Forget Cartel Problems
For years on this and other forums people have posted that they are afraid of travel in Mexico due to cartel crime. Not lately. The problems are all the Lefties demonstrating. First we had the general...
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Everrrrybody's an expert except people who live here.
You are ALL wrong. 100%
How's that for being blunt?
Normalistas and radical students do not target tourists. They are dreamy-eyed Marxists who believe socialism is the cure for all things. They hijack buses, fight with the police, occupy school buildings and when they feel it's necessary burn down the government offices in the state capitols. Hey wait a minute isn't that something like People's Park, and Mario Savio in the sixties?
Sicarios and secuestreros (kidnappers) do not target foreigners because there is not enough money involved and it always brings down an avalanche of police and army.
The problem is ineffective police. A vacuum. Some are in the employ of the cartelistas and the rest are terrified to respond to a crime or even to patrol.
This caused and still causes a vacuum. Dodge City without the Earp brothers, and Doc Holiday. The police have radios so when they hear about a problem, they can turn on lights and siren and go Code 3 the other way.
The more people the cartelistas can get hooked onto cristal the more they will rob and the less pressure will filter it's way to the Jefes de plazas. It's the petty robbers, the petty car jackers, the petty thieves that cause all the problems for tourists. Most of them are supporting drug habits.
Granted, if you carefully time your travel and manage to thread your way down countless boulevards and intercept a normalista demonstration, the crowning acheivement would be to bulldoze down the center of the street pushing demonstrators aside. THEN you might find yourself in hot water.
Mexico has NEVER had good police. But I can say this: The SSP of today are about a hundred times more effective then the old PJF. It's the always have been flaky Policia de Municipios that have gone TOTALLY belly-up performance wise.
By the way, the posting I made here early today is the SOLE bit of criminal news I have heard in quite awhile. Are there stacks of reports out there on the internet, mile-long threads of criminal chronicles regarding crimes against tourists that I have been missing. Or is this subject a mouse that is trying to roar?
You are ALL wrong. 100%
How's that for being blunt?
Normalistas and radical students do not target tourists. They are dreamy-eyed Marxists who believe socialism is the cure for all things. They hijack buses, fight with the police, occupy school buildings and when they feel it's necessary burn down the government offices in the state capitols. Hey wait a minute isn't that something like People's Park, and Mario Savio in the sixties?
Sicarios and secuestreros (kidnappers) do not target foreigners because there is not enough money involved and it always brings down an avalanche of police and army.
The problem is ineffective police. A vacuum. Some are in the employ of the cartelistas and the rest are terrified to respond to a crime or even to patrol.
This caused and still causes a vacuum. Dodge City without the Earp brothers, and Doc Holiday. The police have radios so when they hear about a problem, they can turn on lights and siren and go Code 3 the other way.
The more people the cartelistas can get hooked onto cristal the more they will rob and the less pressure will filter it's way to the Jefes de plazas. It's the petty robbers, the petty car jackers, the petty thieves that cause all the problems for tourists. Most of them are supporting drug habits.
Granted, if you carefully time your travel and manage to thread your way down countless boulevards and intercept a normalista demonstration, the crowning acheivement would be to bulldoze down the center of the street pushing demonstrators aside. THEN you might find yourself in hot water.
Mexico has NEVER had good police. But I can say this: The SSP of today are about a hundred times more effective then the old PJF. It's the always have been flaky Policia de Municipios that have gone TOTALLY belly-up performance wise.
By the way, the posting I made here early today is the SOLE bit of criminal news I have heard in quite awhile. Are there stacks of reports out there on the internet, mile-long threads of criminal chronicles regarding crimes against tourists that I have been missing. Or is this subject a mouse that is trying to roar?
