How to pronounce“tijuana”in English

And Tijuana is a-- especially when I moved there in '84-'85.

But Tijuana was not-- it was a mix.

I was born in Tijuana, so-- Woo!

But in Tijuana, the music school wasn't really that developed yet.

I was always in Tijuana thinking about Mexico.

Broken Espanol in Tijuana is the best thing in the world.

They still live between Tijuana and San Diego.

San Diego and Tijuana now share an airport terminal.

And then when I moved to Tijuana-- woo!

are the Chinese traffickers in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico City.

And coming from being in Tijuana, talking to veterans, they're the same conversations.

We were shepherded through the border into Tijuana.

I wasn't born in Tijuana.

But they finally settled in Tijuana.

So I actually grew up in Tijuana.

Some of them go to school in Tijuana and live in Tijuana.

And I'm not from the Tijuana, but I live in Esenada.

into Mexico to build houses to Tijuana and had very much the same feeling, standing on both sides of that wall seeing what was written on one side versus nothing on the American

from Vancouver Canada down to Tijuana Mexico to give those little jars and

And that was an example of-- we were in Tijuana.

And his eldest brother drowns on the trip back through Tijuana.

They'd have their kid and go back to Tijuana.

Like I can tell you that nothing beats a concert in Tijuana.

But I think definitely, Tijuana is a very special border because it's bordered with California, people.

Others work in San Diego and live in Tijuana.

So what did your childhood smell like growing up in Mexico and Tijuana?

So I was there-- you know when you watch "Narcos Mexico" and they're in Tijuana in the '90s?

And then your book outlines the story of Alan Shepard going to Tijuana for some sort of less than family friendly reasons, which ultimately leads

But he actually found out that it's the Chinese mafia in Tijuana that is paying off the cartel to fight the war for them

So the money's coming from the Chinese traffickers and the Chinese mafia based in Tijuana.

And so I went back to Tijuana, picked up my stuff.

And I think that has to do with the fact that I'm from Tijuana, and I grew up listening to-- I mean,

But can you share with us something that you really like from Tijuana?

So towns like Juarez, and Tijuana, and so became known as depots or hubs for smuggling people.

They went to Cuba, they went to Tijuana, they went to Paris, they went to London.

Don’t believe what the media says about all these narco wars happening in Tijuana, right now the Tijuana food scene is one of the best food scenes in the world.

Eventually, as I left Mexico and I moved to Tijuana, it was a completely-- it's the first time I met Mexican-Americans.

And late one night, Alan Shepard went over the border into Tijuana with a woman who was not his wife.

In 1982, Fermina had worked at an electronics assembly plant in Tijuana where she had earned $0.65 an hour, quote, "soldering gold filaments to nodes

I always say before being a Mexican, I am from Tijuana.

I think Tijuana is a very unique place.

And I was like, you haven't been to Tijuana.

I'm like, yeah, but going to Tijuana is crossing to San Diego.

And so hearing him talk about that story and then together as a group crossing the border in Tijuana gave it a really different experience.

And just recently in December, we opened an office in Tijuana.

painter, voice actor, writer, and director, born in Mexico City and raised in Tijuana.

I was nine years old, so I was a teenager in Tijuana.

Just to get us started, I would like to talk to you a little bit about your experience being born and raised in Tijuana,

It's also, in every sense, culturally-- the way that I think has to do with the fact that I'm from Tijuana but I went to Mexico.