lumber ; it supplies a broad line of wood products and building materials through Boise Cascade Building Materials Distribution's 38 distribution locations. The company has approximately 6,000 employees across North America. Its logo, designed in

270-735: The Chumbias and the Pantecas . First Aztec presence in the Costa Grande region came in 1497. In 1504, Moctezuma Xocoyotzin established the tribute province of Cihuatlán, with included the Petatlán area. After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire , Petatlán was part of an encomienda belonging to Ginés de Pinzón. Evangelization was carried out under Augustinian Juan Bautista Moya. This same friar gathered

300-509: The 1960s, depicts a pine tree inside the containing circle. The company is neither affiliated with the Canadian paper company Cascades nor is there any connection to Boise, Inc. or Boise Paper, a division of Packaging Corporation of America . Boise Cascade Corporation was formed in 1957 through the merger of Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington , and Boise Payette Lumber Company of Boise. Robert Hansberger of Boise Payette became

330-557: The CEO, and the new corporation focused on ownership and management of timberlands, the growing and harvesting of timber, and the manufacturing and distribution of lumber products and building materials. By late 1958, the company had established more than 100 retail outlets for its wholesale distribution business. That same year, BC's first paper mill became operational in Wallula , Washington, to produce corrugated shipping containers. The 1960s saw

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360-513: The EWP industry today. After leading the company for 22 years, Fery retired in 1994, and George Harad was named CEO. During his tenure, the company focused on expanding its activity in distribution and reducing its presence in manufacturing. In 1999, Furman Lumber of Billerica, Massachusetts , was purchased, which led to a nationwide building material wholesale distribution system for Boise Cascade. The next decade continued to bring big changes. In 2003,

390-423: The acquisition. The company's 1.6 million acres of timberlands were sold in 2005 to help pay down that debt. Three years later, a publicly traded shell company bought the pulp and paper operations and became Boise, Inc., allowing Boise Cascade to pay off most of the remaining debt. The timing was fortuitous when, in 2008, the housing market collapsed and tough times ensued for the entire industry. Tom Carlile assumed

420-574: The area. The logging quickly began to exceed legal limits and began seriously damaging the ecology of the area, such as causing rivers and streams like the Coyuquilla River to dry up. Local farmers depend on these resources and, in the late 1990s, banded together to form the Campesino Environmentalist Organization of Petatlan and Coyuca de Catalan (OCEP). The group is best known for blocking logging roads, which had an effect on

450-524: The city holds a fair, called Fexpo, but the highlight of the week is a Passion Play in which 60 area residents are chosen to play Jesus and the other principal characters. The Play begins at the sanctuary, and then proceeds along a five-kilometer path, reenacting the Stations of the Cross , on the way to a hill in the Colonia Benito Juarez neighborhood, which simulates Calvary . However, in 2006, there

480-411: The company acquired OfficeMax . In 2004, Madison Dearborn Capital Partners purchased the paper, forest products and timberland assets and created a privately owned company called Boise Cascade LLC. Remaining portion of the company changed its name to OfficeMax and traded with ticker OMX. When Tom Stephens began as CEO of Boise Cascade, LLC in 2004, the company had incurred $ 3.2 billion in debt to fund

510-504: The company nearly went into liquidation in 1972. A management team under new CEO Fery got the company back to basics through the rest of the 1970s. After the purchase of OfficeMax in 2003, Boise Cascade separated its distribution and manufacturing businesses the following year. The pulp and paper assets of Boise Cascade L.L.C. were sold to an investment firm in 2008, then acquired by Packaging Corporation of America in 2013 and became its Boise Paper division. Boise had entered

540-513: The company sold the wholesale portion of its office products distribution business while keeping the consumer business. In the 1990s, Boise Cascade invested in engineered wood products, building mills in White City, Oregon , and in Alexandria, Louisiana , for producing laminated veneer lumber (LVL) . Boise Cascade introduced the finger-jointing technique for manufacturing LVL that remains unique to

570-479: The company's swift expansion into the forest products industry, as well as wide variety of other businesses. Boise Cascade owned concrete ready-mix plants, plastic manufacturing plants, textiles, and sand and gravel companies. In 1964, the company entered office products distribution. The mid-1960s brought an even more diverse portfolio including ownership of a motor home manufacturer, a cruise line, involvement in real estate and recreation projects, and an acquisition in

