Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"…the sun was still shining in the west, toward Tijuana."

"One morning they went to Tijuana, to the German consulate."

"…'I don’t think he remembers his mom. She was from Tijuana."

"His mom was from Tijuana, but she died when he was little."

"… the drug gangs ran kidnapping rings that snared doctors and schoolteachers and the children of the Tijuana rich, and they tortured their enemies and tossed their bodies onto highways with notes attached and severed fingers stuffed into their mouths."

"She did have the money in the plastic bag, and briefly considered buying a bus ticket to the border: she had enough for a ticket to Tijuana, and for a torta and taco once she got there, but not enough to go any farther."

"Octavio Covarrubias was a Proceso subscriber, receiving the Mexican investigative magazine by mail from Tijuana every week."

"The door opened to a vortex of weeping Spanish souls that drained into Tijuana and Mexicali and other forsaken places."

"Marya, Buzz’s Latvian girlfriend, would come into the Foreign Club, down in Tijuana late at night, and she’d have some greaser on her arm, prepared to pay."

"Sometime in the late seventies, after my father’s disease had been diagnosed, I drove with the kids down the coast to San Diego and across the border into Tijuana."

"…he was stalled in the garbage dump in Tijuana, stalled at the wire, and America was sick with the gastro and he didn’t have a cent in the world after the cholos and the coyotes had got done with him."

"to lose himself in the North, but the coyote was a fool and the U.S. Immigration caught him before he’d gone a hundred yards and pitched him back into the dark fastness of the Tijuana night."

"…a tall pale man made taller by the slope, speaking the border Spanish of the back alleys and cantinas of Tijuana."

"…her suffering was nothing compared to the tribulations of the saints or the people living in the streets of Mexico City and Tijuana, crippled and abandoned by God and man alike."

"while the puke-green buses from the Immigration pulled up to the curb to take them one-way to Tijuana, the doors locked, the windows barred"

"After Tepoztlán, Cuernavaca even, after the Tijuana dump and Venice and the leafy dolorous hell of the canyon, this was a vision of paradise."

"She’d been watching two girls in jeans and heels… and suddenly the wind shifted and she thought she was back in the dump at Tijuana."

"She’d had a breakdown then, like nothing he’d ever seen—even on the streets of Tijuana, even in the worst and lowest places."

"…stale air in the bus on the ride from Cuernavaca to Tijuana and the smell of the dump…"

"…what a joke that was—he was no closer to realizing his dream now than he was at the Tijuana dump."

"‘My mom was born in Tijuana. She told me I could wave at the border today.’"

"Salomón’s brother Pedro had brought three large boxes’ worth of assorted handheld pyrotechnics from Tijuana, and the children were playing with them..."