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Tijuana: Mutilated Body Found Hanging From Bridge, Believed To Be Rogelio Sanchez

AP | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico, Rogelio Sanchez, Rogelio Sanchez Bridge, Crime, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Wars, Tijuana Bridge, World News

TIJUANA, Mexico — The mutilated body of a state official who authorities said was suspected of giving fake driver's licenses to drug gang member...

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Death Toll Increases to Over 5,000 and Counting

Mary Ann West | Posted 12.02.2009 | World

Read More: Operation Gatekeeper, Undocumented Immigrants, Birther-Movement, San Ysidro, San Diego, 800 Mile Wall, H1n1, Swine Flu, Mexico National Commision on Human Rights, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, H1N1 Influenza, San Diego Minutemen, Tijuana, Usa, Passport, Kevin Keenan, California, Death, Imperial County, 1849 Gold Rush, Human Rights, Border Patrol, Birther, Humanitarian Crisis, Extreme Poverty, Aclu, Maria Jimenez, Immigration Policy, World News

The deaths of unauthorized migrants have been a predictable and inhumane outcome of border security policies on the U.S.-Mexico border over the last fifteen years.

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R.I.P. Hotel Caesars

Carolynn Carreño | Posted 11.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Salads, Los Angeles Times, Caesar Salad, Caesar Hotel, Tijuana, Leslee Komaiko, Style News

The whole leaf Caesar salad is not only the better Caesar, it is the classic Caesar.

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San Ysidro Border Shooting: U.S.-Mexico Border Crossing Closed

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Travel, Customs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, San Diego, Mexico, Border, Border Patrol, San Ysidro Boorder Shooting, Immigration, San Ysidro, Tijuana, Border Shootout, California, Home News

SAN DIEGO — Four people were injured in a gun battle Tuesday involving an attempt to smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico at the busiest borde...

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4 Americans Strangled In Tijuana

AP | Posted 06.15.2009 | World

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TIJUANA, Mexico — The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they re...

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U.S. Border Policy: How To Fix What's Broken

Jim Luce | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Funding would be better used to investigate and sanction U.S. employers who habitually hire undocumented migrants. This would not only be cheaper, but more humane.

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A Day Without Tourists

Mike Davis | Posted 06.06.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Swine Flu, Mexico, Tijuana, Swine Flu, World News

There are no tourists. Nada. Although the only confirmed swine flu cases locally are across the border in San Diego, Tijuana as usual bears the stigma.

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Tijuana: Body Found On Fire, Head Wrapped In Packing Tape

AP | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Tijuana Body on Fire, Mexico's Drug War, Mexico Drug War, Mexico Drug Cartels, Mexico, Foreign Affairs, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Violence, Tijuana-Mexico, World News

TIJUANA, Mexico — Police found a body in flames dumped along a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of this violent northern border city, authorit...

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Immigration Control Starts with Drug Control

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.15.2009 | World

Read More: Violence, Drugs, Air America Radio, Mike Papantonio, War, Mexico, Cartel, Immigration, Smuggler, Civil War, Tijuana, Ring of Fire, Ciudad JuáRez-Mexico, World News

What is most frustrating about the Mexican drug war chaos is figuring out the truth about whether all that drug violence is moving across the borders.

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Tijuana: Gangsters Spill Blood, Spread Fear (VIDEO)

Worldfocus | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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During the last year, more than 6,000 people have been murdered in Mexico's drug wars, more than 700 of them in Tijuana alone. Teodoro Eduardo Garc...

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"Poor Mexico, So Far From God, So Close To The United States"

Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.01.2009 | World

Read More: Chapultepec Palace, El Paso, Mexican Drug Gangs, Porfirio Diaz, Mexico City, Narco-Traffickers, Alan Riding, White Sands Proving Ground, Mexico, Tijuana, Defense Secretary Gates, Mexican War, Ciudad Juarez, Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz, Drug War, Yucatan, World News

If, like me, you're one of the millions of Americans who love Mexico, its current catastrophic crime wave can only fill you with sadness -- and fear that it will spread across our porous border.

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Mexico Deports Americans: One Man's Tale

New York Times | MARC LACEY | Posted 01.12.2009 | World

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TIJUANA -- The two men could barely communicate. One was a Mexican laborer, the other an American wanderer, neither with any pesos in his pockets. But...

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Mexico Drug Wars: Looking For Solutions

Open Democracy | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Killings, Mexico Drug War, Mexico City, Drug Decriminalization, Mexico Violence, Mexico, How to End Mexico's Drug Wars, Mexico Drugs, Tijuana, Calderon, Deaths in Tijuana, World News

How does one defeat an enemy who is more prepared, more ruthless, and awash in the cash necessary to buy the best weapons, surveillance and people? Th...

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Vicious Drug Turf War Turning Tijuana Into Killing Zone

Daily Telegraph | Philip Sherwell | Posted 12.30.2008 | Home

Read More: Drug Cartels, Mexico, Drug War, Tijuana Drug Wars, Tijuana, Mexico Drug Wars, Home News

The four men in bulletproof vests, Kalashnikovs held casually at their sides, crossed the street to Tijuana's Crazy Banana pool hall so calmly that on...

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Tijuana Drug Tunnel Becomes Art Center

AP | ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 10.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Drugs, Tijuana, Mexico, Marijuana, Style News

TIJUANA, Mexico — Artists and intellectuals now sip wine where drug traffickers once convened. Sculptures have replaced bundles of U.S.-bound ma...

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