Stupid Shit in Tijuana

[Captain Solo]

Tijuana's raw sewage flows North into Imperial Beach, causing serious diseases and illnesses. Even tough CBP agents and SEAL guys get sick, damaging control of the border and readiness for war.

And the US is paying to clean it up?

It's serious when CBS focuses a 60-minute session on this issue.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/raw-sew...es-2020-05-31/

Raw sewage flowing into the Tijuana River brings toxic sludge to California.

Beaches are being polluted and communities, including the Navy SEALs and Border Patrol, are getting sick from the waste. Lesley Stahl reports. 2020 May 31 CORRESPONDENTLesley Stahl.

The term "crisis on the border" typically refers to immigration issues or drugs being smuggled into the country. But it has one more meaning, as we discovered, when we went to the border in early February: tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage that spill every year into the Tijuana River on the Mexican side and flow across the border right into Southern California, polluting the land, air, and sea.

Mexico and the United States each thinks the other should be doing more to clean it up, with no effective solution found on either side of the border for decades.

This is where the Tijuana River crosses the border into the United States. This cement structure was built to contain flooding from rainfall. But this isn't just rain water, it's a toxic mix of raw sewage from neighboring Tijuana, draining into Southern California on lower ground, eventually emptying into the pacific ocean.

Amber Craig: So, it effectively-- it's like a toilet flushing straight into this river valley.

Border Patrol agent Amber Craig took us on a tour of the sewage infiltration, showing us that what doesn't flush out to sea, washes up on land. Mountains of plastic bottles, furniture and tires.

Amber Craig: And this is a concern for us, too, not just because it's debris and waste, but because the mosquitoes love to nest in it, so.

It's a health concern, an eyesore, and it's hindering the Border Patrol's main mission. She took us to see President Trump's newly erected wall along the border: just this six-mile stretch cost an estimated $50 million.

What we found is that under the wall, there's a network of basins and tunnels built 30 years ago to try to capture the sewage from Tijuana. The red dot is me, next to agent Amber Craig, inside one of those concrete sewage collection basins. It's connected on either end to tunnels from Mexico to California that were constructed right under the wall.

Lesley Stahl: So you think of the smugglers and the migrants building tunnels to go under the wall. But the USA Government built this tunnel that goes under the wall.

Amber Craig: Yes, we built this so that the water would flow freely into the United States.

It has to flow freely because four decades ago the USA Signed an agreement with Mexico not to cause backup flooding at this area of the border. These metal grates at the ends of the tunnel let the water in while keeping the rubbish out. It typically works fine during dry weather, but not when it storms.

Amber Craig: The amount of water that comes through here comes through like a torrent. It is very, very dangerous. It is a raging river when it rains.

Lesley Stahl: With the tires and the barrels and everything-.

Amber Craig: Full of debris and garbage. That's correct. It's very dangerous.

The debris and garbage can hurtle down here with such force that Border Patrol agents have to open the grates to prevent the system from clogging. That means trash flows into California unobstructed. It's also an opening for migrants.

Lesley Stahl: The purpose of the wall is being totally defeated by this obligation of yours to lift the grates.

Amber Craig: You-- well, yup. It does make it a little more challenging to have to have that open. Of course, we don't want to have it open.

Lesley Stahl: If they go through that tunnel, they're in the United States.

Amber Craig: If the grates have to be opened, then we have to have a personnel, an agent, on the other side, keeping-.

Lesley Stahl: So as they come out.

Amber Craig: That's correct.

Lesley Stahl: How do the smugglers know that the grates are lifted?

Amber Craig: They watch.

Lesley Stahl: They watch?

Amber Craig: Sure. There're smugglers watching us probably right now.

Migrants are routinely caught risking their lives crossing in the sewage: some need to be rescued and decontaminated.

Lesley Stahl: Let me read you a list that we found of stuff that is in this water: fecal coliforms, drug-resistant bacteria, benzene, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium medical waste, and DDT, which has been banned for years in the United States.

Amber Craig: Yes, ma'am.

Lesley Stahl: I hear that sometimes the water turns funny colors?

Amber Craig: It does. We've had bright, bright purple, a bright pink, neon green, dark black.

Lesley Stahl: So the migrants are going into this?

Amber Craig: Yes, ma'am.

Lesley Stahl: And the patrol agents are going into this. Are they getting sick?

