Posted by on December 27, 2019 5:00 am
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On Julián Leyzaola Pérez’s watch as police chief, murder rates in Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez plummeted – now after surviving a murderous attack, he’s trying to become mayor of Tijuana

When I interviewed him in 2008, Julián Leyzaola Pérez strutted with a military gait. As he should: a former lieutenant colonel in the Mexican army, he had been summoned to command the police force, then head public security in Tijuana, at the time Mexico’s second-most dangerous city. We met on his first day in the job.

But now, he arrives in a wheelchair to talk.

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