We don’t have to go to Mexico to be killed by criminal gangs anymore.
Mexico?
Hell, don’t go to Canada, Australia, Chicago, Manhattan, California— a whole host of places are no go zones these days.
Mexico has been off my list for quite some time now.
I worked in Mexico for a couple of years in the mid-90s, but I would never cross the border now for any reason.
Don't worry, I won't.
But I DO worry that Mexico (and many other third world countries) is coming to me.
there is NOTHING south of the border worth your life, nothing...
OK, I went to Nuevo Laredo across from TX, but I only brought back straw hats, I promise.
But I did get to meet the Corona Girls, they hot
I would assume the cruise ships on their Western Caribbean tours have strict security….( not having been on one)….stopping just off the coast of Mexico
Even the Eastern Caribbean touches down at a small part of Haiti…( another dangerous hotspot)
What’s in Mexico? All the Mexicans live in the U.S.
we were just saying the exact same thing after watching that “Contraband: Seized at the Border” ... nothing new about the sentiment for us, it just reminded us of our vow regarding zero visits to Mexico ...
More than 40 million people visit Mexico annually.
The show House hunters has scores of programs of people buying houses in Mexico and I always say to myself these people are crazy
A little history about Mexico.
The PRI party took over the country and was in power for over 70 years. The PRI has very close ties to the soviet union.
The second largest KGB base in the world was in Mexico City.
After the soviet union fell, Mexico was a struggling third world country but mostly stable. Then came the cartels. They took over the northern states and eventually took over Mexico City. Then the Chinese got into the act and are now partners with the cartels. The Mexican government is a government in name only. The cartels run Mexico with financial backing from China.
With all that going on, our betters in DC have left our border with ChinaMex wide open.
This could only happen with a compromised bribed President Biden.
But Trump is on trial?
How about we plant about a 60 mile deep minefield to keep Mexico in Mexico?
Same deal in Baltimore, Chicago or Memphis.
We go to Mexico every year. The tourist resorts where we stay in Nuevo Vallarta and Cancun are extremely safe. In fact there is a greater chance that I will be victim of armed robbery or carjacking in my daily commute across Oakland, or perhaps assaulted walking the streets of downtown SF. There have also been random shootings on local freeways.
Mexico is a narco-state but you can largely avoid the violence by exercising some care. I would never venture into Tijuana (TJ) these days much less go camping south of Ensenada. Not blaming the victims, but this was avoidable.
I used to surf K-55 in Baja many times.....Camped on the beach.....Many many years ago
Many years ago I traveled in Mexico with no fear. There was the occasional bribe (la modridta) to make things right. I am a white boy that speaks Spanish and married to a Mexican national now an USA citizen for over 40 years. We no longer drive in Mexico as it is to dangerous. We will fly into a resort center where they have adequate security.
Do not drive into Mexico. It is dangerous.
Mexico is here..
But the only Spanish speaking place I've ever visited is Puerto Rico...and the same will be true when I take my last breath.