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A Cop-Cartel Heist and Sky High Homicide Rates: What the Hell is Going on in Tijuana

2024/1/16
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Sean Williams和Danny Gold:2023年11月中旬,蒂华纳发生一起警察盗窃毒品事件,引发了比该市近年来遭受的更严重的暴力事件。事件起因是当地和州警察从贩毒集团手中盗窃了大量毒品,卡特尔迅速展开报复,对警察和政府部门发动袭击,造成多人死亡。这起事件凸显了蒂华纳长期存在的毒品、枪支和人口贩卖等犯罪活动,以及警察的腐败问题。蒂华纳的地理位置使其成为毒品走私和人口贩卖的中心,美国媒体对蒂华纳的报道往往只关注单方面的情况。 Sean Williams和Danny Gold:蒂华纳的现代毒品贸易历史悠久,可以追溯到20世纪60年代。蒂华纳卡特尔与其他贩毒集团的兴衰更迭,以及权力斗争,导致该市的安全状况波动很大。美国禁毒政策促使墨西哥成为重要的鸦片供应国,墨西哥的毒品贸易从手工生产发展成为大型产业。20世纪初期,蒂华纳因其赌博、夜生活和放松管制的环境而吸引了大量美国游客,成为一个著名的旅游胜地。蒂华纳的性产业历史悠久,与美国海军和军事人员有关,并受到政府的默许。近年来,芬太尼成为蒂华纳卡特尔的主要毒品,其贩运对美国的影响巨大,卡特尔利用吸毒者进行芬太尼剂量测试。2022年8月12日,哈利斯科新一代卡特尔在蒂华纳制造了大规模的暴力事件,瘫痪了城市并关闭了边境。这起事件引发了对墨西哥政府和卡特尔之间权力斗争的讨论,蒂华纳市长蒙特塞拉特·卡瓦列罗因安全原因搬到了军事基地。蒂华纳的暴力和犯罪活动持续不断,阿雷亚诺·费利克斯家族成员失踪,墨西哥记者经常成为暴力犯罪的受害者。

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A team of cops in Tijuana steal a large shipment of drugs from the Sinaloa Cartel, leading to immediate reprisals and a continuous wave of violence, including targeted killings of police officers.

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When a team of cops drove a truck laden with Sinaloa Cartel product out of a Tijuana warehouse in November, experts predicted violence even worse than the city had suffered in recent years, as roiling fentanyl and meth industries had made it Mexico’s most dangerous city by far.

The reprisals began just hours later—and they still haven’t stopped. Now, with bodies piling, sex and people trafficking at all-time highs and the golden days of prohibition racetracks a more-than-distant memory, what on earth can be done to quell the killing? With Tijuana’s mayor holed up in an army barracks, perhaps not a lot.

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