Since February 19 when 25 cases of asylum seekers were accepted for review, around five hundred migrants have established an improvised camp in the Mexican side of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The Migrant …
March 9, 2021
Mexico
Inside the Biden migrant camp in Tijuana
Mary Ann Humfreville missing from Bahia de los Angeles for two months
A 74-year-old American woman who lived full-time in her home in Bahia de los Angeles in Baja has been missing for two months. Mary Ann Humfreville was discovered missing after she failed to appear at …
February 26, 2021
Baja governor prepares to rid Libertad neighborhood of TJ's oldest library
Through an executive order justified by a survey made on his Facebook's live-streamed daily conferences, Baja California's governor Jaime Bonilla gave away the Benito Juarez public library facilities, the Baja California's Cultural Institute building, and …
February 26, 2021
Sophia Cucina: Colors. Aromas. Flavors
She looks down on you as you come in. Sophia. Sophia Loren, that is. Her portrait is on the wall here, lit up like a Mona Lisa. We’re in a very cool-looking building with a …
Shaky Tijuana neighborhoods
According to data from Baja California's College of the Northern Border, 57 percent of Tijuana’s urban development is settled in dangerous areas. Olga Salas, a master's degree holder from the college, explained that the geography …
February 19, 2021
Tijuana neighborhood 3 de Octubre cracks up
On January 30, a landslide took place in Tijuana. This time, the working-class neighborhood 3 de Octubre, 18 miles southeast of downtown TJ, was affected. Marta Cardenas and her family built up their home here …
February 8, 2021
Tijuana benevolence in the age of Covid
On December 31, Jesus Equihua left home to find an oxygen cylinder for his mother, who was presenting Covid-19 symptoms. After a couple of hours, he came back with a 9,500-liter cylinder ready to be …
February 1, 2021
Three checkpoints, seven hours south of Tecate
We arrived at Punta Final Saturday at dawn after an arduous seven-hour trip. We left Tecate before midnight after packing the green Durango with camping gear and a shit ton of beer. The driver, a …
January 27, 2021
Dad takes girls to Oceanside's Pit Stop Diner, ends up at Tijuana hotel
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
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