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 with the downtown Tijuana was …
May 8, 2023
Mexico
Roads hang in danger in and out of Playas de Tijuana
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
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
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 …
March 14, 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 …
March 1, 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 …
February 27, 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, …
January 31, 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 …
January 18, 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 …
January 16, 2023
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
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
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 …
November 28, 2022
Tijuana's high-rises soar – and so do the rents
I moved into my first apartment in Tijuana in March of 2012. It was a nice one-bedroom place on the top floor of a three-story building in Colonia Cacho. It came unfurnished, except for a …
November 16, 2022
Bicycling advocate crushed to death in Playas de Tijuana
On November 2 the Colectivo Roll Por Playas held a tribute to Diana Pelaez, a cyclist and scholar from the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, who was crushed to death by a cargo truck while …
November 8, 2022
Man tore skin off his face in Tijuana street
In the last few weeks, the border line area in Tijuana’s river canalization known as El Bordo has been in the spotlight due to crime there. One of those crimes is drug abuse; the attendant …
October 18, 2022