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
Articles by Carlos Ivan Molina Aguilar
Norteño, Mariachi, and Banda groups hire out at T.J. cemeteries
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
Food missionaries serve migrants trapped between two border walls
Since the March 11 end of Title 42, which requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their process is worked on, migrants crossed the first wall of the two existing border walls. Small groups …
May 22, 2023
Roads hang in danger in and out of Playas de Tijuana
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
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