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From the Tecate Records
The Paper Trail followed the Adams name to Tecate: an old ranching family, a murdered water defender, and the deadliest years in the city's recent history, while Olga Zulema Adams Pereyra was mayor. No record ties Carlos Adams to these killings.
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From the Tecate Records
The Paper Trail followed the Adams name across the border to Tecate. What turned up there was bigger than one candidate.
An old ranching family in the hills east of town. A water defender gunned down in 2020. And three years when Tecate's murders more than doubled, while Olga Zulema Adams Pereyra ran City Hall. She's the mayor in the post Carlos Adams answered with "But my family ? That's not okay."
These stories stand on their own. Read them for Tecate. Just know where the line is: no record ties Carlos Adams to any of these killings.
- The Adamses of Nejí. In 2001, an 82-year-old rancher told a historian how his family came to the land east of Tecate, and set her straight on who was who.
- 'Sin agua no podemos hacer nada'. Óscar Eyraud Adams fought for water for his Kumiai community. In 2020 he was shot and killed. Nobody's been charged.
- Tecate's Deadliest Years, by the Numbers. Murders went from 96 to 241 a year between 2019 and 2021. The day almost 100 city cops barricaded City Hall to keep state agents from arresting the mayor. And what the numbers can't tell you.
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- BackgroundTecate's Deadliest Years, by the Numbers
Between 2019 and 2021, homicide victims in Tecate went from 96 a year to 241. A council member was shot near City Hall. A Kumiai water defender was killed. Here's what the state's own tables show, and what they can't tell you.
- BackgroundThe Adamses of Nejí
In 2001, an 82-year-old rancher at Nejí, east of Tecate, told a university historian how his family came to the land: an English grandfather, a French father, and women who owned the ranch. It's a story about a valley where settler ranchers and a Kumiai community share a name.