‘As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean…

Shards of the Berlin Wall scattered worldwide after it crumbled in 1989, with collectors putting them in hotels, schools, transit stations and parks. Marcos Cline, who makes commercials and other digital productions in Los Angeles, needed a home for his artifact and found an ally in Tijuana’s mayor…

President Joe Biden issued an executive order his first day in office to halt wall construction, ending a signature effort by his predecessor, Donald Trump. But his administration has moved ahead with small, already-contracted projects, including replacing a two-layered wall in San Diego standing 18 feet (5.5 meters) high with one rising 30 feet (9.1 meters) and stretching 0.6 mile (1 kilometer) to the ocean..’ (POLITICO)

Interestingly, Tijuana’s mayor Montserrat Caballero, who is married to an American living in San Diego, used to negotiate the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing with frequency. However, since alerted by US intelligence to credible threats against her (probably cartel-related) and an assassination attempt on her bodyguard, she and her son have been living in a military barracks in Tijuana under Mexican government protection.