Amber Craig: Agents have reported various health injuries. Rashes are very common. Stomach issues. We've had one agent who had a flesh-eating bacteria. And he almost lost his arm.

Lesley Stahl: How angry are you and the other agents?

Amber Craig: We're frustrated, very frustrated. Agents know our job is dangerous. We've signed up for a job where we could be shot at, where we could die in a car accident. And we accept that. Nobody thought that they were going to come here and be exposed to this, to the sewage, and the chemicals and the smell.

Congress just allocated $300 million to address the sewage issue all along the border, a fraction of what's needed. Especially here, because of the rapidly growing population of Tijuana.

Amber Craig: It is a difficult situation. We're having to deal with another country. And the City of Tijuana, it's just a huge city, it's overpopulated. Their infrastructure isn't-- isn't prepared to handle this kind of flow. So it just comes right over the border.

The local Mexican sewage authority invited us to one of the main treatment pumps in Tijuana. It often breaks down due to mechanical failures. So workers have to wade underground in black sludge to repair the buckling facility. While we were there, one worker got so overwhelmed by toxic fumes he required medical attention.

According to the Mexican authority, the last line of defense keeping the sewage out of the USA Here is a small crew of sanitation workers who unclog drains by hand along the border. We found one of them, a man named Abel, clearing trash with a rake.

Some of the wastewater that does get collected is pumped into these giant pools six miles south of the border, where the sewage is supposed to be treated and discharged through this massive pipe as clean water into the ocean. But the facility hasn't worked for years, so what you're looking at is untreated sewage emptying directly into the Pacific.

We stood by the torrent with Fay Crevoshay, an environmentalist with Wild Coast, a watchdog group of concerned citizens from both sides of the border.

Lesley Stahl: How much sewage are we talking about?

Fay Crevoshay: Yeah. The local authorities say that it's 25 million gallons a day. We think it's 40 million gallons.

Lesley Stahl: And it's just gushing, gushing, gushing out.

Fay Crevoshay: That's what we have here.

Making matters worse, entire shantytowns have popped up in Tijuana's canyons along the border. Many of these makeshift shacks were thrown-up by people who moved here for jobs, at factories created by the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Lesley Stahl: These factories are dumping their chemicals?

Fay Crevoshay: Sure. We have laws, but there is no-.

Lesley Stahl: Enforcement-.

Fay Crevoshay: --control. So why spend money? The problem is these factories come here because it's cheap. They're going to pay the workers $8 a day. And this is the result. This is where the workers live. These houses have no services, no electricity-.

Lesley Stahl: No plumbing.

Fay Crevoshay: --no plumbing, nothing.

Lesley Stahl: This stream, this entire stream, is just raw sewage.

Fay Crevoshay: Sewage.

Lesley Stahl: When it rains, what happens to this stream?

Fay Crevoshay: It grows. They have a whole river! You see all the lying garbage, all around it?

Lesley Stahl: Yeah. That-.

Fay Crevoshay: It takes it with!

We saw tires everywhere, a lot of them from California that were sold to Mexican car-owners second-hand. When the tires wear out, many are used to prop up homes on the hillside or just get dumped and then get swept by the sewage right back to Southern California.

We wondered where all the untreated sewage that emptied into the ocean goes. Well, we learned that it can flow right by a USA Military training base. Hard to believe but the Navy SEALs are training right in the path of the sludge.

Lesley Stahl: Let me ask the SEALs, how many of you-- have gone swimming in that?

ALL: All of us.

Retired naval officer Mark West and four retired SEALs. Alex Lopez, Kyle Buckett, Bill Lyman, and Steve Viola. Told us how the sewage impacts those training here.

Steve Viola: It wreaks havoc on your system. Stomach aches, throwing up, I mean, coming out both ends—fever. And you just have to suck it up and keep going.

Kyle Buckett: We've had classes of, you know, 38 to 42 guys contract it during their training cycle. And it's a very, it's a big challenge for us to deal with that.

Alex Lopez: I contracted cellulitis. Which is-.

Lesley Stahl: What's that?

Alex Lopez: --a bacterial, like, staph infection. It just took off, and it started eating, you know, flesh on both my legs.

They say that the most vulnerable are SEAL BUD / S, those trying out to be SEALs, especially during "Hell Week" –.

Five and a half days immersed in the ocean, testing their endurance.

