Tijuana

Tijuana As Purgatory

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Francisco Goya, Video, Tijuanerias, Mexico, Hugo Crosthwaite, Luis De Jesus Hugo Crosthwaite, Slidepollajax, Tijuana, Luis De Jesus Gallery, Latino Voices, Mexican Art, Arts News

Artist Hugo Crosthwaite learned to draw from Gustave Dore's drawings of Dante. The artist was born in Tijuana, Mexico and now lives in Brooklyn, which...

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Art Without Borders

John M. Eger | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Politics, Art, Economics, San Diego, Community, Globalization, Borders, Tijuana, Culture, La Casa Del Tunel, Arts News
John M. Eger

Just a few blocks away is Arturo Rodriquez's La Caja, a converted warehouse where artists from Tijuana and around the world are beautifully exhibited, and where San Diegans and locals visit for food and wine with their art.

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Separated Couple Awaits Immigration Law Change

AP | By CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Immigration Reform, Love Story, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Mexico, Immigration, Undocumented Immigration, Immigrant, Tijuana, Immigrant Love Story, Undocumented, Latino Voices News

TIJUANA, Mexico -- Agustin Portillo checks the oil in his wife's car, stores her luggage in her trunk and then drives her from his tiny apartment in T...

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Drug Cartel Threatens To Kill An Officer A Day Until Police Chief Resigns

GlobalPost | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Leyzoala, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mexico Drug Violence, Tijuana, World News

By Simeon Tegel, GlobalPost Even by Ciudad Juarez's grim standards, a threat from a Mexican drug cartel to kill an officer a day until the ci...

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Cindy Y. Rodriguez

RECIPE: Marcela Valladolid, Chef Of The Week, Grows Up In Two Worlds

HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Marcela Valladolid, Mexican Food, Chefs, Video, Food Network, San Diego, Latin Food, Celebrity Chefs, Mexico, The Food Network, Tijuana, Celebrity Chef, Latino Voices News

Chef Marcela Valladolid says she was fortunate to have been exposed to both her Mexican and American heritage early on in her life. She was born in Sa...

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Southern California's Broken Economic Ladder

Gary Orfield | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Latinos, Education, Labor, San Diego, Economy, Los Angeles, Tijuana, African Americans, Black Voices News
Gary Orfield

Southern California, one of the world's largest and most diverse urban complexes, is rapidly becoming a region of profound economic and geographic polarization.

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AT&T: Re-thinking the Re-thinking

Tom Alderman | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: AT&T, Tower Records, T-Mobile, Dept. Of Justice, Dropped Calls. DOS, Tijuana, Telecom, Pay-or-Play, Business News
Tom Alderman

For the longest time AT&T Wireless spent a lot of ad dollars telling us they had 'more bars in more places' -- which turned out to be quite true for Tijuana -- not so much for our phones. The ads were more apsirational than fact-based.

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Francisco Cortez: Does He Deserve to Be an American?

Agustin Duran | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Francisco Cortez, Mexico, Immigration, Tijuana, Pasadena, Kidney Transplant., Ice, Deportation, Los Angeles News
Agustin Duran

Francisco has given his best years to this country, 20 years to be exact, without asking for anything in return.

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Mexico Catches Key Figure In Tijuana Drug Cartel

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Mexico, Mexico Tijuana, Mexico Drug War, Tijuana Drug Cartels, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Violence, Tijuana Drugs, Juan Fransisco Sillas Rocha, World News

MEXICO CITY — One of the main operators in a drug cartel war that devastated the border city of Tijuana was captured by federal troops after he ...

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InterZona Urban Art

Carmen Zella | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Public Art, Murals, Urban Art, Street Art, City Council, Dabs and Myla, Graffiti, Boarders, Los Angeles, Mexico, International Relations, Tijuana, San Diego, Fine Art, Arts News
Carmen Zella

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MIT Promotes 'Positivism' In Mexico Cities Associated With Drug Violence And Despair

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Cultura, Video, Monterrey, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Tijuana, MIT Center for Civic Media, Juarez, Mit, Latino Voices News

It’s not everyday you hear good news, and lately, it feels like good news is especially in short supply coming out of Mexico. Luckily for the citize...

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Tijuana Will Not Be Ignored (PHOTOS)

Karen Curley | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Mexico, Tijuana Travel, Slidefreestyle, Tijuana, Mexico Travel, Los Angeles, Travel Blogs, Vice, Travel News
Karen Curley

Tijuana is Los Angeles naughty cousin. Angelenos call the town TJ and visit only when their better angels are on smoke break.

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In Tijuana, Deported Migrants Struggle To Survive

AP | By OMAR MILLAN | Posted 10.06.2011

Read More: Latino-Politics, Latino Politics, Tijuana, Deportation, Latino Voices News

TIJUANA, Mexico -- After 15 years of installing marble in homes in Escondido, California, Porfirio Perez was caught without a driver's license during ...

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Mexican Judge Sentences 14-Year-Old Hitman To Three Years In Prison

AP | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Edgar Jimenez Lugo, San Diego-California, Hector-Beltran-Leyva, California, Arturo Beltran Leyva, San Diego, Crime, Cuernavaca, Mexico, Tijuana, South Pacific Drug Cartel, Video, Jose Manuel Serrano Falmerol, Homicide, Kidnapping, El Ponchis, Drug Possession, Weapons-Possession, Tijuana-Mexico, Morelos, Julio El Negro Padilla, World News

By OSWALD ALONSO, Associated Press MIACATLAN, Mexico -- A Mexican judge on Tuesday sentenced a teenage U.S. citizen to three years in prison for ho...

