Mexico’s Playa Bagdad mixes sun, sand and drug trafficking
By Maria Verza | AP August 27
In this Aug. 2, 2019 photo, seagulls fly over food trucks in Playa Bagdad close to the mouth of the Rio Grande, near the border city of Matamoros, Mexico. Unlike the Tijuana-Imperial beach border, on the western end, here there are no steel pilings marching out to sea, to stop migrants from swimming, wading or paddling across to the United States. (Emilio Espejel/Associated Press)
PLAYA BAGDAD, Mexico — At the very eastern end of the U.S.-Mexico border there’s a long strip of sand where the Rio Grande meets the sea. It is called Playa Bagdad — or ‘Bagdad Beach.’
Unlike the Tijuana-Imperial Beach border on the western end, here there are no steel pilings marching out to sea to stop migrants from swimming, wading or paddling across to the United States.
In Playa Bagdad, which is spelled ‘Playa Baghdad’ by the Drug Enforcement Agency, it’s apparently unnecessary: This is a beach for drugs and crime, not migrants.
Read more at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mexicos-playa-bagdad-mixes-sun-sand-and-drug-trafficking/2019/08/27/c6f24592-c883-11e9-9615-8f1a32962e04_story.html
....A major player in the American Civil War, today few realize it even existed, nor its vital importance to the Confederacy in its rebellion against the United States. One of the first appearances of Bagdad was on a map entitled "Map of the Country Adjacent to the Left Bank of the Rio Grande Below Matamoros, 1847."
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More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagdad,_Tamaulipas
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