The Tijuana Cartel is based in one of the most strategically important border towns in Mexico, and continues to export drugs even after being weakened from a brutal internal war during 2009.
Due to infighting, arrests and deaths of some of its top members, the Tijuana Cartel is a shell of what it was in the 1990s and early 2000s when it was considered one of the most potent and violent criminal organizations in Mexico. After the arrest or assassination of its founding members, the Arellano Felix clan, the cartel is now headed by Fernando Sanchez Arellano, a nephew of the Arellano Felix brothers who once bloodied Mexico and southern California with their brutish and authoritarian style. With the powerful Sinaloa Cartel moving into Tijuana in force, Sanchez Arellano is struggling to keep a grip on this lucrative drug and human trafficking corridor.
by Dancing with Fire July 2, 2011
Get the Tijuana Cartel mug.Located in Mexico, right next to the border to the US, it is the single most visited border city in the world. Also, it's not as shitty as those cheap, stereotyping American films would have you believe (read: it's not composed of a bunch of dodgy bars and whorehouses and a tiny police office).
Rather than have a long central vein and then nothing around it, as another poster described, it is a diverse, large city; and like every other city of its size, it has its good and bad neighbourhoods.
Sure there are parts of the city where crime is high as fuck and the conditions are practically unfit for human life, but hey, Mexico is considered a third-world country for a reason. Besides, there are also the "nicer" neighbourhoods, which pretty much look like a first-world suburb (and no, it's not just the narcos that live there).
I'm not surprised the other posters are entirely unfamiliar with that last part of the city, as they probably only visit or know of the first one; which is, sadly, the one that draws the tourists in.
Rather than have a long central vein and then nothing around it, as another poster described, it is a diverse, large city; and like every other city of its size, it has its good and bad neighbourhoods.
Sure there are parts of the city where crime is high as fuck and the conditions are practically unfit for human life, but hey, Mexico is considered a third-world country for a reason. Besides, there are also the "nicer" neighbourhoods, which pretty much look like a first-world suburb (and no, it's not just the narcos that live there).
I'm not surprised the other posters are entirely unfamiliar with that last part of the city, as they probably only visit or know of the first one; which is, sadly, the one that draws the tourists in.
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Get the Tijuana Tummy Tickler mug.A drinking event at a party that usually involves group effort (preferably 10+ people) . The person getting a Tijuana Car wash is referred to as “the Car” . It starts by one person(the car) laying on a long table. Two volunteers hold onto a arm on opposite sides of the table dragging “the car” across on his/her back. While the rest of the party stand on each side of the table pouring drinks & shoving snacks into “the car” mouth while they are being dragged across the table on their back. When “the car” reaches the end of the table they are greeted by the biggest breast woman at the party who will then pour tequila into his/her mouth then shove a lime down “the cars” mouth.
Person 1: WHO WANTS TO DO A TIJUANA CAR WASH?!
Person 2: I’ll be the car!
*person 2 is then thrown on his back on a table while the party preforms a tijuana car wash*
Person 2: I’ll be the car!
*person 2 is then thrown on his back on a table while the party preforms a tijuana car wash*
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