Tijuana's Rambo,Half an hour drive from San Diego in frontier towns like Tijuana, it's a war zone.

Half an hour drive from San Diego in frontier towns like Tijuana, it's a war zone.
Federal police officers stand on guard in a street of Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008. Inspectors have raided 15 pharmacies in downtown Tijuana in a search of counterfeit and illegal drugs.
Mexican police are fighting a bloody battle against the drug lords. Since the beginning of the year, more than 1,500 people have been killed, a third of them members of the military and police officers. "This is a war, and in a war, you have tragedies," Tijuana Police Chief Alberto Capella said. "And we are not finished paying the costs." Capella had a near miss, himself, when drug lords showed up at his home in November. He said 20 gunmen laid siege to his house in the middle of the night, firing 250 shots. "The noise is incredible, incredible noise," he said. "They start shooting, and when I saw my room, it [was] illuminated from the bullets."
Capella shot back at them and survived, earning the nickname "Tijuana's Rambo" for his bravery.