One Wing Low in Tijuana

[Leo Ryder]

Come to think of it, La Zona is a lot of fun. Many times when I had to travel outside of the country, I actually missed hanging out in la Zona.

It has a lot of good things all in 1 small block, that is well-lighted, fairly clean and safe, and it caters almost everything the little twerps desire.

1. Food. I especially like the raw clams and oyster on the half shell and clam and mixed seafood cocktails in lime juice and red pepper. This raw sea food is so fresh and tasty you cannot get in other countries. The fish soup and shrimp tacos are also good.

I also like various kinds of tacos and soups. I tried menudo, which is beef tripe in tomato soup, at a restaurant near the cathedral. Believe me it smelled like fresh cow shit. I would never tried it again. I could not get my courage up to try the various offals and intestines offered at the tacos stalls along Constitucion, where some tacos vendor allegedly got jealous and pissed off at Tony Giavanni.

2. Fun. I have roaring fun hanging out in the bars, mostly HK, ogling, flirting, groping the putas and talking shit with the bros.

3. Sex. The selection of putas in Tijuana are pretty good and cheap, certainly much better than all other locations in Mexico. It's lots of fun staying in hotel Cascada and pick up bar girls and street girls 24-hour a day for sex.

All of this debauchering don't cost that much in Tijuana compared to other mongering locations. I actually miss La Zona if I can't hang out any weekend.

I admire your courage of trying the raw seafood. I tried it a few times and did not like it. Anyway, I got to thank you for providing a lot of useful info about El Restaurante Mariscos La Perla years ago. I normally would stop here for some delicious seafood and corona before starting my adventure. The meseras here are normally pretty hot and flirtatious.

[One Wing Low]

Come to think of it, La Zona is a lot of fun. Many times when I had to travel outside of the country, I actually missed hanging out in la Zona.

It has a lot of good things all in 1 small block, that is well-lighted, fairly clean and safe, and it caters almost everything the little twerps desire.

1. Food. I especially like the raw clams and oyster on the half shell and clam and mixed seafood cocktails in lime juice and red pepper. This raw sea food is so fresh and tasty you cannot get in other countries. The fish soup and shrimp tacos are also good.

I also like various kinds of tacos and soups. I tried menudo, which is beef tripe in tomato soup, at a restaurant near the cathedral. Believe me it smelled like fresh cow shit. I would never tried it again. I could not get my courage up to try the various offals and intestines offered at the tacos stalls along Constitucion, where some tacos vendor allegedly got jealous and pissed off at Tony Giavanni.

2. Fun. I have roaring fun hanging out in the bars, mostly HK, ogling, flirting, groping the putas and talking shit with the bros.

3. Sex. The selection of putas in Tijuana are pretty good and cheap, certainly much better than all other locations in Mexico. It's lots of fun staying in hotel Cascada and pick up bar girls and street girls 24-hour a day for sex.

All of this debauchering don't cost that much in Tijuana compared to other mongering locations. I actually miss La Zona if I can't hang out any weekend.

[One Wing Low]

I did not state bodies of mongers were found.

I meant to say the trend looks like it will head in that direction.

You specifically stated that bodies of Tijuana "mongers" were found by the side of the road, dead, tortured for their ATM PINs, and that "more and more" would happen. I called bullshit and you provided a government web site that stated, in the second paragraph, that Americans not involved in criminal activities aren't targeted. It goes on to give anecdotal evidence of express kidnappings, mostly of Mexicans. Never does it say that a tourist was tortured and killed for his ATM PIN, or anything remotely approaching that.

While the zona is no place to let down your guard, these kinds of idle, irresponsible comments do nothing to improve the impression most Americans have of Mexico.

[Phordphan]

https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentRe...aspx?cid=14139

If you don't know something, it does not mean it did not happen.

To quote State Department's Office of Diplomatic Security:

"Kidnapping Threats.

Kidnapping, including the kidnapping of non-Mexicans, continues to occur. So-called "express kidnappings," attempts to get quick cash in exchange for the release of an individual, have occurred in almost all the large cities in Mexico and appear to target the middle and upper class. Express kidnappings are a common type of abduction and are based on the 24-hour withdrawal limit placed on ATM cards industry-wide. The victim is generally held for 24 to 48 hours and is forced to withdraw funds from a series of ATMs. Americans have suffered this type of crime, but anecdotally many local employees working for the USA Embassy or Consulates either have been victimized themselves or personally know a victim.

