Tijuana went from party city to war zone in the space of a single year. It was 2008 and a wave of brazen narco violence had washed over the city; homicides had tripled from the previous year. Businesses shuttered, tourism dried up, the people of the city lived in fear for their lives, and a burgeoning arts scene went into hibernation. But today, the arts scene is coming back in a big way.
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