About this podcast
Border City is the story of a journalist who in 1994 impulsively leaves her job and family in Washington, D.C., to report on Tijuana, Mexico, a city commonly known for drug violence and illegal immigration into the U.S. She expects to stay on the border a year, maybe two. But her plans change as she is drawn deeper and deeper into the different worlds that converge at the biggest crossing point on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Episodes
- Resilience and hope · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 8A random accident forces Sandra to slow down and embrace her life on the border. New waves of migrants arrive in Tijuana, pushed by violence, poverty, and political upheaval and…
- Tijuana's rocky rebirth · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 7Artists, chefs and ordinary citizens point the way to a revitalized Tijuana, even as the city faces new challenges. Sandra faces challenges too. Two deaths in her own family.
- Tijuanenses fight back · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 6Doctors in their white coats protest the violence, while some young musicians refuse to stay home, and an arts promoter opens a new gallery. Sandra feels caught between two…
- Upheaval in the cartels · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 5The Arellano cartel grows weaker as its top leaders fall, but the violence continues. Threats strike new fears in the highest echelons of law enforcement. The Tijuana opera hosts…
- Gun battles and concerts · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 4Sandra covers the assassination of another police chief and the arrest of a powerful drug suspect. She also sings with the Tijuana opera and invites friends from both sides of…
- A journalist is shot · 27 min · Season 1 Episode 3Sandra ponders the fine line that separates danger from safety in this city of contrasts. A prominent Tijuana journalist is ambushed and a family falls victim to the Arellano…
- Building a life · 31 min · Season 1 Episode 2The kidnapping of a prominent maquiladora executive — and the threatening presence of the Arellano drug cartel — overshadow the city’s ambitious effort to boost its image. But…
- Crime and friendship · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 1Sandra Dibble expected to stay in Tijuana a year. Instead she found herself drawn into the worlds that intersect at this crossroads of the Americas. Journalists. Migrants…
- LA Times Presents | Border City · 2 min · Season 1Border City is a new LA Times Presents podcast from The San Diego Union-Tribune. From Sandra Dibble, a reporter who spent more than 25 years covering the border, comes a story…