The term "express kidnapping" is also applied to the kidnapping of random victims held for brief periods where only small ransom amounts are demanded. A typical scenario may last for several hours and be settled for the peso equivalent of a few thousand dollars. USA and Mexican citizens are sometimes accosted on the street and forced to withdraw money from their accounts using their ATM cards."

You specifically stated that bodies of Tijuana "mongers" were found by the side of the road, dead, tortured for their ATM PINs, and that "more and more" would happen. I called bullshit and you provided a government web site that stated, in the second paragraph, that Americans not involved in criminal activities aren't targeted. It goes on to give anecdotal evidence of express kidnappings, mostly of Mexicans. Never does it say that a tourist was tortured and killed for his ATM PIN, or anything remotely approaching that.

While the zona is no place to let down your guard, these kinds of idle, irresponsible comments do nothing to improve the impression most Americans have of Mexico.

[One Wing Low]

I agree that unless we actively fight the bad guys, evils will eventually win over goodness. So we should all take every chance to fight evils anywhere we go.

In Tijuana or anywhere in Mexico, report any crimes and insist upon seeing the judges. If enough people do it, that would deter crimes.

There are many different taxi libre, yellow and blue cab companies although they may be painted in the same colors. You need to take down as much info about the offeding drivers, the cab companies and car numbers as you can. That would enable the policia to track down the right drivers.

The security situation in Tijuana has been greatly improved. I feel safer now that Tijuana seems to have a more professional, more competent and more visible policia force, at least around La Zona. I have not seen the bad cops of the old time. Murder rate in Tijuana has gone down to around 250 total in 2012 compared to around 320 in 2011. The main cause is the Sinaloa cartel has gained exclusive control of Baja Norte so there are fewer bloodsheds. I may be wrong in my assessment with my false sense of security and the bros are welcomed to shine more lights into the security situation.

That said, even during the worst time a few years ago, when the murder rates were high, my wing men left their iphones and car keys etc. in yellow cabs and Taxi Libres. We were able to enlist the help of cab drivers. They got on their radios and make phone calls and we were able to recover lost items within a short time. We did pay the drivers $10-$20 for their time, but the lost items could have costed a lot more.

Our only option is to alert the incident to the US Consulate in Tijuana, the California Border Control, and the Tijuana Tourism Office. The negative publicity would help them to clean up their acts together.

[NDsg0911]

What you reported is a serious breach of security by a cab driver. It's actually kidnap and extortion. It's not a long stretch going from this incident to kidnap and torture you for your ATM PIN.

I had bad experiences with both Taxis Libres and Yellow Cabs.

Some old guys driving a Yellow Cab was swearing at us in English for not giving him the $1 tip. Asshole. Lots of them would be ugly and * about tips.

One afternoon, the Taxi Libres agreed on $3 ride then demanded $5 in front of Hong Kong. I refused to pay. He kept the door locked and drove me back to la linea. I kept shouting to him to let me out but he did not stop. That's kidnapping. When we got to the McDonald on Calle 1 and Constitucion, there were cops on foot, so I open the window and scream for the police. He was scared so unlocked the door and let me out. I should have taken down his cab number and filed a police report to ram a cacrus up his brown ass, but I was in a hurry to get to La Zona where the sexy putas were waiting. I should have prosecuted for the benefits of the rest of tourists to Tijuana.

During the Jorge Hanks' time as mayor, yellow cab drivers had noisy demonstrations where dozens cabs blocked off Coahuila traffic while swearing at policias who tried to break them up.

It's a very rough world for Tijuana's cab drivers to earn $10 a day. I heard they have to pay bribes and kiss lots of asses just to gain a cab license. So they are jealous with gringos flushed with cash coming to Tijuana to fuck young Mexican girls. Business is now down to about 10% what it was. So a lot of cab drivers are now out of their jobs.

I have been taking the 10-peso share cab from la linea to Centro then walking to La Zona. Each passenger pays 10 pesos, so there is no chance for rip offs. On the way back I would take HK's free VIP van to la linea and tip the driver $1. He takes you all the way to the foot bridge, saving a walk. He can't shake you down without getting himself and HK management in big troubles.

I would suggest the bros take this kind of security breaches very seriously and take all necessary measures to prosecute the perps, to prevent the days when more and more mongers would be found dead and tortured by Tijuana roads for their ATM PINs.

Our only option is to alert the incident to the US Consulate in Tijuana, the California Border Control, and the Tijuana Tourism Office. The negative publicity would help them to clean up their acts together.