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Tijuana Drug War Violence: 2 Bodies Hung From Bridge, Man Beheaded

AP | MARIANA MARTINEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bodies Hung From Bridge, Mexico Beheading, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Man Beheaded, Mexico, Mexico Bodies Bridge, Mexico Violence, Tijuana Drug Wars, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Violence, Marijuana, World News

TIJUANA, Mexico — Two men were slain and hung from a bridge, another was decapitated and a fourth was shot to death over 24 hours in Tijuana, th...

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TIJUANA STREET ART: Dia De Los Vivos by Josh Herman on Artillery

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crucifiction, Jesus, Street Art, Religious Art, Slidepollajax, Josh Herman, Mexico, Border Fence, Keith Haring, Tijuana, Mexican Art, Arts News

By Josh Herman Mordita refers to the small bribes required by Tijuanian police officers, but walking through this border town, the back door of the U...

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Elaborate U.S.-Mexico Drug Tunnel Discovered During MASSIVE Drug Bust

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Otay Mesa, Marijuana, Mexico-US-Drug-Bust, Mexico, Mexico Drug War, Drug Tunnel Discovered, Tijuana Drug Wars, Drug Tunnel, Tijuana, World News

An elaborate drug tunnel connecting Mexico and the U.S. was discovered when officials seized 20 tons of marijuana during a raid, according to the LA T...

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Mexico Drug War's Deadliest 2010 Attacks (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug War, Mexican Drug Cartel, Felipe Calderon, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Slidepollajax, U.S. Consulate, Mexican Drug Violence, Monterrey, Tijuana, Barack Obama, Drug Violence, World News

Wednesday's horrific car wash attack in Tepic, Mexico left 15 people dead. The tragedy was yet another in the increasingly bloody war against the cou...

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Beheadings, Hangings Plague Tijuana Amid Festival

AP | MARIANA MARTINEZ | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Innovative Tijuana, Felipe Calderon, Mexico Drug Cartel, Tijuana, Tijuana Festival, Mexico Drug War, Mexico, World News

TIJUANA, Mexico — A rash of decapitations and other gruesome killings have hit Tijuana since Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the borde...

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Calderon Declares Tijuana 'A Success' Amid Mexican Drug War

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug War, Calderon Sees Drug War Success, Felipe Calderon, Mexico Drug Cartel, Tijuana, San Diego, Mexico, World News

TIJUANA, Mexico — President Felipe Calderon calls Tijuana a success in his four-year-old war on drug cartels, though he is unsure that making th...

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Human Smugglers Kidnap 16 Migrants In Mexico

cnn.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexican Drug War, San Diego, Mexico Migrants, Mexico, Human Trafficking, Mexican Migrants Held for Ransom, Tijuana, World News

At least 16 migrants, including a woman, were being held for ransom by human smugglers in Tijuana, Mexico, according to a migrant who was freed, autho...

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I'll Have a BRT With the Sepulveda Pass

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Mass Transit, Tea Party, Mexico City, San Diego, Beijing Olympics, Brooklyn, Brazil, Interstate Highway System, Sepulveda Pass, Toyota, Tijuana, Los Angeles, New York, Orange-Line, Infrastructure, Bus Rapid Transit, Manhattan, Leonard Cohen, Curitiba, Orange County, Metro, Bogota, Los Angeles Times, Aarp, Lincoln Navigator, 405, Skirball, Economic Stimulus Package, Lax, Green Living, Light Rail, Los Angeles News
Joel Epstein

Every time I go over that damn Pass there's something missing for me. And that something is a light rail line running up the center divide of the freeway.

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Mexican Prison Brawl Leaves 23 Dead

AP | E. EDUARDO CASTILLO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico, Tijuana Drug Wars, Mexico Prison Brawl, Tijuana, Durango, Mexico Prisons, World News

MEXICO CITY — Twenty-three inmates were killed Wednesday morning in a brawl between rival drug gangs at a northern Mexico penitentiary, official...

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Help Wanted: Mexican Drug Kingpin

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mexico City, Arturo Beltran Leyva, Cartels, Juaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Assault Weapons, President Felipe Calderon, U. S. Drug Officials, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, Tijuana, Cuernavaca, Drug Prohibition, Beheadings, Los Zetas, Ramon Arellano Felix, Mexican Drug Kingpin, Carnage, Supply and Demand, Copenhagen Climate Summit, War on Drugs, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Mexico's drug-related violence will not end with the death of drug kingpin Beltran Leyva. Until we recognize that the U.S.-led global war on drugs is the systemic cause of the carnage, violence will intensify.

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Baja Earthquake Felt Across Wide Area Today: San Diego, Phoenix, Tijuana, Yuma Experience Quake

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Diego Earthquake, California Earthquake, California, Earthquake Yuma Az, Baja Earthquake, San Diego, Phoenix, Baja Earthquake 2009, Earthquakes Today, Earthquake, Earthquake San Diego, Earthquake Map, Tijuana, Los Angeles, Yuma Earthquake, Los Angeles News

A 5.8-magnitude Baja earthquake rattled the southwest United States today, and it was felt in San Diego, Phoenix, Tijuana and even Los Angeles accordi...

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