Welcome to 2018,” read the threatening and neatly penned message left early this month with the bodies of a man and woman gunned down in the outlying Tijuana development of Villa del Alamo.
“The plaza is not Sinaloa’s, it belongs to Nueva Generación.”
After spiking to unprecedented levels last year, the bloodshed in Tijuana has continued at an unrelenting pace in these first days of the new year as two powerful drug trafficking organizations battle for control of the city’s lucrative street drug sales: The long-established Sinaloa cartel and a newer, aggressive group known as the cartel Nueva Generación Jalisco, often abbreviated as CJNG.
As homicides soared to unprecedented levels across Mexico in 2017, Tijuana registered one of the steepest increases in the country.
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I think Tijuana is what is commonly known as a "Shithole".
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