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I feel sad and angry, my city is becoming the dump it was on 2008 thanks to all the drug dealers killings. Some context: 2008 was a really bad year for Tijuana, not only the economic crisis that affected us for being border town with San Diego, but also the fight between two narcs bands than wanted to control the market in Tijuana. It was really bloody, with civilians getting killed as "collateral" damage.
Today they tried to kill a guy in on of the "nice" avenues of Tijuana, so later I took the taxi (taxis here are for multiple passengers, since they have a set route, like buses in the USA) to get home, and this guy that is sitting next to me starts talking on his cell phone like nothing about selling cocaine, and then about killing guys, then about the guy that they tried to kill, that it was one of his suppliers, about the new war for the local market in Tijuana, then going about how anyone in the taxi is a pussy, that no one can do a thing to stop him, that people complain about this stuff but no one really wants to do something to stop them, that he knows someone could come any minute and start shooting at the taxi to kill him, and that he just does not care. Fuck all this, my city is becoming a shit hole again thanks to the corruption on all levels of government, the local consumption o drugs and the lack of legalization/ decriminalization as a first step to try and stop this stupid drug war.
And all this at a moment were the city is flourishing thanks to tourism.
Sorry, I just wanted to say this.
Stay safe, friend. Sounds horrifying.