Lesley Stahl: Have you heard that during Hell Week the BUD / S now take prophylactic antibiotics?

Steve Viola: Yes, I have heard that.

Lesley Stahl: You were a trainer. Do you ever say, "These kids can't go in this today. I can smell it, I can see it. ".

Kyle Buckett: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, we have.

Lesley Stahl: You do-- you do.

Kyle Buckett: We have, we have. And then we have to transition to the bay or to a pool.

Bill Lyman: There's no waves in the bay and there's no waves in the pool.

Lesley Stahl: Are you seeing any reason for us to worry about your readiness?

Mark West: I think, I think that our readiness is being impacted. And you know-.

Lesley Stahl: It is being I'm-.

Mark West: Yeah, it is.

The SEALs say the Navy, aware of the sewage issue, is monitoring the water quality. So we found it odd that it is spending a billion dollars to expand the SEALs' training base much closer to the source of the pollution.

Steve Viola: Well we had outgrown the capacity of the buildings that we had. So that's why we moved down there.

Lesley Stahl: But were they taking the pollution into account?

Bill Lyman: No.

Lesley Stahl: The Navy did do an environmental impact study.

GROUP: Yes.

Kyle Buckett: The Navy's main focus was to see how much we were going to impact the environment. It wasn't focused on what the environment was going to impact on the Navy SEAL community.

The Navy turned down our request for an interview, but recently told Congress in a report that the run-off is a concern, yet its impact has been "infrequent and short term," concluding that it is easily mitigated. Serge Dedina, mayor of Imperial Beach, the city on the south-edge of the new base, doesn't buy it.

Serge Dedina: They've ignored the health and safety of their own national security staff, and that's absolutely unacceptable.

Lesley Stahl: Did you ever get any health problems from the water?

Serge Dedina: Yeah. I have a tube in my ear 'cause I had so many ear infections. My kids have gotten sick. Our lifeguards have gotten sick. Pretty much every one of our councilmembers have gotten sick. So it's-- it's devastated our city.

In more ways than one. Imperial Beach is a surfing town, but its beaches are closed a third of the year or more due to the toxic sludge.

Serge Dedina: I've got to spend my time hammering people in power to make sure they understand that dumping toxic waste on Navy SEALs and Border Patrol agents is a bad idea, and getting them to acknowledge that it's actually happening.

Lesley Stahl: If the Navy weighed in do you think things would begin to happen?

Serge Dedina: I think if the Navy brass weighed in, this would be fixed tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the Niagara of sewage keeps gushing, the grates keep opening, and Abel keeps at it with his rake.

Produced by Shachar Bar-On and Natalie Jimenez Peel. Broadcast associate, Maria Rutan. Edited by Matthew Lev.

© 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Lesley Stahl.

One of America's most recognized and experienced broadcast journalists, Lesley Stahl has been a 60 Minutes correspondent since 1991.

[DramaFree11]

Hey Cap,

Colombia's on my list as well. Cartagena as it's got some good tourist stuff to see. MDE is tempting as well on my end. Show on Netflix called "Dark Tourist" did a Pablo Escobar tour in MDE which looked like a interesting experience. The girls on Chaturbate you can filter for just Colombian and there is something unique about these girls that's different than what I have experienced with Asian. Mexican and other ho's. $600 sounds like a cheap price. And Direct which is the best. I have also been to Panama. Costa Rica. As you research more on Colombia I would be interested to hear. Will do the same on my end if any interest.

Skip MDE, maybe Cartegena is better. I do not have experience there, probably a little better then MDE, just not sure. Go to Russia, dirt cheap at the moment and way better. Europe is also going to be much cheaper.

[Captain Solo]

Rainman.

Thanks for your info.

Putas and women in any country can be nice and sweet and at times total raving girls. We just have to accept the facts of women's nature and work with it.

I am not into enjoying the charms, personality or wasting time chatting up bullshit with bar girls or cam girls. All I want are nice, clean, pretty girls I can stick my tongue into their mouths, suck their tits, ram my dick into their wet pussies, make them squirm and squeal in mutual pleasures. I fucked a few very beautiful Russian girls in Hollywood, one looked an exact copy of Natasha Kinsky. She was beautiful, nice, sweet and liked sex a lot.

Girls with hardened attitudes would turn me off. But we just have to take some bad with the good and enjoy them the way we like. Can't wait until this CoVid-19 bullshit is over for all of us.

