Gustavo Solis
Investigative Border ReporterGustavo became the Investigative Border Reporter at KPBS in 2021. He was born in Mexico City, grew up in San Diego and has two passports to prove it. He graduated from Columbia University’s School of Journalism in 2013 and has worked in New York City, Miami, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and San Diego. In 2018 he was part of a team of reporters who shared a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. When he’s not working - and even sometimes when he should be - Gustavo is surfing on both sides of the border.
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Here in San Diego, life-saving medicines like naloxone have helped reduce the number of fatal fentanyl overdoses. But Mexico's restrictive drug policies make the medicine almost impossible to get in Tijuana. -
After skyrocketing for nearly a decade, the number of fentanyl overdose deaths dropped slightly in 2023.
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State Attorney General Rob Bonta met with immigrant rights groups and elected officials in San Diego to discuss his office's efforts to protect California's immigrant communities. -
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