[One Wing Low]

https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentRe...aspx?cid=14139

If you don't know something, it does not mean it did not happen.

To quote State Department's Office of Diplomatic Security:

"Kidnapping Threats.

Kidnapping, including the kidnapping of non-Mexicans, continues to occur. So-called "express kidnappings," attempts to get quick cash in exchange for the release of an individual, have occurred in almost all the large cities in Mexico and appear to target the middle and upper class. Express kidnappings are a common type of abduction and are based on the 24-hour withdrawal limit placed on ATM cards industry-wide. The victim is generally held for 24 to 48 hours and is forced to withdraw funds from a series of ATMs. Americans have suffered this type of crime, but anecdotally many local employees working for the USA Embassy or Consulates either have been victimized themselves or personally know a victim.

The term "express kidnapping" is also applied to the kidnapping of random victims held for brief periods where only small ransom amounts are demanded. A typical scenario may last for several hours and be settled for the peso equivalent of a few thousand dollars. USA and Mexican citizens are sometimes accosted on the street and forced to withdraw money from their accounts using their ATM cards."

More and more? Would you care to show us any cases where this actually happened?

[One Wing Low]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ng-scares.html

A news report in 2008 :

" In January, US officials warned travellers to Mexico to exercise extra caution given a recent spike in kidnappings of American residents. According to the FBI, the number of abductions involving US citizens and legal residents along the California part of the border alone more than doubled during 2007 and, since November, has been at the rate of around six per month.

Sophisticated and violent Mexican kidnapping gangs are thought to behind the abductions, which typically target victims from families wealthy enough to pay hefty ransoms.

"It is a business to them," said Darrell Foxworth, an FBI special agent in San Diego division."They are involved in a number of criminal activities and one is kidnapping because it is profitable to them so they operate as a business because it generates income."

Victims were generally people with "family ties or business ties" to Mexico who made frequent trips from America, he said."And the hostage takers, the abductors, view these people to have some amount of wealth in order to pay a ransom. It appears they are not taken randomly, there is some pre-surveillance or pre-analysis beforehand."

About 90 per cent of the cases involve a middle-class family with no criminal ties living in San Diego and neighbouring communities.

The kidnappers are armed and often dressed in police or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement uniforms or pose as traffic officers to pull over victims' cars. Hostages are held "for a period of time to exact a ransom" and frequently subjected to "acts of brutality, torture, beatings," Mr Foxworth said.

"They are also starved. We had one report where a person was held for two weeks during which time they were handcuffed with their hands behind them the entire time, chained to the floor and fed only three tortillas and water. It's just unconscionable what's happened to some of these people."

As well as the increasing number of abductions, the FBI was also worried about the fact some of the kidnappings were taking place on American soil, Mr Foxworth added."Groups will come across the border, abduct people and take them back down to Mexico," he said.

The FBI will not disclose the amounts of the ransoms demanded, and sometimes paid. But in one recent case, kidnappers demanded ransoms of about £150, 000 and £25, 000 dollars for two women estate agents abducted while they were showing a property in southern Tijuana. Family members negotiated a payment of £13, 500 and dropped the money off at a location in Tijuana, but the victims were not freed.

They were found after police traced the vehicle used to collect the cash and the driver led them to a house where the women were held.

In January, the US state department said 27 Americans had been abducted in Mexico's northern border region over the previous six months and two of these hostages had been killed. It warned that "US citizens should be aware of the risk posed by the deteriorating security situation" along the border with Mexico."

More and more? Would you care to show us any cases where this actually happened?

[Phordphan]

I would suggest the bros take this kind of security breaches very seriously and take all necessary measures to prosecute the perps, to prevent the days when more and more mongers would be found dead and tortured by Tijuana roads for their ATM PINs.

More and more? Would you care to show us any cases where this actually happened?

[One Wing Low]

What you reported is a serious breach of security by a cab driver. It's actually kidnap and extortion. It's not a long stretch going from this incident to kidnap and torture you for your ATM PIN.

I had bad experiences with both Taxis Libres and Yellow Cabs.

Some old guys driving a Yellow Cab was swearing at us in English for not giving him the $1 tip. Asshole. Lots of them would be ugly and ***** about tips.

