Saturday January 10th, 2009 to Thursday 22nd January,2009 “What the hell are you going there for ?”, “You must be mad”, “Be very careful”, just three of the things that were said to me when I spoke of my intention to journey one hundred and thirty miles to the south to spend a Saturday night in the border crossing town of Tijuana, Mexico. With 858 deaths by the bullet in 2008 and seven on the Wednesday prior to my departure the people who made those remarks probably had a valid point but I answered the first question with the perfectly truthful retort of “for a bit of an adventure” thinking the chances of me becoming just another numberical statistic at the hands of the Arellano family run Tijuana Cartel to be pretty remote. The TJ Cartel,
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