Tijuana
Nuclear Hijacking Is More Common Than You Think
Last Monday morning, in a town north of Mexico City, six truck-jacking bandits accidentally stole pellets of cobalt-60—a highly dangerous radioactive material used for cancer treatment.
The Whore On the Floor
In a brothel in the back of a Tijuana bar I find a room with a checkerboard floor and dead-center double-bed that looks like it was designed by Stanley Kubrick. The whore standing outside of it smiles at me. “You want pussy?”
Deportee Purgatory
A camera crew from VICE Mexico recently went to El Bordo, a makeshift shantytown near Tijuana where many Mexican immigrants deported from the US have gathered in hopes of finding temporary refuge.
Deportee Purgatory
About 40 percent of Mexican immigrants deported from the US are sent back through Tijuana. Many of the deported border crossers have established a makeshift shantytown inside a dry, concrete riverbed where the Tijuana River once flowed—called 'El Bordo.'
Premiere: María y José - "Club Negro" (Official Video)
Check out this dark hip-hop video coming from Tijuana.
Voces del Underground Mexicano: San Pedro El Cortez de Tijuana
“La gente hace cosas por el amor a la música y al arte. Es un gran rato, pero lo tenemos que hacer–todos juntos.”
Blacking Out Is the Other Universal Language
People have been going on vacations to make bad decisions since antiquity, and that’s not going to change. So in the spirit of broadening our horizons, we’ve asked our international offices to dig up the strangest, booziest stories of vacations gone...
La Frontera
I’m at the busiest land border in the world. I get across quickly because I’m headed in the right direction, which is to say the wrong direction. I’m going where no one wants to stay.
And About the Other Drugs
Tourism can take some strange turns. Every year an estimated 40 million people cross over into Tijuana to buy drugs: the pharmacy kind. That's right.
Bienvenidos a Tijuana!
We have a saying here, south of the border, that we like to recite while looking toward the sky, with a dramatic voice straight out of a telenovela: Oh, Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.