HISTORICAL FACTS: 9 | History Defined

State Department tells US citizens in Tijuana to take shelter amid explosion of gang violence

“US government employees have been instructed to shelter in place until further notice,” consulate says

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022

Mexico cartel violence leaves several dead and property destroyed after week of fighting

Cartels appear to be targeting stores, vehicles and bystanders in response to disputes or attempts to capture members by Mexican authorities.

ABC News · Aug 14, 2022

Mexico flies troops to busiest US border city after gang attacks

Hundreds of Mexican military troops were flown into Tijuana on Saturday to beef up street patrols after armed gangs hijacked and burned at least a dozen vehicles in the border city, the latest in a wave of attacks hitting civilians across the country.

Tribune News Service · Aug 14, 2022

As California welcomes Ukrainian refugees, counties fall short on interpreters

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After the Russian invasion, Katie Nelha and her husband couldn’t safely return to their home in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, so they took their chances as refugees. Flying from Poland, where they were working, to Mexico in early April, they crossed into the U.S. at Tijuana, where they were…

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

Supreme Court rules 'Remain in Mexico' can end. Now asylum seekers wait in Tijuana to see if it really will

TIJUANA, Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration can end the "Remain in Mexico" program, but life does not appear likely to change much for asylum seekers waiting in Tijuana for their U.S. immigration court cases — at least for the near future.

Tribune News Service · Jul 1, 2022

For Haitian migrants, waiting in Tijuana brings fear, discrimination, even death

TIJUANA, Mexico — In the last phone conversation that Pethou Archange had with her younger brother, he told her that he had a surprise for her birthday.

Tribune News Service · Jun 22, 2022

FBI hunt man fleeing Mexico after girlfriend’s body found in trunk

US man with more than a dozen aliases is on the run after girlfriend’s decomposing body found in Tijuana area

The Independent UK · Jun 21, 2022

With Netflix’s ‘Chosen One’ crash, Tijuana loses two pillars of its arts scene

MEXICO CITY — Raymundo Garduño Cruz was an actor, director, producer and baseball fanatic who often placed bets on games between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 20, 2022

Carlos Santana keeps his music-legend persona at arm's length: 'I don't even look at that guy!' he says

There is one person Carlos Santana is careful to keep out of his home, and it's ... Carlos Santana. Or, more precisely, it's the famous Carlos Santana who you won't find a hint of in the home he shares with his wife and band mate, drum dynamo Cindy Blackman Santana.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2022

Carlos Santana plans benefit concerts in Tijuana: 'I want to give people a better opportunity for life'

SAN DIEGO — Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Carlos Santana is poised to return to Tijuana, the Mexican border city where he grew up and honed his guitar chops in nightclubs as a teenager before moving to San Francisco in the mid-1960s.

Tribune News Service · Jun 17, 2022