Under those little red dead-man icons lies the word "Tijuana" in an ordinary Google Map. Here my family's ancestral city is shrouded by the towering evidence of death in one of the most active fronts in Mexico's infinitely gruesome and ever spectral "drug war." The interactive map, available here, is by the journalists at KPBS. It's part of a comprehensive online package of media, smartly rendered in English and Spanish, on the mounting toll in TJ. Check it out.
* Also, see the interactive map of smugglers' border tunnels along the U.S.-Mexico border, at the Union-Tribune, via Across the Border.
