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It's mid-November, 2023, and a half dozen local and state cops are hanging out together in the Mexican city, Tijuana, Baja California.

This is no boozey social. Crispy creams are optional at best. The boys

in Blur instead putting the final touches on a mad plan to steal a huge shipment of

drugs from a warehouse. Right under the the noses the city's most dangerous cartel

members soon after the meeting the cops put their hair brain plan into action they

drive a pickup onto the building load its flatbed with plastic wrapped

bales of cocaine, and drive right out the front entrance. It could have been lifted right from the pages

of Hollywood script. Only thing is, the cops haven't been so subtle

about their heist, and narcos aren't exactly known for their mercy. Less so the

wing of the Siniloa cartel controlled by Ismao Amayo Zambada, one of the world's

most feared drug lords, and who apparently owns the gear.

He and others like him have made Tijuana, which borders the US city of San Diego, Mexico's most violent city by far,

home to a gigantic, roiling underworld of drugs, guns and people trafficking. Its murder rate is twice that of second-rank Ciudah Reyes,

and a city's charismatic mayor has even been moved to a military barracks

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