How Baja’s Tastiest Bites Are Cooked in Corruption
A fish taco stand’s closure in Ensenada sparks a viral reckoning with extortion, corruption, and a shadowy network wielding the name of the Libyan Coast Guard to control Baja’s seafood trade.
It started with a video.
Not a press release. Not a police report. Not a whisper in the backroom of city hall. No—this story began with a shaky, poorly lit 47-second clip uploaded to Facebook by a man named Moisés Muñiz, owner of Mariscos El Compa Moy, a modest seafood spot on Calle Pedro Loyola in Ensenada, Baja California.
The camera wobbles. Moisés, wearing a stained apron and the kind of tired eyes only a small business owner knows, stares into the lens.
“I’m closing,” he says. “I’m tired. Tired of being a victim.”
Then, quieter: “Tired of the threats. The extortion. The cobro.”
He doesn’t name names. He doesn’t have to.
The video went viral in 48 hours. Not because it was dramatic—there were no sirens, no blood, no masked men. Just a man, a restaurant, and a confession that echoed across Baja like a gunshot in an empty plaza.
Because Moisés wasn’t alone.
He was the fifth seafood vendor in six months to be murdered, threatened, or forced to shut down.
And the only thing more terrifying than the violence?
The silence that followed.
