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Baja and Beyond's Baja California Blog

June 5, 2009
From the Office of the Governor of Baja California
Residents from the United States now have a toll free number to complaint
against common and organized crime within the Mexican territory. The number
1-866-201-5060 is for both, residents of California and the rest of the United States, who can provide the authorities in Baja California, in an anonymous way, information about organized crime and common crime located in Mexico.

Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, Secretary of Public Security in Baja California and Mexican Consul Remedios Gomez Arnau, presented the new toll free phone service 1-866-201-5060 at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego; which can be used to expose criminals located in Mexico or to report if they have been the victim of a crime when transiting through Baja or while living here.

When a caller dials 1-866-201-5060, the call comes into the program operated by the state government of Baja California, specializing in bilingual telephone operators who immediately transfer the complaint to Mexican authorities for their attention. The service is 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. The program is configured to block phone numbers from which the calls are made, they are not recorded and the telephone operators may not ask the complainant's personal data.

June 4, 2009
A Chula Vista man found dead in his car in east Tijuana was NOT a tourist. Baja California officials say he MIGHT have been killed in the U.S. and then taken across the border. Some press reports state that he was kidnapped. Chula Vista police said there is no evidence of a kidnapping. We pray for the family, but we want to make it clear once again, that he was NOT A TOURIST.

June 3, 2009
Officials say Baja California wants to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Baja California's Secretary of Environmental Protection, Socrates Bastida, told a San Diego forum that a wind energy park is being developed in La Rumorosa, near Tecate. They expect 75 percent of their public lighting to come from the wind generators by 2011.

June 2, 2009
From the San Diego Daily Transcipt - According to statistics from the Tijuana Convention & Visitor's Bureau, the total number of estimated Americans crossing the San Ysidro and Otay Mesa Ports of Entry (including U.S. citizens living in Baja California and working in San Diego) in 2008 was 42 percent below 2004 figures. More recently, the total American border crossings in the first three months of 2009 are fewer than at the same time last year.

The recent dramatic drug-related violence in Baja California has been largely a response to the successful efforts of Mexican law enforcement officials to crack down on the illegal drug trade and capture key cartel leaders over the last decade, spurring volatility and brutal power grabs among the criminal hierarchy.

June 1, 2009
It is now official--starting today you need a passport, passport card, SENTRI pass or other official documentation to get back into the U.S. from land or sea travel in Mexico, including Baja California. Children under the age of 16 can still use birth certificates.