Posted on 08/13/2022 12:25:16 PM PDT by dynachrome
Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to Ciudad Juarez Friday while violence sparked in the border town near Texas may be linked to a series of incidents in Tijuana and the surrounding area.
The situation began in Ciudad Juarez with a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels, which caused a riot and shootouts that left 11 people dead, most of them civilians, authorities said.
The violence then apparently moved west. The U.S. Consulate in Tijuana warned American citizens late Friday to avoid the area, while acknowledging that officials are “aware of reports of multiple vehicle fires, roadblocks, and heavy police activity in Tijuana, Mexicali, Rosarito, Ensenada and Tecate.
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Ensenada was once a very nice little town. I spent a lot of time there as a boy; my best friend’s family had a house on the top of the hill overlooking Todos Santos Bay.
With yellow snow?
When I was in the Air Force stationed at Edwards AFB California it was an Article 15 if any of us went to TJ. Reason was that due to our haircuts, some military personnel were getting killed as they were suspected of being DEA agents. This was in the late 80s.
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