Parents of children who were set to attend Arcoiris pre-school and 15 similar operations have been left scrambling to make other plans after the municipal government announced the mandatory closure of the child-care centers just …
September 1, 2025
Articles by Carlos Ivan Molina Aguilar
Tijuana evicts pre-schoolers with two weeks warning
Tijuana drug rehab not all it's cracked up to be
One of the less publicized effects of the drug cartel issue in Tijuana is the lack of governmental infrastructure for rehab projects. The drug trade produces plenty of addicts, and if the government can't help …
June 11, 2025
Neighbors in south TJ watch police fire shots at Kern County fugitive
It was right at noon on April 9 when one of the greatest manhunt operations seen in Tijuana, deployed by security and enforcement agencies of Baja California, failed to apprehend Cesar Moises Hernandez. Hernandez had …
May 5, 2025
Erick Carrill visited his father in Tijuana from San Diego and then disappeared
On May 19th, 2019 Eddy Carrillo's son Erick, who lived in San Diego, visited his father in Tijuana. He met with friends of his childhood and went out that night to celebrate but never returned …
January 13, 2025
Kumeay near Rosarito befriended Kumeay on reservation near Boulevard
Angel Diaz belongs to one of the five native indigenous people of what is today called Baja California; the Kumeay. He was born in San José la Zorra in the municipality of Playas de Rosarito which is …
December 23, 2024
Norteño, Mariachi, and Banda groups hire out at T.J. cemeteries
Like any other border city in Mexico, Tijuana is in a constant duality of identity, and this time of the year, it becomes easy to notice. On one hand, it is Halloween, and on the …
November 12, 2024
Prime Wheel in Tijuana cracks down on employees after worker disappears
More than a month has passed since Servando Salazar, a 10-year-worker at Prime Wheel factory in Tijuana, disappeared on August 23 within the company's facilities. His disappearance occurred in strange circumstances since security cameras confirm …
October 7, 2024
WhatsApp date turns into smuggling two guys in her trunk
On the night of November 17, San Diegan Esmeralda Rocha (not her real name) was crossing the border back to her home from Tijuana as she regularly does every weekend, when in San Ysidro's International …
January 30, 2024
TJ's breweries lumped together with nightclubs for security cams
A new alcohol beverage control law was applied last month over the six municipalities of Baja California. Tijuana is the one in which it has caused the most complaints and controversy. Bars, nightclubs, restaurants, or …
September 18, 2023