One afternoon, the Taxi Libres agreed on $3 ride then demanded $5 in front of Hong Kong. I refused to pay. He kept the door locked and drove me back to la linea. I kept shouting to him to let me out but he did not stop. That's kidnapping. When we got to the McDonald on Calle 1 and Constitucion, there were cops on foot, so I open the window and scream for the police. He was scared so unlocked the door and let me out. I should have taken down his cab number and filed a police report to ram a cacrus up his brown ass, but I was in a hurry to get to La Zona where the sexy putas were waiting. I should have prosecuted for the benefits of the rest of tourists to Tijuana.

During the Jorge Hanks' time as mayor, yellow cab drivers had noisy demonstrations where dozens cabs blocked off Coahuila traffic while swearing at policias who tried to break them up.

It's a very rough world for Tijuana's cab drivers to earn $10 a day. I heard they have to pay bribes and kiss lots of asses just to gain a cab license. So they are jealous with gringos flushed with cash coming to Tijuana to fuck young Mexican girls. Business is now down to about 10% what it was. So a lot of cab drivers are now out of their jobs.

I have been taking the 10-peso share cab from la linea to Centro then walking to La Zona. Each passenger pays 10 pesos, so there is no chance for rip offs. On the way back I would take HK's free VIP van to la linea and tip the driver $1. He takes you all the way to the foot bridge, saving a walk. He can't shake you down without getting himself and HK management in big troubles.

I would suggest the bros take this kind of security breaches very seriously and take all necessary measures to prosecute the perps, to prevent the days when more and more mongers would be found dead and tortured by Tijuana roads for their ATM PINs.

As I was leaving HK one Thursday morning around 9:30AM I got into one lone taxi libre waiting right outside. If my recollection from an earlier encounter was correct then the driver was a former Tijuana police officer. He spoke decent English and loved to practice speaking English with gringos riding in his taxi.

As we were leaving HK he informed me that the line at San Ysidro border was very long and offered to take me to Otay Mesa instead. I was a bit surprised because from my experience the crowd should almost be clear by this time on a weekday morning like this. Because of his insistence I gave him the benefit of the doubt and agreed to head to Otay Mesa...

[One Wing Low]

You are dead on about your assessment of CBP personnel.

I heard from official sources that DHS hired so many of them so quickly that they never had the resources to train them properly for their jobs. Well, Ms. Janet Neapolito did get picked to be the new president of the UC system. I hope she will train dem students better than she had trained the trigger, taser happy CBP guys. May eb she can even find jobs for UC grads in CBP organization. That would gentrify the rank quickly.

Outside of the POEs, CBP agents have a very hazardous job tracking and arresting illegal immigrants, drug and human smugglers who are well armed and will fight. Most CBP agents are young with young kids. I feel for their families. So I sort of give the guys at the POE a pass if they do stupid things out of their ignorance.

But If they deliberately trample on my civil rights, hell, I know a bunch of ambulance-chasing lawyers who would love to sue CBP guys, their supervisors, CBP and DHS for losses and damages on contingency basis.

Dem lawyers are all drooling at the $4 million settlement that the UCSD kid and his lawyers managed to squeeze out of the US government.

I am not surprised that this sort of thing happened with this particular CBP officer. If you have any experience dealing with the government agents here or in other countries, it is not unique at all that these agents do not know the law and regulations they are enforcing. Sure, we all make mistakes. However, if you have done any business with the government employees, especially the custom and immigration officials, you would have found that many of them are not qualified for their jobs. Each one of them has a different set of rules and policies. You can get extremely frustrated with these morons. But let's face it, es la vida! Sometimes I wonder if they are deliberately trained this way just to discourage people from entering this "land of opportunities".

[Village Chief]

I came back to the border Sunday about 9:30AM. The pedestrian line was the longest I have seen. It went past the footbridge then wrap around the park a few times. People were impatient and tension was high.

When the next presidential election comes around, just remember president Barrack Obama of the Democratic party was the commander-in-chief when these big, long waiting lines at the border happen.

Anyway, seeing the long line and the extremely high frustration level in these hapless pedestrian, my wingman and I wisely decided to avoid the crowd and walked along the car lane toward the gate. A lot of guys were offering the $5 (?) bus deal where you ride the bus to CBP's side door, bypassing the long line.

When I got to the gate, I showed my card to a young black CBP guy, telling him "Global Entry." He looked at it then brusguely told me to go back to the start of the line. Meanwhile he kept telling my wingman that Sentri could go though. I approached him again, saying I have been using the Global Entry card in the Sentri lane every week without problem. The guy started to get hot in the collar and getting loud. He told me loudly that Global Entry card is accepted only at Otay Mesa POE and I should go back to the start of the line or go to Otay Mesa...