[Rainman306]

"Since I have known Latinas in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal ect, I want to try European stocks. The first priority would be Germany and Eastern Europe to visit the FKKs and various sex venues may be in September when the weather is still warm and Octoberfest starts. ".

Captain Solo. I have never been to German FKks, but I have conversed with many cam models from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and Moldovia which is where 90% of the working girls come from. There attitudes can be very hot or miss, I. E. Very sweet or a complete *****.

I do know that your a veteran at this, but they are pretty good at covering it up for a short while and then the bitchzilla comes out when it is too late. Hitting a few cam sites, I suspect many FKK girls are on them now, to get some practice in may be very helpful.

Finally, I would completely avoid Hungary women they can be attractive with really nice tits but they all act like hardened con men when it comes time to play.

[Captain Solo]

Dodger,

This film was filmed in Tijuana with big stars, Ray Liotti and Andy Garcia. It showed a scene in a puta bar where a rejected girl told the gringos to "Go fuck yourself. " That kind of nasty attitude may happen in the US but would never happen among the girls in Tijuana.

It's a long story about the HSI trying to kill terrorists who seek help from Mexican drug cartels to enter the US. A lot of details in the plot are just not realistic. The Us hitman Liotti was stalking targets but had psych problems, could not shoot. He was wandering Tijuana streets, got jumped by a bunch of teenagers, robbed, beaten and left to die on the sidewalk. A MILF puta somehow carried him back to her apartment on the second floor, nursed him back to life. He went after the terrorists and cartel guys again, killed them all, took a big sack of US $, gave it all to the MILF puta ect.

The movie had a fake story and a phony, unrealistic plot. There was some good shooting scenes, but it's a typical Hollywood's action movie with little accuracy to real life.

For a good movie about Mexico's drug scene, El Infierno, written and directed by Mexicans, is far more authentic.

[LuvMexicanas]

Goyo.

When air travel returns, I want to visit a couple places.

Since I have known Latinas in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal ect, I want to try European stocks. The first priority would be Germany and Eastern Europe to visit the FKKs and various sex venues may be in September when the weather is still warm and Octoberfest starts. I will need a wingman to alternate driving and navigating. We would spend around 2 weeks driving all over Europe hitting many FKKs. It would be very exciting and a lot of fun having sex with hot Euro girls, at the same time exploring culture, cuisine, entertainment and the best local lifestyles on wheels.

After that I would visit Central America at the end of the year where the climate is cooler. Again mixing sex, cuisine, local culture / scenery tours to make it worthwhile for time and money.

Unless the powers that be in Munich have reversed course, Oktoberfest is canceled this year.

[Captain Solo]

Goyo.

When air travel returns, I want to visit a couple places.

Since I have known Latinas in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal ect, I want to try European stocks. The first priority would be Germany and Eastern Europe to visit the FKKs and various sex venues may be in September when the weather is still warm and Octoberfest starts. I will need a wingman to alternate driving and navigating. We would spend around 2 weeks driving all over Europe hitting many FKKs. It would be very exciting and a lot of fun having sex with hot Euro girls, at the same time exploring culture, cuisine, entertainment and the best local lifestyles on wheels.

After that I would visit Central America at the end of the year where the climate is cooler. Again mixing sex, cuisine, local culture / scenery tours to make it worthwhile for time and money.

[Goyo61]

Hey Cap,

Colombia's on my list as well. Cartagena as it's got some good tourist stuff to see. MDE is tempting as well on my end. Show on Netflix called "Dark Tourist" did a Pablo Escobar tour in MDE which looked like a interesting experience. The girls on Chaturbate you can filter for just Colombian and there is something unique about these girls that's different than what I have experienced with Asian. Mexican and other ho's. $600 sounds like a cheap price. And Direct which is the best. I have also been to Panama. Costa Rica. As you research more on Colombia I would be interested to hear. Will do the same on my end if any interest.

WekilledKenny.

You did not offend me or anyone. I enjoy your posts.

I was considering going to Colombia after CoVid-19. So I was searching Youtube to see the people and the scene. This guy Im_Marwah posted lots videos of mongering scenes in Colombia. He showed some very sweet-looking girls in Bogota or Cartagena, but most girls in Parque Lleras are below my hard on trigger threshold hehe. I went to Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize. The women are mostly large, obese and lumpy. Must be their diets.

