Thread by @robertrarce

1) Cartel Related Violence Continues in the Border City of Tijuana--169 Homicides in January to Start 2020

Tijuana registered 2,185 homicides in 2019, 2518 in 2018, and 1,734 in 2017. By comparison, the city of San Diego, which sits approximately 30 miles north in California,

2) recorded 34, 35, and 50 homicides in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Another comparison "the city of Chicago registered 34 homicides to start 2020 in January, a 55% increase from the 22 reported during the same span in 2019. Tijuana recorded 169 murders in January 2020. The violence

3) generally related to turf wars involving street-level dealers aligned with either the Cártel Tijuana Nueva Generación (CTNG) and El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación, against the Sinaloa Cartel. There is also a bloody fight for the right to dominate the Tijuana "plaza" and

4) lucrative routes to the U.S. drug market. The violence in Chicago & other major cities throughout the U.S. can be directly traced to turf wars for the right to sell Mexican drug cartel meth/cocaine/heroin/fentanyl. In Chicago, its primary gangs aligned
chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/1/21117…

5) with distributors for the Sinaloa Cartel & El Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). Sinaloa still has the largest footprint in the U.S. with CJNG being the fastest-growing per a recent DEA report.
chicagotribune.com/news/criminal-…

6) Any calls for foreign terrorist designations (FTO) to be assigned to any other cartels besides the Sinaloa cartel or specific cells & the CJNG is non-sense. Sinaloa/CJNG & aligned U.S. based gangs are responsible for the death by overdose crisis & related violence in the U.S.