Martin Ramirez was born on Thanksgiving Day, 1975 in Mexico, which he eventually left for the U.S. He married a sweet woman and in 2004, when he was 28, his wife Rosa gave him a …
January 25, 2021
Mexico
Dad takes girls to Oceanside's Pit Stop Diner, ends up at Tijuana hotel
Artist Sand One gets copied in Tijuana, defaced in City Heights and North Park
On January 5, Sand One pulled into an undisclosed Tijuana strip mall where a questionable "doll" is depicted on an eyelash extension salon's signage. She activated her phone's camera, then zoomed into the doll's larger …
January 20, 2021
Baja shies away from medical marijuana
“The neurologist told me there was nothing more to do, that my daughter would probably die in about eight months,” said Alejandra Arreola, mother of a minor with epilepsy that used to have 80 daily …
January 18, 2021
A Mexicali Chinese New Year
Before washing up in San Diego, I lived as an expatriate “gweilo” (foreign devil) in Hong Kong for 20 years. In Hong Kong, I had cultivated a taste for exotic South China cuisine like blood …
January 11, 2021
Tight border into Tijuana helps those with double citizenship
Since March of last year, travel restrictions for tourists have affected thousands of Mexicans who have visas and still can’t cross to the U.S. For many with double nationality, however, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought …
January 8, 2021
Border crasher at San Ysidro de-capitated
“I was working as usual and then I heard screams. I looked around and saw the car running over people and those vendor's carts,” said Javier, a souvenir seller who witnessed the incident at the …
December 28, 2020
Firemen work as volunteers at fire near Rosarito
Last Thursday, December 10, the extreme Santa Ana winds that reached up to 60 miles per hour in Tijuana, Tecate, and Rosarito fanned wildfires which consumed four large ranches, according to Civil Protection of Baja …
December 15, 2020
Tijuana's wax museum, cheap Chinese motorcycles, Luis Urrea on both sides of border
Lifelike Tijuana "This is Tia Juana," Parra says, "the founder of the city. The historical society of Baja doesn't want to certify it. They say she was a legend." The other legendary figure is Juan …
December 14, 2020
Tijuana not always an easy place for a migrant to wait
Olman Paz, a Honduran national that migrated to Tijuana two years ago with hopes to reach the American Dream, has been harassed, beaten, and threatened with deportation by the police, despite them having no jurisdiction …
December 9, 2020
Imperial Beach helps those in Cumbres de Rubi who lost homes
On December 3, over 30 homes reportedly burned down in the Cumbres del Rubí neighborhood of Tijuana. M. García reportedly died attempting to rescue her cats. "She was a really nice lady," Ana Wooten said …
December 7, 2020
31 thousand lawsuits pile up in Tijuana
On March 17 all civil and family courts in Baja California were closed due to Covid-19. Baja California’s judicial powers said they lacked money to sanitize their installations, and the high number of Covid cases …
November 24, 2020
Influencer Andrew Muse sucker-punched at secret Baja surf spot
On November 5, Andrew Muse said he was just sucker-punched in the chin by a fellow American in Baja, California. “At that point, [my cameraman] Liam and I brought him to the ground where not …
November 24, 2020
Tijuana's respect for the body, goodbye Revolucion flower sellers. Frank Lloyd Wright and Tecate
Grateful to the Dead Earlier in the day I attended a one-hour lecture given by Dr. Luis Antonio Martínez, a dental surgeon who teaches anatomy to students at the university’s dentistry school. His lecture was …
November 22, 2020
Families take law into their own hands in Baja
In the 30 days of October, entire families from the United Collectives for the Missing Persons in Baja California held their own search brigade in Tijuana, Tecate, Rosarito, and Mexicali. The failure of the General …
November 10, 2020
30-year-old Baja man shot crossing border – did it have to happen?
On Friday October 23, an altercation between a Border Patrol agent and a Mexican man who was trying to enter illegally into the U.S. ended in the death of the latter. The incident happened a …
November 3, 2020