Posted on 12/07/2021 6:42:13 PM PST by BenLurkin
The shooting is the latest in a string of violent incidents on the resort-studded coast, and came in the same week that a special battalion of National Guard troops were assigned to protect the area. Mexican marines with bulletproof vests, helmets and assault rifles were seen patrolling Cancun’s tourist-crowded beaches following the Tuesday shooting.
On Nov. 5, a commando of drug gang gunmen stormed a beach at Puerto Morelos, a resort just south of Cancun, and opened fire in front of luxury hotels, executing two drug dealers from a rival gang. The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover.
The Puerto Morelos shooting came two weeks after a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shootout in the beach town of Tulum in October.
A San Jose, California woman born in India, Anjali Ryot, and German citizen Jennifer Henzold were apparently hit by crossfire from the Oct. 20 drug dealers’ shootout in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos.
Three other foreign tourists were wounded in the shooting at a street-side eatery that has some outdoor tables, right off Tulum’s main strip. They included two German men and a Dutch woman.
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Not exactly Skeet Surfing, but not too far off.
What is this, a James Bond movie?
I’ve been to Cancun and surrounding areas. Maybe mid 1980s. The word was that the Federales were instructed to defend the tourista dollars and keep things safe. Something must have changed.
They don wan no steenkin’ tourista dollars, anymore.
Sounds like a great idea for the olympics.
Why should the snow ski and shoot biathlon folks have all the fun?
> The word was that the Federales were instructed to defend the tourista dollars and keep things safe. Something must have changed. <
The Mexican Marines are still pretty much the real deal. But every other Mexican organization is hopelessly corrupted by narco money.
And thanks to Biden, this might be coming to a town near you.
“American Assassin”
Time to get serious.
♬ If everybody had a 12 gauge and a surfboard too ♬
‘Shooting on the Dock of the Bay, watching the tourists run away.’
I wish they all could be double-barreled
Wish they all could be double-barreled guns!
**And she’ll have guns,guns,guns till her daddy takes her skidoo away**
I think it was same when we were there in @2012..
there is NOTHING in mexco worth yer life...
“I’ve been to Cancun and surrounding areas. Maybe mid 1980s. The word was that the Federales were instructed to defend the tourista dollars and keep things safe. Something must have changed.”
I felt very safe there back then. Criminals knew that they would eventually be staying at a zero-star extended stay Greybar Hotel. Or just disappear.
That’s a good observation.
Especially the line:”A San Jose, California woman born in India, Anjali Ryot, and German citizen Jennifer Henzold were apparently hit by crossfire from the Oct. 20 drug dealers’ shootout in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos.”
How many times would that sound quite natural for M to tell Bond? The top drug dealer and his assassin hit man’s picture would then be shown, along with the woman who somehow holds the key to all of this and happens to be a Miss World runner up from last year.
Maryam D’Abo.
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