I have been to Tijuana, and frankly, I don’t see a reason to go there again. But kids, being bulletproof and looking for a good time, are still going. Some don’t make it back:
The victims, ages 19 to 23 years old, were found tied up on Saturday, but their deaths were not reported earlier because they were under investigation, said Fermin Gomez, an assistant state prosecutor in Baja California.
U.S. consular officials in Tijuana said the victims — two men and two women from the San Diego and Chula Vista areas — were U.S. citizens. The state attorney general’s office in Baja California said one of the women was Mexican.
Their deaths are the latest in a string of violence in Tijuana that authorities blame on a bloody turf war between drug cartels.
It seems to be a sound explanation, but I wonder if it isn’t being used as a catch-all for crime south of the border. These don’t sound like kids involved in the drug war down there. They were down there clubbing. Why would a drug cartel take the time to tie them up, strangle them and stab them four kids from the United States?
I’m not a member of the FBI’s Behavior Science Unit, but this doesn’t compute for me. Perhaps you can educate me in the comments section.
Either way, now is not the time to look south of San Diego and think, “That sounds pretty good. Let’s go to TJ.”
