US post new Mexican travel warnings

Food for thought

https://time.com/longform/portugal-drug-use-decriminalization/

CFerguson wrote:

RVhiker wrote:
About two weeks ago, my wife and I were in Roma, Texas at the World Birding Center there, which is a nice overlook over the Rio Grande. Roma is a nice town filled with good people and good restaurants. As we were walking to the overlook, we heard a war break out - the number of shots of different types could not be counted. Literally - and I mean literally - hundreds of shots.

You have to be careful on the border.

I'm disappointed to hear that about Roma. My wife is looking forward to spending some birding time there soon. We'll still go, maybe just not stay as long as we'd like.

fwiw, I lived in south Texas for years back in the 80s and loved the people there. It was said back then that the illegals in the area (Kingsville) outnumbered the legals. But it was good people that snuck across to work their butts off. I never felt threatened at any time.
There are bad areas everywhere (and el paso has always been one imo). I've been in downtown Atlanta at 2am and didn't feel as threatened as I felt at 2pm in downtown San Francicso even tho I was armed in SF and gunless in Atlanta.

Roma is great. Good folks, good food, and a good tire repair shop (Rene's). Several hundred feet across the border is the problem.

By the way, when camped at Falcon Lake State Park we heard a very significant skirmish across the river. It was three very heavy volleys of gunfire.

RVhiker wrote:
About two weeks ago, my wife and I were in Roma, Texas at the World Birding Center there, which is a nice overlook over the Rio Grande. Roma is a nice town filled with good people and good restaurants. As we were walking to the overlook, we heard a war break out - the number of shots of different types could not be counted. Literally - and I mean literally - hundreds of shots.

You have to be careful on the border.

I'm disappointed to hear that about Roma. My wife is looking forward to spending some birding time there soon. We'll still go, maybe just not stay as long as we'd like.

fwiw, I lived in south Texas for years back in the 80s and loved the people there. It was said back then that the illegals in the area (Kingsville) outnumbered the legals. But it was good people that snuck across to work their butts off. I never felt threatened at any time.
There are bad areas everywhere (and el paso has always been one imo). I've been in downtown Atlanta at 2am and didn't feel as threatened as I felt at 2pm in downtown San Francicso even tho I was armed in SF and gunless in Atlanta.

All depends on where you go. A lot of the Americans who travel to Mexico fly in, take a shuttle to the resort, and stay there the entire time.

DallasSteve wrote:
Did anybody here see what happened when the police tried to arrest the son of El Chapo a few weeks ago? Tell me the last time something like that happened in the USA? I'm waiting.

Well I have to wake up the mods;
I seem to remember a while back when somebody that refused to pay his rent for ground rented from the people of the USA. "If you want to evict the cows"

I recall once when we were near El Paso hearing the mayor on the radio warning people that the battle going on across the river was dropping shots into the El Paso downtown area. And to stay away.

About two weeks ago, my wife and I were in Roma, Texas at the World Birding Center there, which is a nice overlook over the Rio Grande. Roma is a nice town filled with good people and good restaurants. As we were walking to the overlook, we heard a war break out - the number of shots of different types could not be counted. Literally - and I mean literally - hundreds of shots.

You have to be careful on the border.

Albequerque is notorious. Every RVer I've talked with from there ,and El Paso told numerous accounts of thefts from them an family and neighbors, break ins etc.
Any city in Southern California and border town of Texas and New Mexico and I can write a book on what we observed on Arizona as well along the I10 and I20 and I40 and other roads in the Southwest but far fewer murders and kidnapings, andviolence than Mexico As to Mexico,I felt more comfortable on Hy1 in Viet Nam north of Qui Nhon, more safe than areas with major highways or transport roads,and cities of Mexico. there are areas that Natives know how to steer a course, their lives around the Narco Terrorist/Government Crooks. But most of them have relatives taken from them by violence.
You feel safe going the same routes and going to same locations as years and decades before but better start acknowledging that is changing and reassessing priorities with safety the highest priority.Decades ago I wouldn't travel many areas unless with friends and heavily armed.You cannot be armed in Mexico as a Civilian or any other status unless Mexican Police or Military.
You roll the dice and you take your chances. A lot of people have and contineu to tour Mexico but the situation is changing for the worse.

Of all the places we went this last year we will never return to Sacramento, Albuquerque, El Paso and New Orleans.

None of them meet my minimum standards.

You don’t need to go to Mexico too take a deadly chance. Just come to Jacksonville, FL. You can join the count, 140 homicides so far 2019. 77% higher murder rate than Miami based on population.