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Results of Tijuana Crackdown Appease Local Business Leaders

By Amy Isackson / Border Reporter,  KPBS Public Broadcasting
Published January 15, 2007 at 1:46 PM PST
This story was published more than 17 years ago.

A prominent Tijuana business group has reestablished its relationship with the government. Business leaders say the government has shown results in fighting crime in the border region. KPBS Reporter A

Results of Tijuana Crackdown Appease Local Business Leaders

A prominent Tijuana business group has reestablished its relationship with the government. Business leaders say the government has shown results in fighting crime in the border region. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.

Tijuana’s Business Advisory Council has been boycotting government events since last September. The council announced the boycott after 44 people were murdered in Tijuana in one month. Many blamed the bloodshed on the arrest of alleged drug kingpin Francisco Javier Arellano Felix.

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The business council also blamed local, state and federal authorities for pointing fingers at each other instead of cracking down on crime. Business Council President Daniel Romero says now that federal forces have arrived in Tijuana, his group will resume relations with government officials. Meanwhile, Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon is lamenting that Operation Tijuana has been more effective in neighboring Mexicali. Federal forces arrested seven suspected Arellano Felix Cartel kidnappers and three policemen there. Mexican President Felipe Calderon ordered soldiers to Tijuana two weeks ago to crack down on drug trafficking. Amy Isackson, KPBS News.

Amy Isackson
Amy Isackson was the border reporter at KPBS from 2004 to 2011. She covered breaking news and feature stories on California-Mexico border issues and immigration, for local and national broadcast. Amy got her start in public radio by pitching a series of stories about rural New Zealand - horse dentistry and sheep sheering - to Radio New Zealand's "Country Life" program. She then worked with Peabody Award-winning radio producers Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, to help create the Sonic Memorial, a series of stories on the World Trade Center before, during and after 9/11. Amy's work has been recognized with awards from the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, the California Chicano News Media Association, and the San Diego Press Club. She won the Sol Price Prize for Responsible Journalism in 2009 from the Society of Professional Journalists for her story about high school students smuggling people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. Prior to venturing into the wonderful world of public radio, Amy worked for Yahoo! Inc. for nearly five years as an editorial surfer, associate producer and broadcast communications manager. She majored in Latin American History at Williams College. She grew up in San Diego and made frequent trips south of the border.
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