ABOUT TIJUANA... By Heriberto Yépez Tijuana is an industrial park on the outskirts of Minneapolis. Tijuana is a colony of Tokyo. Tijuana is a Taiwanese sweatshop. Tijuana is a smudge beyond the linden trees of Hamburg... Taken together as one, Tijuana and San Diego form the most fascinating new city in the world, a city of world-class irony... Tijuana is here. It has arrived. Silent as a Trojan horse, inevitable as a flotilla of boat people, more confounding in its innocence, in its power of proclamation, than Spielberg's most pious vision of a flying saucer. -Days of Obligation. An argument with my Mexican father, Richard Rodríguez, Cities like Bogotá or Tijuana help me understand Beckett and Kafka. As an experimental writer the city I live in is my number one source of heterogeneous structures. But sometimes I wonder how this city became a Tijuana. In 1809 a 54-year old Kumiai Indian man converted to Christianity. During the religious ceremony, the Indian told the priest t...