Tijuana, Mexico News Archives

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

During a visit to San Diego in April, Pratik and Priti Chavda thought they'd slip over the border into Tijuana just to do a little shopping, have a quick meal and say they had made it to Mexico.

Authorities say a woman's body was found buried headfirst in a plastic container of cement in drug-plagued Tijuana.

MEXICO CITY: Mexican soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said.

Mexican Military Finds Possible Smuggling Tunnel in Tijuana About 100 Feet South of U.S. Border TIJUANA, Mexico October 28, 2009 The DEA raids suspected drug traffickers of Mexico's La Familia cartel.

Rosarito city police pull over cars to be searched at the entrance to the city after a running gunfight between police in Tijuana and suspected members of organized crime.

Deputy Coroner Sergeant Charles Lucas says the incident occurred Friday night. Lucas says Olagario Maraz from Tijuana, Mexico was riding a Quad near Gordon's Well.

Men kidnapped from their homes in broad daylight. Bodies dumped along roadsides and in abandoned cars.

Three once-powerful members of Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

Police raid on service shows that churches are no longer neutral observers. Jeremy Weber posted 10/21/2009 09:58AM T he bold interruption of a Sunday Mass to arrest a drug lord in August illustrated just how desperate Mexico's war on drugs has become - and how religion is no longer a neutral observer.

Veteran Latin Jazz Pianist is collaborating with Percussionist Javier Cabanillas in a new project being presented at El Dragon Bar in Tijuana Mexico.

Police in this northern Mexican border city found a man's nude, mutilated body hung by the neck from an expressway overpass Saturday, the second such grisly discovery in nine days.

Police in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have found a man's nude, mutilated body hanging from the neck from an expressway overpass, the second such grisly discovery there this month.

Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel was near the height of its power in March 2000 when one of its top men, Jesus "Chuy" Labra, was arrested watching his son's soccer game at a school in Tijuana.

California Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law SB 167, a bill authored by Senator Denise Ducheny and sponsored by the environmental nonprofit WiLDCOAST, to reduce the impacts associated with waste tires along the California-Mexico border.

Federal funding for southern border states intended to stem the tide of gun running into Mexico might not pour into New Mexico as quickly as hoped.

A new cross-border collaboration is in the works to keep tourists safe in Baja California.

The mutilated body of a man has been found hanging from a bridge in the Mexican border city of Tijuana.

La Orquesta de Baja California joined forces with Nortec Collective artists Bostich and Fussible on Sunday for a free concert in the plaza outside Tijuana's cultural center .

A man once considered a top figure in a notorious Mexican drug cartel plans to plead guilty in a San Diego criminal case, nearly 10 years after he was arrested while watching his son's soccer game in Tijuana, Mexico.

Ikegami Mold de Mxico is eager to increase its business south of the U.S.-Mexico border.

City officials in Mexico's Baja California state are drafting plans for a bilingual police force that caters to American tourists headed south of the border.The plan, announced Monday at San Diego City Hall, is to create a joint Mexican force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor from Tijuana through Playas de Rosarito to Ensenada.

An alleged sex offender on the lam from California since 2007 was captured by Baja California state police early Wednesday morning, September 30, in front of Parque de la Amistad in Tijuanaa s Mesa de Otay neighborhood.

Entijuanarte is expected to attract as many as 50,000 people to the Centro Cultural this weekend.

TIJUANA a ' Three municipal police officers were shot to death Wednesday night and two others were wounded in the latest attack on officers by suspected organized crime members.