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Thinking about visiting Tijuana? Probably not

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http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/g00 ... t12aH-2gp2

Tijuana, Mexico, just across the border from San Diego
population: 1.8 million
2017 homicides--1744 (2016 was previous record with 910 homicides)
Close to 90 percent of the victims are low-level operatives in the local drug trade, they say...

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...

Tijuana, with some 1.8 million residents, has long been key to drug trafficking organizations vying for control of a critical route for smuggling marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine to the United States, the world’s largest consumer of illicit drugs.
For Mexico, Tijuana has a robust economy; and many people there are doing well economically. I would not visit there at this time because of the current open war between the drug trafficking groups.
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