The Toronto Star has begun an eight-part series on the Mexican drug cartels, involving its reach both south and north of the border, and in the second installment Linda Diebel focuses on the violence-plagued Tijuana on the border with San Diego, CA:
Tijuana could be the poster city for life and death in Narcoland. It's a raw, savage city, where cartels revel in cruelty, the more macabre the better. Living here must be like being trapped in a slaughterhouse where anybody – man, woman, child – could be slung up on hooks at any moment.
Some are offering ominous warning about the future: "Victor Clark Alfaro, a Tijuana-based anthropologist, says: 'It's unfortunate, but I would say organized crime is getting worse.'"
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