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jfkmk
Oct 08, 2018Explorer
navegator wrote:
Señor jfkmk you read in a news paper USA today some report and they gave statistics of how bad some cities in Mexico are, that same news paper will report on another country with statistics that will show how bad a different city in another part of the world is, statistically speaking I can manipulate any data to show what I want you to read, many reporters think that they have the correct data and it is "enhansed" to sell the story.
I have been present at a news conference with the actual data and correct figures, that correct information was given by the Chiefs to the reporters present at the news briefing and what was printed was totally different.
There are some in this forum that live, travel or have business in. Mexico that try to get the correct information to those that want to travel to Mexico in a safe enjoyable manner, yes Acapulco is not goodd for any turista, not even for Mexicans, the problem with Los Cabos again are the narcos, do you know how desolate some of those beaches are? Perfect landing areas for the semi-submerged narco submarines to bring the product and transfer to pangas, the Mexican Navy has intercepted hundrds of pangas going out to sea with plastic containers with fuel and bails of mariguana for the subs to return to Colombia and where do the narcos want to live?
Los Cabos of course
Every cartel wants a piece of the action, either take the product up to Tijuana or transfer it to the main land, shorter route by land to the border and bypass most of the Armies check points, there are also a lot of dirt landing strips in Baja in the middle of no where, perfect for evading the radar blimp in Arizona.
navegator
With all due respect, the article quoted is just one example of many, and was very specific to quoting homicides by city. I didn’t have the time to list each article talking about crime rates in Mexico.
Mexico is still one of the safer tourist destinations. I enjoyed my visits there, but with the bump in crime rates, especially this year, and the associated travel warnings, I’ll wait to go back until things improve.
As for drug cartels not targeting tourists, I don’t want to be around that either. A murder is a murder, I don’t want to be near it and don’t really care that I wasn’t the target.
Thanks for your input!
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