Good Press

“While standing in the jewelry store of Jorge Espinoza, I realized that I had a bag on my right shoulder but no bag on my left shoulder,” Colleen McAvoy recounted of an incident that occurred on a recent trip to Tijuana. “Suddenly, we realized I must have left it in the yellow taxi which dropped us off nearly…a half hour before. [This bag was] the one with handbag, wallet, passport, camera, etc....

“Espinosa immediately jumped to our aid,” she continued. “He closed his shop and drove us in his own car to where we had gotten the taxi. As my husband and I were looking at dozens of yellow taxis and their drivers, Espinosa spoke to drivers, found a supervisor who radioed around, and within five minutes we were told that my bag had been found. In three more minutes, our taxi driver [Guillermo Lizarraga Alvarado] pulled up with my bag, completely intact.

“I could have left a bag in a taxi in San Francisco, New York, or any of a dozen cities and not had an outcome like that. Tijuana has many fine, honest, hard-working people who are suffering from a combination of the economic downturn and bad press.”