Two boys on their way to school stop to look at pools of blood inside a Tijuana house where a shootout occurred the night before. Don Bartletti / Los Angeles TimesFor Tijuana Children, Drug War Gore Is Part
Of Their School Day -- L.A. Times
Of Their School Day -- L.A. Times
Youths are increasingly exposed to the grisly violence that pervades the city.
Reporting from Tijuana -- The schoolchildren bounded up the rickety steps and followed the path of shattered glass into the two-story house on Laguna Salada Street. Two boys in neatly pressed gray pants flipped open their cellphones and took pictures of the pools of sticky blood. One teenager with a blue backpack pounced on a mangled bullet lying near a stained mattress.
In the living room, someone slipped on a pile of human entrails. Downstairs, girls in blue skirts and white socks carefully avoided the blood dripping through the ceiling.
The "Scarface" poster hanging on the pockmarked wall disappeared.
The day before, a shootout between Mexican soldiers and drug cartel suspects had left three suspects and a soldier dead in the safe house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. Police had cleared the bodies, including the corpse of a kidnapping victim stuffed in a refrigerator. But someone had left the door open.
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My Comment: And it is getting worse.