I checked out flights for the year end. Flights from Tijuana to Central America via Mexico City are cheap. For about $600 I can go round trip TIJ-MEX-CARTAGENA-Bogota-MDE-MEX-TIJ. All routes are direct, no layover. The flights inside Colombia are about 1 hour apart. I can spend a couple days in Mexico City checking out the mongering scene.

Like all other mongering spots, the trip must be researched and planned out carefully or a lot of time and opportunities will be lost. It's very helpful to know a few local bros. I will contact them before I go.

[Goyo61]

Hey Doger,

Your the best. Just found it. It's called "La Linea The Line".

A few well known stars in it as well.

Watching it now. Good shots of Zona Norte.

Goyo.

A a good movie to watch if you miss tijuana is "the line" its partly about zona norte and from some scenes it was filmed at least partly in zona norte. I saw it a year ago. I remember it being an ok movie. I think it was on amazon as I usually do the free amazon trial every year.

[Captain Solo]

My favorite movie about Tijuana is the fun, exciting, happy "Losin' it" with Tom Cruise and Shelley Long.

Of course the movie was a teen-age wet dream, way exaggerated for entertaining. Would love to fuck someone as pretty and spicy as Shelley Long, resist policia, but not buying Spanish flies, having my car seats stuffed with horse shit, fighting gangs and ending up in jail hehe.

My next favorite is "Traffic" with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones. Drugs trafficking and addiction near border towns are real and on going.

Posted May 02,2019.

By Matt Sulem.

To celebrate Cinco de Mayo, we not only put together a list of 25 movies that take place in Mexico, but we also only included quality films — whether they are drama, action, sci-fi, comedy or horror — in our list. To commemorate the anniversary of the Mexican Army's 1862 victory over France at the Battle of Puebla, here are the 25 best movies set in Mexico.

"Traffic" (2000).

If you recall, there are three storylines in the 2000 drama "Traffic," one of which was set in Mexico and featured Benicio del Toro, Jacob Vargas and Tom Milian. As a whole, the Steven Soderbergh film was critically acclaimed and won Academy Awards for Best Director, Supporting Actor (del Toro), Film Editing and Adapted Screenplay (Stephen Gaghan), as well as a Best Picture nomination.

"From Dusk till Dawn" (1996).

Robert Rodriguez as director? Check. A Quentin Tarantino screenplay? Check. A cast of George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin, Salma Hayek and Tarantino? Oh yeah. And did we mention it's also about vampires? The reviews for "From Dusk till Dawn" were mixed, but fans of Rodriguez, Tarantino, and the horror and Western genres propelled this film to almost instant cult status.

"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948).

Three out-of-work drifters (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston and Tim Holt) stumble upon a hearty supply of gold in a remote area of Mexico. The trio dream of starting new lives with their newfound wealth but must keep their supply and source secret from other prospectors, avoid a murderous gang led by a man named Gold Hat (Alfonso Bedoya) and battle their own mounting paranoia. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" earned John Huston Oscar wins for both Best Director and Best Screenplay, as well as a Best Supporting Actor win for Walter Huston and a Best Picture nomination.

2 of 25.

"Touch of Evil" (1958).

Written by, directed by and starring Orson Welles, "Touch of Evil" is a 1958 film noir that takes place on both sides of the USA -Mexico crossing in various border towns as police captain Hank Quinlan (Welles) and Mexican drug enforcement officer Miguel Vargas (Charlton Heston) investigate the mysterious detonation of a car bomb. Like most Welles films, a much longer cut exists, but the original release nevertheless earned near-universal critical praise, and to the shock of the director, two prizes at the 1958 Brussels World Film Festival.

3 of 25.

"The Magnificent Seven" (1960).

Boasting an all-star ensemble cast of Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter and Horst Buchholz, "The Magnificent Seven" received generally positive reviews upon its release and even more acclaim with each passing year. Set in a poverty-stricken small town in Mexico, the film (based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film "Seven Samurai) is the tale of a group of gunslingers who must band together to defend their village from bandits. Audiences enjoyed the enthralling Western, and even Kurosawa considered himself an enormous fan.

4 of 25.

"A Fistful of Dollars" (1964).

