Confession offers clue to fate of missing people

Second of two parts. TIJUANA – The last place where Santiago Meza confessed to making bodies disappear in acid is similar to his other macabre workshops, located in an isolated plot of land in the city's eastern fringe. This place, in a community called Ojo de Agua, was baptized by the national and international media […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Crime cell leader ‘The Tomato’ returned to Baja

TIJUANA – A former municipal police officer and alleged drug trafficker, nicknamed "The Tomato," was re-apprehended Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros minutes after he made bail, authorities announced. The Baja California Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday that its investigators had re-apprehended Jesús Israel de la Cruz, 31, moments after he left the federal […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Leaked confession reveals ‘pozolero’s’ ghastly career

Friends and relatives of people missing left crosses in their memory in November of 2010 at a property in Ejido Ojo de Agua, where Santiago Meza Lopez confessed to having dissolved murder victims. Meza told Siedo that he first took orders from Efraín Pérez (alias as "El Efra") and afterward, starting in 2002, from Teodoro […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Ready Lane opens Tuesday at border in San Ysidro

TIJUANA – A big change begins Tuesday morning in the world's busiest land crossing. Border authorities plan to open a Ready Lane at the San Ysidro port of entry at 10 a.m. offering travelers a faster option to cross in the United States. But any change can quickly back up traffic, causing an even greater […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Crime house opens Tuesday as Boys and Girls Club

TIJUANA – Starting Tuesday, a house used by drug traffickers for security will be used by at-risk children to play and study in a bright, healthy environment. The second Boys and Girls Club is located on Ricardo Acevedo Street in colonia Camino Verde, a poor eastside neighborhood home to an estimated 40,000 people, the majority […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Xolos virtually sell out season tickets

TIJUANA— The city's professional soccer team, the Xoloitzcuintles, has virtually sold out all of its season tickets, guaranteeing a full house for the upcoming Clausura tournament. The team announced through Twitter that only a few season passes behind the players' benches at Caliente Stadium remained for sale. Meanwhile, the team announced Saturday the signing of […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:28 AM PDT

Tijuana shelter offers relief for deported

TIJUANA – On Wednesday morning, 26-year-old Rodrigo Rogero Navarro was waiting for something to happen in his life, perhaps a miracle. It was his fifth day at Casa del Migrante, a shelter for homeless immigrants, where he had landed after being deported from Tacoma, Wash. He had lived there for 22 years, working in construction, […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Suspect linked to 16 drug murders is arrested

TIJUANA – State authorities announced that a suspect in 16 drug-related murders was arrested last weekend. The man, identified as Gerardo Rodríguez Pérez, nicknamed "El Con," 31, was captured Saturday by state police investigators in Tijuana. He is being held for 30 days while authorities continue their investigations, the state Attorney General's Office announced Thursday. […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Baja chemistry whiz wins top prize

TIJUANA – On Friday, President Felipe Calderón will present Mexico's top prize for youth to a Baja California teen-ager whose academic achievements have earned him top honors worldwide. Raymundo Esquer Rodríguez, an 18-year-old from Mexicali, will receive the 2011 National Youth Prize in the academics category in Mexico City, the state's agency for youth announced […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Wozniak to speak at innovation conference

TIJUANA – The co-founder of Apple, Stephen Wozniak, who along with Steve Jobs revolutionized the consumer electronics industry, will be a keynote speaker at next year's innovation conference. The organizers of the event, led by businessman José Galicot, announced Wednesday some of the leaders that will headline the conference next October. Among them are new […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Vázquez siblings launch classic holiday tune

Just a time for the holiday season, the Mexicali siblings known as Vázquez Sounds posted a video of "All I Want For Christmas is You". By Wednesday, their song had logged 136,000 views on YouTube. The trio caused an international sensation last month on the Internet with their cover of Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Ready Lane to open in San Ysidro on Dec. 20

TIJUANA – A Ready Lane will begin operating next Tuesday at the San Ysidro border crossing, the city government announced. The program is to begin as the number of northbound crossers increases to go shopping or visit family and friends for the holidays. The Ready Lane is a binational effort since access to it begins […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Candidate takes heat for his take on tortillas

SanDiegoRed.com TIJUANA – Mexico's leading presidential candidate is again in hot water, this time for not knowing how much a kilo of tortillas costs. His response, "I'm not the lady of the house." Two reporters for the influential newspaper in Spain, El País, asked Enrique Peña Nieto general questions about life and culture in Mexico. […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Mexico’s brain drain to U.S. ‘a phenomenal loss’

TIJUANA – The brain drain and flight of human capital of Mexicans who immigrate north is the equivalent of transferring $6 billion annually to the United States, about .5 per cent of that country's GNP, said a leading researcher. Alejandro Díaz Bautista, a member of Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology and an economics […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Pope plans to visit Mexico, Cuba in March

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI personally announced Tuesday that he will travel to Mexico and Cuba in March. "It's my intention to undertake an apostolic journey before next Easter to Mexico and Cuba to proclaim the Word of Christ there," the Pope said during a bicentennial Mass marking the independence of Latin American countries […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Chula Vista district OKs new school for Eastlake

CHULA VISTA – In the middle of a financial crisis that is pummeling public education, residents of Eastlake are getting good news. The Chula Vista Elementary School District has approved building a new school in the Windingwalk neighborhood, near the Otay Ranch shopping center. The plan calls for the new school, whose projected cost is […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:27 AM PDT

Corona invited to U.S. under-23 soccer team

The U.S. under-23 soccer team has invited Joe Corona, a midfielder for the Xoloitzcuintles, to a training camp in Lakewood Ranch, Fla., to prepare for pre-Olympic matches. From Dec. 15-23, a total of 28 players will train under coach Caleb Porter, who will define his roster that will battle for a spot in next summer’s […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM PDT

Mexicali siblings sign contract with Sony Music

TIJUANA – A month after three unknown Mexicali siblings posted their musical video of Adele's hit "Rolling in the Deep" on the Internet, they have signed with Sony Music and appear to be recording in San Diego County. The video, published on Nov. 10, has nearly 12 million visits on YouTube as fans in Mexico, […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM PDT

New scandal hits Tijuana police department

TIJUANA – A new scandal is rocking the city's police department even as the legal case continues against 15 officers involved in the incident captured on video of a female suspect forced to strip for them at a substation. The new case involves a woman who filed a complaint that she was humiliated by municipal […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM PDT

3.5 tons of pot found by military near Rosarito Beach

ROSARITO BEACH – The Mexican army seized nearly 7,000 pounds of marijuana Wednesday at a beach situated about 20 minutes from the city, military authorities announced. The drug was apparently abandoned at the shore around dawn by the people who landed there when they saw Mexican soldiers. No one was detained. Mexico's National Defense Department […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:26 AM PDT