• Guns aren’t the only cause of violent deaths. But neither do more guns mean less violent crimes.

    por José Luis Sánchez |
    Columnista de San Diego Red

    Sounds logical, doesn’t? And it’s true. Violent crime may not be all caused by guns, but the fact that the U.S. boasts both the highest gun ownership rate in the world but it doesn't have the lowest violent crime rates in the world should be enough to end the idea that more guns are the solution.

    Weak institutions are a cause of violence, not a lack of guns, just as violent crime mostly is a result of other factors (although, my argument is that they make matters much worse) if Mexico’s own history says anything about this. Half of our...

    José Luis Sánchez

  • The Hope of a Generation, for Four More Years

    por José Luis Sánchez |
    Columnista de San Diego Red

    Today is the big day, and I would like to say something to all my friends, family and readers that have the privilege of voting in the 2012 Presidential Election, either for the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama, or the his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney.

    First of all vote, you must. For the past year or more, many states and forces (mostly from the Republican party) have wanted Americans to think of voting as a privilege and not a right, by springing all kinds of obstacles against early voting, minorities, old and young. We aren’t...

    José Luis Sánchez

  • A Hangover in Tijuana. Missed opportunities and “image” problems

    por José Luis Sánchez |
    Columnista de San Diego Red

    For several days now, there has been an image going around on social media of what looks to be a set for the upcoming, Hangover 3 movie , a sequel to its successful first installment (and not that critically acclaimed second one), which has promised to include Tijuana, our city plagued with violence, success, progress, creativity and setbacks, all at the same time. In other words, nuance is our only friend.

    The set appears to replicate Tijuana in the city of Nogales. Or at least, it intends to double for the myth about what Tijuana is...

    José Luis Sánchez

  • ¿Hangover 3 en Tijuana? Oportunidades desperdiciadas, por miedo a la “imagen”

    por José Luis Sánchez |
    Columnista de San Diego Red

    Desde hace unos días, ha circulado por las redes sociales una fotografía de lo que parece ser un set para la parte tres de la famosa franquicia The Hangover, sobre las aventuras “locas” (por no decir otra cosa) de tres (y medio) amigos en ciudades como Las Vegas y Bangkok. Ahora en Tijuana.

    El set, es uno que aparenta simular a Tijuana en la ciudad de Nogales, Sonora. O por lo menos, replicar el mito que se tiene de Tijuana parecido al episodio de Los Simpsons de 1992, “Kamp Krusty”.

    Antes que nada, hay que aclarar algo. No sabe...

    José Luis Sánchez