Clint Eastwood's first leading role and Sergio Leone's first "spaghetti Western," 1964's "A Fistful of Dollars" is an unofficial (and unauthorized) adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1951 film "Yojimbo" and a certified classic. Set in the fictional Mexican town of San Miguel, "A Fistful of Dollars" is also the first of three times Eastwood would play the "Man with No Name" character, as he is also the protagonist of 1965's "For a Few Dollars More" and 1966's "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."

5 of 25.

"The Professionals" (1966).

A rancher hires four men — a weapons expert, an explosives expert, an Apache scout and a wrangler — to rescue his kidnapped wife from a Mexican bandit. Directed, produced and written by Richard Brooks (and based on the 1964 novel "A Mule for the Marquesa" by Frank O'Rourke), "The Professionals" stars Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Jack Palance and Ralph Bellamy and earned three Oscar nominations: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography.

6 of 25.

"The Wild Bunch" (1969).

Walon Green, Roy and. Sickner and Sam Peckinpah (who also directed) collectively shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination for writing the 1969 Western "The Wild Bunch," which additionally received a nod for Best Original Score. Revered for its revolutionary editing techniques but criticized for its graphic violence, the shootout-filled epic starred William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Warren Oates, Ben Johnson and Jamie Sánchez as outlaws on the run from a bounty hunter (Robert Ryan) and a corrupt Mexican general (Emilio Fernández).

7 of 25.

"Up in Smoke" (1978).

Although most of Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong's first feature film, 1978's "Up in Smoke," is set in LOS Angeles, the pot-smoking duo end up getting deported to Mexico along with Cheech's relatives (who called the INS on themselves to attend a Tijuana wedding) and spend some time south of the border before unknowingly smuggling marijuana back into the states. Many critics slammed the film for its immature and crude humor, but audiences helped the box office numbers get higher than the film's stars ($44 million, to be exact), and it has since become a cult classic in the stoner genre.

8 of 25.

"El Norte" (1983).

The portion of 1983's "El Norte" that takes place in Mexico is only about one-third of the total film, but for a drama clocking in at nearly two-and-a-half hours, that's still some substantial screen time. Directed by Gregory Nava and written by Nava and Anna Thomas, "El Norte" earned a nod for Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars — the first time an independent film ever received a nomination in that category. Centering on two Guatemalan youngsters (Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando) fleeing violence in their country for a better life in America, "El Norte" carved out such an important place in history that it was added to the National Film Registry in 1995.

9 of 25.

"Three Amigos" (1986).

Critics be damned. How could you not like a screwball comedy directed by John Landis, written by Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin and Randy Newman and starring Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short? The trio star as a silent film troupe that travels to Mexico for what they think is a TV appearance but is actually a plea from the residents of a small town being terrorized by a bandit and his gang. Despite the terrible threat facing Santo Poco, "Three Amigos" is packed with plenty of laughs, numerous cameos (including Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman) and, of course, a plethora of piñatas.

10 of 25.

"El Mariachi" (1992).

Apologies to the two English language films in Robert Rodriguez's "Mexico Trilogy," but the first, 1992's "El Mariachi," is definitely the standout. Before Antonio Banderas took over the part, Carlos Gallardo played the titular character, a musician who mistakenly gets caught up with some criminals and drug lords. Despite a budget of less than $250,000 and numerous cost-cutting techniques, "El Mariachi" is an exciting and entertaining Mexican Western than earned a spot in the National Film Registry in 2011.

[Dogers69]

A a good movie to watch if you miss tijuana is "the line" its partly about zona norte and from some scenes it was filmed at least partly in zona norte. I saw it a year ago. I remember it being an ok movie. I think it was on amazon as I usually do the free amazon trial every year.

[ClamSlammer]

https://noticiasya.com/2020/05/22/pl...-memorial-day/

I'm paraphrasing here, police have set up checkpoints (Memorial Day weekend; Rosarito and Ensenada), verifying travelers intentions. They will not allow passage to tourists who do not have valid excuse. The article also states that Americans who have proof of residence will be allowed passage. And when I spoke of the "hefty fines" I clearly stated I was speculating. And of course there's no database. One time I got pulled over on LBB in Compton. I told the cop some BS story and of course he didn't buy it. He told me to get the fuck out of the area or else. I left, because if he saw me again, I believe he would have stopped me and possibly give me a citation or something. My point is the police doesn't need a database to recognize my car or face. I'm not advising anyone not to go South of the border, hell, I'm thinking of going myself. I was just sharing some intel, and now, a link to an article that verifies that my intel was correct.

