A wave of homicides overwhelms Tijuana. SD Union Tribune
August 31,2017 7:31 pm.
"Aug. 26-- Tijuana, Mexico-By the time the Red Cross ambulance pulled into a crowded apartment complex known as Torres del Lago, the man lying face down on a dirt lot was already dead.
Such scenes have been playing out largely in Tijuana's vast working-class neighborhoods in recent months as the violence rises to record levels. So far this year, there have been more than 1,025 victims, according to the Baja California Attorney General's Office, many of them believed to be connected in some way to the neighborhood drug trade.
The sum surpasses last year's total of 910, which had set a record for this city of some 1. 8 million residents. During just one week in August, 48 people lost their lives in homicides, nearly the same total of homicide victims in the city of San Diego all of last year.
The flood of victims has overwhelmed homicide investigators, leaving nearly 9 out of 10 crimes unsolved. The state medical examiner's office is struggling with too little space and too few staff as the bodies don't stop arriving and often linger for too long. The city's Red Cross, which responds to 98 percent of Tijuana's ambulance calls, has handled twice as many shootings as last year. In many cases, the victims are already dead by the time the ambulance arrives.
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Looks like the tourist areas are still safe but the "vast working-class neighborhoods" of Tijuana are the danger zones to avoid.
Police Closed Calle Primara between Constitucion and Reveoucion
While at Caesar's today one could hear many police rushing toward the arch. They police barricaded Calle Primara between Constitucion adn Revolucion with police tape. It appears as though a bar on the North side of the street and more toward Revolucion was the problem. After a quick walk of the zona and returning toward the hotel, white unmarked vans with sirens / lights were headed toward the area. Perhaps it's Tijuana's version of CSI.
7. 1 Earth Quake Mexico City, Puebla
230 dead so far. Lots of destruction done to this poor country.
There has been a series of quakes along the Pacific coast in the last few months.
The big one may happen any time, anywhere on San Andreas fault, along most of California length from San Francisco, through LA, down to Salton Sea, severing Southern California from Mexico and La Zona Norte:
[URL]http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-earthquake-20170920-story.html[/URL]#nws=mcnewsletter.
Is it safe to travel to Tijuana alone?
Re Dinotrex.
Take taxi from the border to HK or Adelita on the nice, clean, well-lighted and guarded Calle Coahuila. Stay around the bar block and the Callejon Coahuila (the alley behind HK and hotel Cascada). There are plenty of bars' security guards, meseros and touts hanging out day and night with video cameras. So that area is mostly safe from crime.
Any time, anywhere in Tijuana, only go where there are plenty of people. Don't walk into small alleys by yourself day or night. Walk near curbs or on the streets away from hiding places. Avoid talking to strangers who approach you on the streets. They may be selling drugs, and may set you up, or draw attention from policia. Don't take anyone's suggestion to [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord134][CodeWord134][/url] in public places, as their conniving policia friends would quickly zoom in on their bikes while your pants is still down and shake you down for illegal urination. If being searched by policia, hold all your cash and wallet in your hands so they cannot steal from you.
I had cash, wallets and other valuables outside safes in hotel Cascada with HK and street girls' companies all night and nothing has been stolen in all those years. One time I gave the wrong bills to a pretty street girls. 2 hours later, just to find out how she honestly would act, I demanded my change back. She quickly gave me back 200 pesos in excess. Just try that in other countries and see what happens hehe. She was very pretty and sexy. I posted her pics a few times.
You would be plenty safe in Tijuana if you act with cautions as if you were in downtown LOS Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Washington DC. Tijuana has lots of uniformed, auxiliary and plain clothed policia patrolling La Zona Norte. If in trouble just yell " Ayuda,! Ayuda! Rateros!" and do fight back. Just beat the shit out of any rateros.
Just don't go to any outdoor country music concert in Tijuana or any where in the US. Hehe.
