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Dead bodies pile up at Tijuana's Semefo

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Playas de Tijuana – one of Mexico's five worst beaches

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MS-13 gang rules Tijuana migrant camp

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Deported nine times, Esther Morales takes things into her own hands

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Dead bodies pile up at Tijuana's Semefo

Once again the Forensic Medical Service of Baja California, known locally by the acronym Semefo, has been flooded with dead bodies. According to its director in Tijuana, Cesar Gonzalez, this ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

Playas de Tijuana – one of Mexico's five worst beaches

Playas de Tijuana still in the top five of the most contaminated beaches in Mexico According to the Federal Commission of Sanitation Risks, Playas de Tijuana is still one of ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

MS-13 gang rules Tijuana migrant camp

What started as a refugee camp close to El Chaparral Port of Entry in Tijuana has ended up as a sort of shelter for criminals and gang members from Central ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

Deported nine times, Esther Morales takes things into her own hands

“On this side, there are also dreams,” she says constantly to the people she helps out – migrants and deported persons. She was more than once in the same situation, ...

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San Diego tacos – from the beginning to now

It’s just after noon on a Thursday at Escondido’s TJ Tacos. The place is surprisingly uncrowded, with only about six people in line for the taco stand’s signature adobada tacos, a spicy blend of marinated ...

August 4, 2021

Neighborhood News Tijuana

“The poorest neighborhood in Tijuana"

At least 277 families have settled in and started a new neighborhood near the east edge of the city. The media calls El Cerro de las Abejas, 22 miles from the border, “the poorest neighborhood ...

July 30, 2021

Neighborhood News Tijuana

July 20, 2021

Film Studies Club rises from ashes of Cine Bujazan

On July 7 the Bujazan Cinema, one of the most important cinema tethers throughout Mexico, had its 70th anniversary. At the celebration, local filmmakers announced the opening of a Film Studies Hub in the theater. ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

July 5, 2021

Will TJ migrants move to La Mesa before tourists come?

Racial brawls, high insecurity, chickenpox outbreak, and even child sexual abuse are piling up within the migrant camp at El Chaparral-San Ysidro port of entry. On June 29 the security and civil protection secretary of ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

June 29, 2021

And you thought your traffic in San Diego was bad

The area known as the Santa Fe neighborhood and its surrounding areas was one of the most promising housing developments in Tijuana three decades ago. But now an estimated 85,000 people live in an eight-square-mile ...

Neighborhood News San Ysidro Tijuana

June 21, 2021

Mexican-Americans urge boycott of border vendors

As a result of an attack on a U.S. citizen by street vendors in the waiting lane to San Ysidro, daily users of the Port of Entry started a boycott against sellers. Through social media ...

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June 17, 2021

What does Tijuana’s DFMK stand for?

The men of Tijuana’s punk quartet DFMK — the letters stand for “doing fucking meth kills” on days when they don’t stand for “don’t fuck my kids” — allow that their hometown can get a ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

June 14, 2021

Tijuana elections: severed heads in a box and foam cooler, chopped torso in a bag

Last Sunday, Baja California held one of the biggest elections in its history. Mayors' positions for Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali, Rosarito, and Ensenada were in dispute, plus state governor and deputies. More than 4,800 polling places ...

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Swiss dogs win in Zona Rio

Eduardo Gonzalez guards the door to the dungeon, as he has been doing for decades. Nobody gets past without his say-so. The neon sign shines red. Sótano Suizo. “Swiss Cellar.” Swiss in TJ? Well yes. ...

June 10, 2021

Neighborhood News Tijuana

Baja teachers ordered back to schools, but many without this year's pay

Teachers from all levels will return to schools today in Baja California. They will take part in designing a strategy to make classrooms from the whole state a safe place of Covid for students. But ...

June 7, 2021

Neighborhood News Tijuana

May 24, 2021

Homeless in Tijuana hired to help line cutting

The chaotic waiting lane times to cross to San Ysidro are turning into hardships for some from Tijuana. Such as for Lilian, who on top of the four to six hours wait, got harassed and ...

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Dead bodies pile up at Tijuana's Semefo

Playas de Tijuana – one of Mexico's five worst beaches

MS-13 gang rules Tijuana migrant camp

Deported nine times, Esther Morales takes things into her own hands

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