Ready Lane closed at Otay Mesa through Thursday

TIJUANA – The Ready Lane program at the Otay Mesa border crossing will be closed until Thursday night to allow the installation of concrete barriers, the municipal government announced. The lanes that feed into the Ready Lane program were closed starting Tuesday to allow workers to install 100 concrete barriers from the U.S. boundary with […]

April 13, 2017

Joe Corona joins U.S. U-23 team in Nashville

TIJUANA – Xolos midfielder Joe Corona is joining the U.S. U-23 team as it prepares for the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying tournament later this month. Training camp opened Wednesday in Nashville, where the 20-member team begins play on March 22 against Cuba. U-23 coach Caleb Porter selected Corona, a 21-year-old Sweetwater High alum, in mid-December. […]

April 13, 2017

Series begins on personal finance for Latinos

How to handle your personal budget is often a challenge. It's even more so for immigrants with scarce knowledge of financial practices in the United States. A week-long series of free talks and workshops is under way in Spanish to help this community learn them. The second annual series, called "Semana de Educación Financiera," began […]

April 13, 2017

‘Chapo’ Guzmán nearly nabbed in Los Cabos

TIJUANA – Mexican federal authorities were on the verge of capturing Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán in a mansion in Los Cabos three weeks ago, one day before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with President Felipe Calderón other foreign ministers at an economic meeting there, according to press reports. José Cuitlahuac Salinas, deputy attorney […]

April 13, 2017

Volunteers bring Latino film festival to life

The volunteers at the San Diego Latino Film Festival, under way through Sunday in Mission Valley, definitely have the best seat in the house to meet the stars who come to present their movies. Some have even developed friendships with them. Alexandra Maal, who is one of the seven drivers, has even shared a meal […]

April 13, 2017

Lucha libre stars from Mexico to tour U.S.

NEW YORK – Popular figures of Mexico's legendary sport of lucha libre will tour the United States starting this month in the "Masked Warriors Live" tour. They include Blue Demon Jr., Lizmark Jr., Latin Lover, Pequeño Halloween, Chavo, and Guerrero. The tour is to begin March 23 in Reno, Nevada, and then moves to California […]

April 13, 2017

Xolos dominate lackluster América

TIJUANA – Despite playing a man short most of the game, Xolos dominated storied América on Friday night, delighting the sold-out Caliente Stadium. Officially, the score was tied 1-1, but the Xolos outplayed the Aguilas, which were in second place coming into the game. After half-time, las Aguilas scored first when Christian Benitez passed to […]

April 13, 2017

Tijuana’s baseball party cut down

TIJUANA – Never mind. That's what the owners of the professional baseball team in the city of Guasave are telling Tijuana fans. Last Friday the ownership announced that they were moving the team, the Algodoneros, to Tijuana because of a lack of local revenue and dropping attendance. Six days later, the story changed. The team's […]

April 13, 2017

Jorge Hank Rhon: ‘I’m the ideal husband’

TIJUANA – Flamboyant former Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon gave a rare peek inside his house and his private life in the latest issue of a Mexican entertainment magazine. "He poses for the first time with his wife María Elvia beside him and chats frankly showing us his human side," reads the headline with the cover […]

April 13, 2017

Biggest duel of season brings América to Tijuana

TIJUANA – It's without a doubt the most expected game of the season. On Friday, the Xolos host Águilas del América, one of Mexico's storied teams. Tickets have been sold out for the Week 10 game, the first time América plays in Tijuana. The match is of vital importance to Tijuana's team, whose goal this […]

April 13, 2017

Tijuana editor among ‘Fearless Women in World’

Newsweek's story this week of the "150 Fearless Women in the World" lists the co-director of the Tijuana's crusading weekly newspaper Zeta,. "Drug cartels have threatened her life and killed her colleagues, but this journalist refuses to quit exposing their activities," the magazine said of Adela Navarro Bello. "As general director of the Tijuana-based Zeta […]

April 13, 2017

Project SOL helps migrants shine in school

SAN DIEGO.- Each year, Latin American students immigrate to the United States and face the daunting reality of learning in a system completely different than their own through a language foreign to them. That's why a pilot program was launched in 2008 with the goal of helping them to succeed. It's called Project SOL (Secondary […]

April 13, 2017

UCSD to preserve veteran activist’s Chicano collection

A collection of more than 40,000 pieces that tell the story of the Chicano movement in San Diego from 1964 to 2006 will be digitally preserved at the UC San Diego. The items were collected by Herman Baca, who grew up in National City in the 1960s and is a prominent activist and political organizer. […]

April 13, 2017

Fernández farewell concert in SD will be on May 12

SAN DIEGO.- Mexico's beloved mariachi superstar Vicente Fernández is on a farewell tour that is to bring him to the Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre on May 12. He announced last month that he would be retiring after a 45-year career, during which he recorded 70 albums that sold more than 50 million records. "I will give […]

April 13, 2017

La Familia cartel member arrested in Tijuana

TIJUANA – A member of the La Familia cartel was detained Sunday carrying five firearms he said he acquired north of the border, state police announced. The detention was the result of an operation carried out in the Colonia Buenas Aires Sur. It was the second arrest in nine days involving a member of the […]

April 13, 2017

Vázquez siblings make ‘The Show’ their own

The Vázquez siblings have looked south – really south – for inspiration for their fourth video, which was released Friday. The siblings are Angie, Abelardo and Gustavo Vázquez, from Mexicali. Their interpretation of Adele's "Rollin in the Deep" became an Internet sensation, logging 50.4 million views on YouTube since its release in November. For their […]

April 13, 2017

Xolos savor sweet victory

The Xolos virtually assured they will remain in Mexico's premier league by beating Estudiantes Tecos in Guadalajara on Friday night 2-0. The win moved Tijuana's team up several rungs in the relegation percentage table. And it momentarily placed it in second place in the league's standings, with 16 points, the result of four wins, for […]

April 13, 2017

Tijuana to get baseball team

TIJUANA – There’s good news for local baseball fans. The group that owned the Algodoneros of Guasave, in Sinaloa, had requested that the Pacific League approve the transfer of their franchise to Tijuana. On Friday, the team presidents did just that, according to the league’s website. The president of the Algodoneros, Jaime Castro Parra, was […]

April 13, 2017

Xolos and Tecos moving in opposite directions

It is considered the second most populous metropolitan area other than Mexico City. It has been called the cultural center of Mexico. It is one of North America's most business-friendly cities. It even has three professional soccer teams in Mexico's top-flight league: Chivas de Guadalajara, Atlas and Estudiantes Tecos of the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. […]

April 13, 2017

Five missing after boat capsizes off Baja coast

TIJUANA – Five men, including the Baja California's fisheries' chief, remain missing after their boat capsized during the storm that rolled through the region Tuesday. "A small motor flaw" and a large wave combined to overturn the boat, according to two fishermen who were rescued. Despite the poor weather conditions Thursday, authorities and private fishing […]

April 13, 2017