Tijuana's many, many sides

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🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Tijuana is often characterized by a one-dimensional narrative in both Mexico and the U.S. But the metropolis has many sides that rarely get discussed.

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? It's Gustavo Ariano. And today on the Times, Border City, Chapter 4.
0:07.0	In this installment of the podcast from our sister paper, the San Diego Union Tribune,
0:11.3	longtime border reporter Sandra Dibble talks about what it was like to cover the assassination
0:15.6	of a police chief in Tijuana and the arrest of a powerful narco. She also moonlights as an
0:20.5	opera singer in Tijuana,
0:22.0	puts on a concert for friends from both sides of the border,
0:24.7	and navigates living a binaural life after 9-11,
0:28.2	which changed the flow of traffic from one side of the border to the other.
0:33.5	Enjoy.
0:45.9	Music. Enjoy. One Sunday morning in February 2000, my guitarist friend Paco and I decided to ride our bikes
0:51.7	across the border to San Diego. It was a perfect winter day, with temperatures in the 50s, and it was peaceful.
0:59.5	Even the major avenues were free of traffic.
1:02.6	I was pulling on my black spandex riding shorts when my phone rang.
1:08.2	Tijuana's police chief had been shot dead.
1:14.6	Tijuana's chief of police made his last visit to headquarters in a casket, just a few days after Mexico's president announced he would get tough with the drug lords.
1:20.7	The criminals got tough first.
1:24.8	Alfredo de la Torre was the second police chief to be assassinated since I moved to Tijuana six years ago.
1:31.3	He was gunned down just two miles from my apartment.
1:34.9	He wasn't just an anonymous victim in another news story.
1:38.6	He was someone I knew.
1:42.9	I'm Sandra Dibble, and this is episode four of Border City, a podcast from the San Diego Union Tribune.
1:51.2	It's about Tijuana, a city known for violence, drugs, and migration into the United States.
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