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Tijuana can seem like two cities at the same time — and it's never more evident than in its relationship with culture and cartels.

Tijuana residents fight back against the violence -- from doctors staging walkouts to artists defiantly reclaiming venues

Lourdes Maldonado's neighborhood is controlled, some say, by a different drug cartel

Mexican officials say remnants of the Arellano-Félix cartel is responsible for killing Margarito Martínez Esquivel and Lourdes Maldonado López.

Tijuana is often characterized by a one-dimensional narrative in both Mexico and the U.S. But the metropolis has many sides that rarely get discussed.

The city is shaken by the assassination of another police chief and the arrest of a powerful drug suspect. But life — and art — goes on.

Tijuana has high highs and low lows, like any border city. Longtime correspondent Sandra Dibble finds this out the hard and easy way in the latest episode of her podcast.

A prominent Tijuana journalist is ambushed and a family falls victim to the Arellano cartel. But another side of the city shines through in a burgeoning sense of community.

Jesus Blacornelas, editor of a Tijuana weekly newspaper, was seriously wounded Nov. 27, 1997 in a hail of bullets that left his bodyguard and one of his assailants dead.

From The San Diego Union-Tribune, Friday, July 31, 1998: By Sandra Dibble Down below, sirens blared, electric signs flickered, and thudding bass rhythms blasted from the bars along Avenida Revolucion.