Union-Tribune documentary: "Missing in Mexico" | Wendy Fry, Alejandro Tamayo

More than 79,000 people have disappeared in that country, the vast majority since 2006 when former president Felipe Calderón launched Mexico’s war on drugs. Tijuana, a sprawling metropolis of 2.1 million people, became a front line as cartels fought to secure lucrative trafficking routes into the United States. More recently, neighborhoods on the city’s outskirts have been drawn in as low-level drug dealers fight and die for the right to sell methamphetamine on local street corners.Read the story: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2020-12-30/missing-mexico-voicesWatch the documentary: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/5akz3ztqcvq-123