Baja California is a State with interesting places, big cities and many little typical towns, it offers peaceful and safe site to visit, so enjoy the warmth of personal hospitality of the people.Whether you have come for a a day, gateway weekend or longer, Baja California is an interesting mixture of the typical and modern things with big cultural activities.
That is the offical Baja California......
....then there is the unofficial Baja California - the violent, dark and dangerous Baja California.
Yesterday, San Diego 10 News I-team broad-casted a report about the daily growing violence in the border-towns .In October alone 283 people have been killed in the gang-war between the mighty Sinaloa Cartel and the equally notorious Arellano-Felix-Cartel. Both groups want to control the city and will stop at nothing. San Diego 10 News now revealed that an American from Texas is a major player in the killings. The sad infamous highlight - a deadly shootout between "good" police officers and corrupt police officers paid by the cartels .
So far the sad facts.
They interviewed the chief of police. They asked him if he as the highest ranking police officer is safe in his city. He looked at the reporter and said:
"If I went to Iraq or Afghanistan I would be in a safer place."
We think that is one of the most note-worthy comments we have heard in a very long time. It is refreshingly open and honest. If the highest police officer isn't safe in a city then who really is?
