Bodies of Australian surfers found in Sinaloa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3341085/Inside-Mexican-city-Sinaloa-known-Cemetery-cartels-rule-murders-rife.html?ito=social-facebook
Forum Discussion
Sheesh :(
Any place there is heavy drug cartel presence, the cops and the military convoy and cluster and generally 99.9% of the area has no police at all. So if they think they can get away with it, common criminals roam and cherry pick targets that will not offend the sensibilities of cartel sicarios.
Sinaloa except for tourist Mazatlan is no place to vacation. Rural and isolated Sinaloa is a death wish. Same for many areas in bigger cities and towns. Culiacan is not the place to wander off the main drag. OK to find a hotel on the main boulevard and then get out of Dodge first thing in the morning, but I will not even seek out a restaurant in that city. Mochis, Escuinapa, and every last non-Mazatlan beach is off my radar. This is totally Bad Karma land. Mex 15 and 15-D all the way to Tepic or Sn Blas.
What makes me wonder is the utter lack of decent surf until near Mazatlan. From there north is the shore for the Gulf of California. Even Mazatlan needs the right wind and swell to have surfable water. South of Mazatlan the surf gets better, but Sn Blas southward is supposedly better yet. Big question mark.
The violence down here is well-known world-wide. To have Australians decide to vacation in Sinaloa is hard and I mean REALLY hard to fathom. All this just does not fit somehow.
Wanton predation on helpless tourists is not anything other than a crime of opportunity and unless the victims were carrying a large amount of cash what possible motive could a scumbag have? The van was not stolen. A lot of questions that will probably go forever answered.
Any place there is heavy drug cartel presence, the cops and the military convoy and cluster and generally 99.9% of the area has no police at all. So if they think they can get away with it, common criminals roam and cherry pick targets that will not offend the sensibilities of cartel sicarios.
Sinaloa except for tourist Mazatlan is no place to vacation. Rural and isolated Sinaloa is a death wish. Same for many areas in bigger cities and towns. Culiacan is not the place to wander off the main drag. OK to find a hotel on the main boulevard and then get out of Dodge first thing in the morning, but I will not even seek out a restaurant in that city. Mochis, Escuinapa, and every last non-Mazatlan beach is off my radar. This is totally Bad Karma land. Mex 15 and 15-D all the way to Tepic or Sn Blas.
What makes me wonder is the utter lack of decent surf until near Mazatlan. From there north is the shore for the Gulf of California. Even Mazatlan needs the right wind and swell to have surfable water. South of Mazatlan the surf gets better, but Sn Blas southward is supposedly better yet. Big question mark.
The violence down here is well-known world-wide. To have Australians decide to vacation in Sinaloa is hard and I mean REALLY hard to fathom. All this just does not fit somehow.
Wanton predation on helpless tourists is not anything other than a crime of opportunity and unless the victims were carrying a large amount of cash what possible motive could a scumbag have? The van was not stolen. A lot of questions that will probably go forever answered.