600-580: The dispersed peoples to found the modern town in 1550. This town became a dependency of the subdelegation of Zacatuna in 1786. During the Mexican War of Independence , Petatlán was made part of the Tecpan province, which was created by José María Morelos y Pavón in 1811. During the reign of Agustín de Iturbide , it became part of the Capitanía General del Sur. When Mexico became a republic, it became part of

630-551: The district of Acapulco, in the State of Mexico . When Guerrero was made an independent state, Petatlán became part of the district of Galeana. It became an independent municipality for the first time in 1870, combining territory from the municipality of De la Union and some communities from Tecpan. It was for a short time in 1871 and then reconstituted. In 1913, the town was besieged by the Zapatistas. In 1953, some of its western territory

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660-714: The drug production to survive. Mexican Federal Highway 200 Federal Highway 200 ( Carretera Federal 200 ), also known as Carretera Pacífico , is a federal highway of Mexico . The Carretera Pacífico is the main leg of the Pacific Coastal Highway within Mexico and travels along the Pacific Coast from Federal Highway 15 in Tepic , Nayarit , in the north to the Guatemala–Mexico border at Talismán , Chiapas , in

690-455: The engineering and construction business for major utilities. Boise native William Agee joined the company in 1964 and was the chief financial officer from 1969 to May 1972; the stock price rapidly rose to $ 77 in 1969, but was down to $ 15 by the fall of 1971. Boise Cascade's current headquarters in Boise was built in 1970, designed by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill . With

720-478: The industry. In 1998, two of the movement's leaders, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrerea, confessed to charges. With the support of Amnesty International , Greenpeace and others, the two were released in 2001. Since then, there has been continued sporadic violence, including killings, leading to human rights condemnations. Another activist, Felipe Arriaga Sanchez, was detained on charges of murder and criminal association in 2004. Amnesty International believes that it

750-447: The position of CEO in 2009, and began to lead the company through the slow housing recovery with investments in EWP and veneer facilities and the building materials distribution footprint. By late 2012, the company prepared to launch an IPO , which was completed on February 6, 2013, when it rang the bell at the NYSE . Tom Corrick was named CEO in 2015 and retired March 6, 2020. Nate Jorgensen

780-459: The share price at around eleven dollars, Hansberger resigned in October 1972; John Fery was promoted to CEO and moved the company back to its core competencies of building materials and paper products. As the 1980s progressed, a decline in the housing market led to a downsizing in building products distribution business, and by 1987, all retail outlets had been sold or closed. In the early 1990s,

810-508: The south. Upon entering Guatemala , the highway continues as Central American Highway 2 (CA-2). This article about the roads and road transport of Mexico is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Boise Cascade Boise Cascade Company is an American manufacturer of wood products and wholesale distributor of building materials, headquartered in Boise, Idaho . A public company with sales over $ 7.9 billion in 2021, it

840-413: The “campesinos” (peasant farmers) and local caciques (bosses) over logging and drug crop growing/transport in the mountain areas of the municipality and other parts of the Costa Grande of Guerrero. In the 1990s, the logging company Boise Cascade Corp. made efforts to establish itself in this part of Guerrero state, making arrangements with national and local leaders to log forests located on ejido land in

870-507: Was a grenade attack during the Fexpo in which two people were killed and about 50 wounded; since then, the crowds during Holy Week and the rest of the year have been much smaller. The name derives from two Nahuatl words " petatl " (straw mat) and " tlan " (next to), meaning "next to the straw mat". By the 11th century, the Petatlán area was inhabited by three ethnic groups: the Cuitlatecos ,

900-533: Was lost in the formation of the José Azueta (Zihuatanejo) municipality . The city's and municipality's recent history has centered on violence related to drugs and the environment. Drug-related violence of the past several decades has taken its toll as tourism is down, fewer come to shop in the city and many residents stay indoors for fear of a stray bullet. The violence and threats of violence have left streets empty after 7 pm. Pickups and SUVs with darkened windows are

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