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Matt Potter 6 p.m., Aug. 16
Tijuana
Mexico: Keep that s*** out of the Tijuana River
U.S. diplomat suggests speaking directly and forcefully to our neighbor
Kevin Vaillancort, a foreign-service officer assigned to the U.S. embassy in Tijuana, wants to assure the people who have banded together to stop the sewage and contaminants flowing across the border that applying pressure on ...
New Tijuana pedestrian entry: a mix of Six Flags and prison
Yellow taxis still banned from both San Ysidro gates
“It looks like I’m entering a ride in Six Flags,” regular border crosser Yesenia Huerta comments after using the new southbound entry to Tijuana via PedWest. “It feels like you are getting out of prison,” ...
Border traffic Hell
Carmageddon, San Ysidro edition
Aviso importante para la comunidad de border crossers and visitors: prepare to suffer longer wait times heading into Tijuana starting late September. This is due to the third and final phase of the $741 million ...
2017 is turning into bloodiest year in history
Back to crime Tijuana
Twenty-six people were murdered the first week of July in Tijuana for a total of 793 in the city and a total of 1,023 in the state of Baja for the course of the year. ...
Bold assault at Tijuana office-supply store
Employees of Office Depot tied up by armed robbers
A group of armed, hooded thieves forced their way into an Office Depot in Tijuana shortly before midnight on July 3, tied up store employees with plastic bands, and stole cash, cellular phones, computers, and ...
Tourists taking Uber assaulted by Yellow taxi
Tijuana public transit wars continue
A few steps after entering Tijuana through the San Ysidro border, you get hounded by the first barrage of men in yellow shirts and black ties offering taxi services. “Taxi my friend? Rosarito, Ensenada, Hong ...
Rock en español? Naw, Rock en ingles.
"I was really inspired by Tijuana No!" says Latinized Hawk Auburn guitarman
When XETV Channel 6 went off the air last month, guitarist Raul Gonzales was one of some 60 employees who lost their jobs; he was a programming engineer in the station’s master control studio in ...
Tijuana priest hospitalized after attack by thief
Escaped knifing, stuck with a screwdriver instead
A Catholic priest was reported to be in stable condition at a Tijuana hospital on Friday, June 9, following surgery after he was stabbed with a screwdriver by a thief trying to rob his church. ...
Border Patrol on Tijuana River gains respect from enviros
Agents catch stench first
When newly assigned U.S. Border Patrol agents arrive at the Imperial Beach Station, one of the first things they are told: Don’t go in the Tijuana River. You don’t have to ever enter the water ...
Messages sent on blankets
600 dead in TJ so far, Sinaloa cartel blamed
When blankets are inscribed with messages and flung over bridges in Tijuana, they usually boast a narco-warning directed at rival cartels or authorities. Such narcomantas, as they’re called in spanish, are appearing increasingly throughout Tijuana. ...
May 24 Tijuana sewage, on top of Feb. dump, spurs coalition
Border patrol agents join Wildcoast and Surfrider
Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina and Councilman Mark West are out to change how the federal government deals with sewage that comes into the the city from Mexico. They’ve gained an unexpected partner: the union ...
It doesn’t look like a Catholic Church
Tijuana’s archbishop orders re-design of new cathedral
Tijuana’s new archbishop has rejected the design of a new cathedral that has been under construction since 2006. In an undated press release posted on the new cathedral’s website, Archbishop Francisco Moreno Barrón said, among ...
Uber in Tijuana is the Wild West
Cash payment option means drivers need to track each other
“My shift ends in about an hour. I stop work at 10 pm,” said Daniel my Uber driver in Tijuana. “It’s not drunks that concern me, it's the crime.” I’m a frequent Uber client and ...
T.J. General Hospital running out of chemotherapy drugs for children
"Their mothers are worried."
Fifty-six pediatric cancer patients being treated at Tijuana’s General Hospital are in danger of relapse and death because the state-funded facility is running out of chemotherapy drugs. “Up to now no child has lost treatment, ...
Paradox Effects — serious gear for those who play
"That's our robot," built from a streetlight, a heater, old speakers, and hoses
The workshop of Paradox Effects looks a lot like what you might picture when you imagine “Tijuana do-it-yourself boutique guitar pedals.” The low-ceiling warehouse overlooks TJ’s affluent Hipódromo neighborhood from the lower-class residential hillside of ...