I am not surprised that this sort of thing happened with this particular CBP officer. If you have any experience dealing with the government agents here or in other countries, it is not unique at all that these agents do not know the law and regulations they are enforcing. Sure, we all make mistakes. However, if you have done any business with the government employees, especially the custom and immigration officials, you would have found that many of them are not qualified for their jobs. Each one of them has a different set of rules and policies. You can get extremely frustrated with these morons. But let's face it, es la vida! Sometimes I wonder if they are deliberately trained this way just to discourage people from entering this "land of opportunities".

[One Wing Low]

I was eating a cup of bloody raw clams near the school girls' corner, when the vendor offered me napkins.

He asked me what should he called them when he offers them to his customers.

I had a sudden case of aphasia, when I could not recall lots of words, but 1 came to mind. So I told him, it's called "tampons."

So if the raw clams vendor offer you tampons, you know what to do with it. Hehe.

[One Wing Low]

Frequent travellers across Mexico's border should read:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1441124.html

Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas Death: Border Patrol Tasing Incident Complicated By New Footage (video)

Posted: 04/20/2012 3:21 pm Updated: 04/24/2012 12:40 pm.

The death of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, which garnered national media attention in 2010, has re-entered the limelight after PBS unearthed new footage of the incident between the Mexican citizen and border patrol agents.

In June of 2010, Hernandez-Rojas was struck with a baton by one border patrol officer and tased with a stun gun with another, after resisting deportation on the USA-Mexico border. He died shortly after the incident.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) insisted that Hernandez-Rojas' behavior necessitated the use of a baton and stun gun. CBP reports maintained that he 'became combative' and the baton and stun gun were used to 'subdue the individual and maintain officer safety. '

But new footage has prompted some to ask if the federal agents used excessive force.

The video, shot by Seattle resident Ashley Young as she was crossing a bridge from Mexico to the United States, shows a crowd of about 20 border patrol agents standing around Hernandez-Rojas. He does not appear to be moving, and Young says in the "Need to Know" report that he was handcuffed. She said she did not witness any evidence of Hernandez-Rojas lashing out on the agents, but they are clearly heard yelling in the video for him to stop resisting. He was then tased five times while calling for help in Spanish.

A small crowd gathered on the bridge and some yelled for the agents to stop. But Young says officers came along to tell the onlookers to keep walking. One officer demanded that two witnesses hand over their cell phones or delete the video they had taken, she says, but she kept walking.

Young said she "felt like she watched someone be 'murdered. '"

Eight individuals were killed along the border under disputed circumstances in just the past two years, according to PBS' investigative report about Hernandez-Rojas' death.

Two new eyewitnesses told PBS that Hernandez-Rojas "offered little or no resistance," and the San Diego coroner's office categorized the death as a homicide.

John Carlos Frey, an activist and documentarian who tracked down the witnesses, says in the report that he agrees with those who point out that Hernandez-Rojas was committing a crime by reentering the country.

"It is a violation of immigration law, that is true," Frey says in the report."It does not warrant a lethal bullet between your eyes or in your back."

The full investigative report will appear on PBS the evening of April 20.

[One Wing Low]

I am pissed off that a lot of older, ugly HK putas have been quoting $100 ST like they are really hot. Fuck their inflated rates.

I am not attracted to the escorts listed in various services such as MLB or Latina Angels etc. They look older and not very attractive compared to the abundant availabilities in la Zona's bars and the alley.

Besides I don't like to have go away from La Zona for a fuck, wasting precious time. I like to hang out in HK to flirt with the putas between fucks.

However, sexitijuana. com showed hundreds young, attractive girls. They work out of their apartments or will go to hotels. Their rates are significantly lower than those listed in escort web sites, and their pics look much younger, sexier and more attractive. Last time one young girl gave me directions in Spanish to the taxi driver get to her pad near the main market, he got so lost, driving around and around that area for half an hour, not finding. So I just gave up and went back to HK club for the sure shots.

I think the local availability is very large, with potentially very attractive young girls available via sexitijuana. com. I sure have senmany angelic looking young babes in disco like Las Pulgas. I wish I can access them.

The bros with good Spanish skills should encourage local semipros, especially the young, attractive ones, to post ads in craiglist or backpage.

I will post a few inquiries in Tijuana's casual encounter sections to see how things go. I encourage the bros to do the same to open up this big local availability to hold down Tijuana pussy inflation and to help local semipros compete against the inflated HK putas with their pumped up boobs and bad attitudes.