I’d say good for them. But in Mexico, it’s seldom clear that there’s a right side and a wrong side. Revolutions against dictators and thugs usually turn out badly.
The militia shot some tourists for not stopping at a roadblock. Not good.
“The militia shot some tourists for not stopping at a roadblock. Not good.”
They went to Mexico as tourists.
They either did nhot know about or failed to understand what was going on in the town.
They failed to stop when told to do so by armed men.
As Heinlein said, in nature the penalty for stupidity is death. The sentence is executed immediately, and there is no appeal.
They were lucky to come out of it with their lives.
That’s standard military ops though. Overseas if we set up a road block and someone runs it, they get lit up. Means they’re guilty. In this case maybe they were scared, and probably rightfully so, but in this case, there was no right side. The tourists would of had no idea they just wanted to see where they were going and check for weapons.
This is a reminder as to why a person needs to be situationally aware at all times. Also, perhaps avoid traveling to unstable countries or regions.
“The militia shot some tourists for not stopping at a roadblock. Not good.”
I tend to take that with a grain of salt. If a tourist is going to run a checkpoint of armed gunmen not only does the “tourist” have balls of steal hes got to have something worth risking his life in that car, and I don’t think its legal.
Honestly such a story sounds like a corrupt government sympathetic plant.