For years, the property owners in Tijuana have watched land values boom in their bawdy Lower California border town, but no one could be sure for whom they boomed. A vast lawsuit dragging through Mexican courts cast nagging doubt about ownership of the land. Last week Tijuanans had to face up to the hard fact that a big land company held legal title to almost the entire city—and technically could dispossess some 22,000 Tijuana residents.
The roots of Tijuana's travail reach back more than a century. In 1862 the 26,000 acres that make up...
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