Rosarito Beach and Mexico’s drug war
Rosarito Beach and Mexico’s drug war
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The music thumps, the lights flash, the shot glasses wait for willing lips. But the bouncers are reduced to kicking at the curb, hoping somebody, anybody, will round the corner. Friday nights are slow lately in Rosarito Beach’s party zone, and everyone knows the drug war is to blame.
Hundreds of corpses discovered in and near Tijuana. Some of them headless, others dissolved in barrels of lye. People hear that, and they stay away.
It may not be surprising to hear that as bodies accumulate in Tijuana (843 homicides in 2008, compared with 376 in the much larger city of Los Angeles), Rosarito Beach’s hotel occupancy rates spiral downward. On Feb. 20, the U.S. State Department issued a 12-paragraph “alert” on the perils of travel in Mexico, especially near the border.
Most of Baja’s drug-war deaths have been registered in Tijuana, about 12 miles north of Rosarito. And perhaps the most notorious case — the January arrest of a suspected cartel associate who authorities say has laid claim to dissolving 300 bodies in vats of lye — took place near Ensenada, about 50 miles to the south. A 2007 spate of armed robberies and carjackings against Americans played out along the same geographical lines. But Rosarito has seen plenty of its own trouble too.
In February 2008, Daniel LaPorte, 27, of San Diego and a 28-year-old woman named Libey (also known as Libe) Craig, of La Mesa, Calif., were killed in an apparent soured drug deal that also left three Mexican nationals dead on the outskirts of Rosarito Beach. Authorities said all of the dead had drug-related arrest records except LaPorte, a suspected marijuana smuggler whose remains were found in a barrel of chemicals.
Since September, at least eight Rosarito Beach police officers have been killed, more than two dozen have resigned, and the town’s main street, Benito Juarez Boulevard, has been the scene of at least two shootings. In one, a drive-by assailant shot and killed a 15-year-old boy and three others in a pet store.
Click Here for Cocaine Trafficking in Latin America
Click Here for Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
Click Here for Drug Lord: The Life & Death of a Mexican Kingpin
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Michael Porfirio Mason
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09/03/2009 at 10:38 pm Permalink
So many places to visit, so little time. Why gamble on a barrel of lye? Best roll with a posse if you plan to visit TJ I guess.
10/03/2009 at 11:42 am Permalink
i’m not sure the “posse” would help
there are better places for both work and vacationing
12/03/2009 at 6:52 am Permalink
I am going to join the war, equipped with a Barrett “Light Fifty” .50 cal sniper rifle, Cheytac m200 .408 calibre sniper rifle, and m4 assault rifle, and LWRC IAR (infantry assault rifle), and H&K 416 assault rifle, plenty lasers from wicked lasers, night vision goggles, silencers, police scanners, memory sticks.
Think Collateral + Traffic + Jason Bourne.