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Tijuana tour guide takes us to all the fish places he can find

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Waterbeds – from my La Jolla garage studio to Paris

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Food missionaries serve migrants trapped between two border walls

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Roads hang in danger in and out of Playas de Tijuana

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Tijuana tour guide takes us to all the fish places he can find

I’ve been doing tours in Tijuana for more than 11 years. I remember my first client well. Back then, I announced my tours on Craigslist. Back then, my tours and ...

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Waterbeds – from my La Jolla garage studio to Paris

The first time I lay down on a waterbed, I thought, “Who wouldn’t want one of these?” The undulating motion of the water, the evenly distributed pressure against my body ...

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Food missionaries serve migrants trapped between two border walls

Since the March 11 end of Title 42, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their process is worked on, migrants crossed the first wall of the two ...

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Roads hang in danger in and out of Playas de Tijuana

One month has passed since a landslide took place in El Mataderom, the cliff where the road to Playas de Tijuana was built on. The original project to connect Playas ...

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La Sierra Residential hanging off cliff on road to downtown Tijuana

On April 9 La Sierra Residential, a two-building condo complex located on Cuatemoc Sur Boulevard, one of the busiest roads that lead traffic in and out of Tijuana's downtown, collapsed. The last several days the ...

April 25, 2023

Neighborhood News Tijuana

The CBPOne Kid gets across the border

Carlos Romero is a 14-year-old teenager from Guerrero, a southern Mexican state. He migrated with his mother and little brother to Tijuana due to drug cartel violence in his home village. Kids like him are ...

March 28, 2023

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March 14, 2023

Baja cracks down on cosmetic surgery with prison time

Medical tourism in Tijuana has been recognized for its high standards and affordable medical interventions, particularly in cosmetic surgery. But, since the Corona pandemic, government supervision of clinics and doctors that perform cosmetic surgery is ...

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March 1, 2023

I work the taco truck of Anthony Bourdain's TJ guide

“I’m doing this guerrilla-style!” shouts Antonio Ley, also known as El Tony Tee, as I approach his taco truck. “We got kicked out because of the stupid bike lane last week, and I have to ...

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February 27, 2023

Tijuana mothers protest move of prisoners to El Hongo

On February 5 mothers of prisoners in La Mesa State Penitentiary in Tijuana demonstrated in front of the prison to denounce the financial struggle they have been through since their jailed relatives were moved to ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

January 31, 2023

Benito Juarez, last park in Tijuana's Zona Rio, has its heroes

13 years have passed since the Centro de Resistencia Sabino Arellano was first set up in Benito Juarez Public Park, one of the oldest and the last remaining public parks in the Zona Rio area, ...

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January 18, 2023

Kids in Baja will skate anything

“In Mexico or Baja California, there is a lot of corruption done by the municipal police force as they arbitrarily arrest people and the officers ask for a bribe to release them, without going before ...

Neighborhood News Tijuana

January 16, 2023

Rains collapse embankment on provisional road

On April 14 of last year, an earthquake with an epicenter in Ensenada rattled Tijuana hard enough that the city closed its Simon Bolivar bridge. Eventually, it was determined that the bridge’s infrastructure was so ...

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Compensation for explosion in 20 de noviembre neighborhood slow in coming

On April 18 this year an explosion took place in the 20 de Noviembre neighborhood, and a condo was destroyed due to a domestic gas accumulation. One people were wounded. Building shards thrown all over ...

December 13, 2022

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Dirty words don't translate all that well from English to Spanish

Do you make these embarrassing mistakes when you cuss in Mexican? The exact same rhythm of “shave-and-a-haircut” translates in Spanish as chinga tu madre (“fuck your mother”). If we add the pleasant “two-bits,” it’s an ...

December 5, 2022

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November 28, 2022

Tijuana gas station clerk stiffed, dies on El Pacifico busy street

In the early morning of November 15, Berenice Rebolledo got an unexpected call from an unknown person asking if she was Ruben Valencia's wife. The person told her that something had happened to her husband ...

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Tijuana tour guide takes us to all the fish places he can find

Waterbeds – from my La Jolla garage studio to Paris

Food missionaries serve migrants trapped between two border walls

Roads hang in danger in and out of Playas de Tijuana

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