Your intel was wrong. The article does not verify that your intel is correct. What the article claims, and what is really going on in real life, are two different things. I have first hand experience crossing into Rosarito 40 times since March. And I've been permitted to pass each time and NEVER been asked where I live.

And your experience with the Compton PD. You have to understand that American cops are dumbasses and routinely break the law. They are by far the group that commits the highest number of criminal acts in the USA You should have just kept quiet instead of making up lies. Anyhow, you are NEVER obligated to tell the police where you were or where you are going. You don't even have to show them your ID if you weren't driving. They can't even detain you without probable cause. And they certainly can't tell you when or where you must go. If you wish to stand on a corner where there is high drug traffic, then that is your right. They cannot force you to leave. I don't see why you were scared and left. I would have stayed and told them I'm not going anywhere. They would have:

#1 backed down and left me alone OR.

#2 arrested me for the grave criminal offense of "standing on the sidewalk" then subsequently been fired and then slapped with a multimillion dollar lawsuit for violating my 4th Amendment rights.

The public must understand that most American cops are criminals and you are under no obligation to follow their directions unless you are at a crime scene. If you're doing nothing illegal, and there is no active crime scene, you may stand where you wish on public property. Cops can't force you to leave. Nowadays, many cops have dash / body cams so they cannot break the law like they have in the past because they know they'll get fired and sued.

[VitoDerEine]

I don't believe there's been any derailment of the threads for escorts regarding the coronavirus problem. Post there if you wish. Personally, I'm still waiting for VitoDerEine's overdue report.

What's to stop you from filling up the Hong Kong thread? For that matter Adelitas, Chicago Club or the Las Chevelas threads? Tropical?

Oh yeah.

Anybody got a new report on taking up that morbidly obese street girl on Constitution? Is she even still making it in these days for those guys planning to make the last weekend in April?

I guess I could could post a few pictures from my collection of dead walkers in the photo thread.

They died a few years ago, from a big assortment of maladies.

Before the President of the United States took charge of that.

This virus has just wrecked the scene. That being said, some decency out there if you know where to look. Heard of Rosalba? Found her early morning while going for tacos at corner of Calle Primera and Av. Constitucióand. Short, dark hair with a great rack. 200 pesos with 80 for room. Give her an extra 100 and she goes full naked. She's very nice and no rush. Usually there between 9 pm and 3 am. Buy some tacos just to have an excuse to being there.

[MongerHunger]

MongerHunger.

I was considering going to Colombia after CoVid-19. I was just reporting what I saw in Youtube.

Looks like Bogota and Cartegena have 10 x number of girls in Tijuana working day and night, but quality may not be better. I am still considering if Colombia is worth going.

You should check it out. If you go all the way to Colombia then go to multiple cities. Cartagena, Bogota, Medellin and if you have time go to Cali. If you want to stay on the Caribbean coast check out Cartagena, Barranquilla and Santa Marta.

[Dogers69]

WekilledKenny.

You did not offend me or anyone. I enjoy your posts.

I was considering going to Colombia after CoVid-19. So I was searching Youtube to see the people and the scene. This guy Im_Marwah posted lots videos of mongering scenes in Colombia. He showed some very sweet-looking girls in Bogota or Cartagena, but most girls in Parque Lleras are below my hard on trigger threshold hehe. I went to Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize. The women are mostly large, obese and lumpy. Must be their diets.

I checked out flights for the year end. Flights from Tijuana to Central America via Mexico City are cheap. For about $600 I can go round trip TIJ-MEX-CARTAGENA-Bogota-MDE-MEX-TIJ. All routes are direct, no layover. The flights inside Colombia are about 1 hour apart. I can spend a couple days in Mexico City checking out the mongering scene.

Like all other mongering spots, the trip must be researched and planned out carefully or a lot of time and opportunities will be lost. It's very helpful to know a few local bros. I will contact them before I go.

Yeah latin American countries are definitely overweight compared to woman in american cities. Woman in Tijuana are in better shape than the Guatemala and Honduras chicks. In walmart today in ny, this area has no Mexican woman but its 99% latino, latin american and I'm looking at all the woman because they were up against the wall in line, outside it looked like the alley, but most were fat. I started thinking immediately about the difference in exercise calorie counting.