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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 Theres 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 leagues 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
Campaign uses famous faces to promote Tijuana
TIJUANA Look who's been here. That's the message of new public photographic exhibit, whose goal is to communicate that the city is safe to visit. The exhibit is made up of images of national and international figures who have visited Tijuana. They include Nobel laureates Al Gore and Mario Molina and TV personality Larry […]
April 13, 2017
U.S. suspect in double homicide captured in Baja
TIJUANA A man suspected of stabbing to death his wife and mother-in-law in Los Angeles County on Tuesday was captured a few hours later in Rosarito Beach, authorities announced. Baja California police identified him as Jonathan Scott Chacon, 23, a Los Angeles native. In a statement, state police said that Chacon is suspected of […]
April 13, 2017
8 tons of drugs destroyed in Tijuana
TIJUANA Authorities incinerated Wednesday afternoon more than 8 tons of illegal drugs at a military facility in the citys south side. The drugs had been seized in various operations, said Fermín Gómez, the local representative of Mexicos Attorney Generals Office. The drugs that were incinerated before the news media were 16,652 pounds of marijuana, […]
April 13, 2017
Xolos players on U.S. team to play against Mexico
TIJUANA Two Xolos players will play on the United States' U-23 team in a friendly match against Mexico's squad Wednesday night in Texas. The two, who are Mexican-Americans, have been preparing with the rest of the U.S. squad for the games in March to qualify for the Summer Olympics in London. Regardless of the […]
April 13, 2017
Snow temporarily closes mountain road near Tecate
TIJUANA After the heaviest snowstorm of the season, a stretch of La Rumorosa, a curving mountain road about 70 miles east of the city, was reopened around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, state authorities announced. The highway was closed Monday night at 9, said Alfredo Escobedo, the director of the states Civil Protection agency. He spent […]
April 13, 2017
Big gym opens to entice ‘familias’ to get moving
Joe Ochoa believes in the power of exercise. And he knows personally all those great and small things that can derail a Latino family from exercising regularly. He's determined to do his part to make exercise a habit, not just a once-in-a-while event. Ochoa has opened Family Gym, a 40,000-square-foot facility that offers affordable rates, […]
April 13, 2017
Library to offer recordings of Baja’s cultures
TIJUANA A place is taking shape where you can hear Baja California's history. For ten months, a researcher has been gathering recordings that capture and preserve the stories of the state's indigenous communities and the waves of people who settled in the state. There's a recording of a grandmother who still speaks a native […]
April 13, 2017
