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
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Rains collapse embankment on provisional road
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
Dante Loaiza’s Maracuya: one of the largest working bands in show business
Dante Loaiza, late of Agua Dulce and currently of Maracuya, knows both sides of the border, and he allows that weirdness can break out on either side. “In Tijuana, we had one [gig] where some …
September 15, 2022
Author Richard Rodriguez crosses turnstiles into Tijuana
Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego form the most fascinating city in the New World My first trip across: the late 1950s. We were on our way to visit relatives in Ensenada. We …
September 11, 2022
Burning buses shut down Tijuana
Last Friday, Tijuana’s citizens experienced something that has never happened before in the city. Cartel violence has become normalized in the last few decades, but the town was in shock when armed groups burned at …
August 23, 2022
World War II Tijuana
The Loud Adios I wrote a story about her, called it ‘The Blue Fox.” and decided not to give it to the singles’ magazine. The publisher probably would’ve turned it down. It wasn’t dirty enough …
August 20, 2022
The sordid Rosarito trailer park
Brief Eden We didn’t see too much of the man in trailer number eight, who was supposed to be a Federale, except for the times when he would step out onto his wooden deck and …
August 15, 2022
The Sentri pass, crossing at Otay, the annoying seagulls
In Tijuana, you ride the rollercoaster that is the city and then you wait in line to leave. The journey out of one of the most chaotic cities in the world culminates in an equally …
August 3, 2022
Once again, Tijuana runs out of water
The National Water Commission declared a state of emergency due to a drought that has hurt five states in Mexico. Baja California is on the list. One month ago an outage in the El Carrizo …
August 1, 2022
Catch halibut with dead-sticking or bounce-ball technique
Dock Totals 7/10 – 7/16: 4424 anglers aboard 189 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings this past week caught 397 barracuda, 793 bluefin tuna (to 210 pounds), 1 blue perch, 4 bocaccio, …
July 17, 2022