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Violence in Cancun, other hotspots threatens Mexico's tourism industry
WFAA.COM ^ | 31 MARCH 2018 | DAVE AGREN

Posted on 03/31/2018 5:57:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Tourists taking the ferry from this tourist town to the island of Cozumel now walk down a wharf lined with police, heavily armed soldiers and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Those safeguards came after a Feb. 21 explosion ripped through one of the ferries, injuring 24 people, including five Americans. Explosives were later found on another ferry owned by the same company.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; acapulco; arizona; california; cancun; cozumel; crime; drugcartels; election2018; election2020; florida; guerrero; ixtapa; loscabos; mexico; newmexico; newyork; texas; tourism; violence

1 posted on 03/31/2018 5:57:04 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Mexico is a craphole.


2 posted on 03/31/2018 6:00:22 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome

The resorts were always next door to crap holes.


3 posted on 03/31/2018 6:23:06 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Yup. Jamaica, the same.


4 posted on 03/31/2018 6:25:53 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Don’t get me wrong, I TOTALLY SUPPORT accurate reporting on the crime in Mexico, but it sure would be nice if we had accurate reporting about the crime in places like BALTIMORE (i.e., Inner Harbor). I realize that there’s a lot of businesses and city revenue from there if white people keep frequenting the place - but they STILL should be told of the dangers that are there, 24/7. Same for other cities.


5 posted on 03/31/2018 6:28:25 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

My brother-in-law keeps traveling to Mexico with his two sons, several times a year. I have tried to explain the danger to him, but it falls on deaf ears. He never follows the news. He would be better off going to Iraq for vacation.


6 posted on 03/31/2018 7:19:27 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; ...

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7 posted on 03/31/2018 7:40:38 PM PDT by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I was in Baja Mexico last week, there couldn't have been a more tranquila experience. We even took an excursion into San Jose del Cabo for the feast of St. Joseph with no hay problemo.

Yes Baja is an isolated peninsula, but I was impressed at how copacetic everyone was with the los gringos del Norte.

Bring money...


8 posted on 03/31/2018 7:52:43 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article204203669.html

Los Cabos now has become the most dangerous city in the world.... so, yes, I’ve lived in high crime-rate cities but it didn’t have an affect on me.

But Cabos was not touched by this stuff a short time ago, now it is. Everyone can make up their own mind.


9 posted on 03/31/2018 8:21:14 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: mac_truck

American visitors and Olympians said much the same things about Germany circa 1936.


10 posted on 03/31/2018 8:22:23 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: BeadCounter
Lol...if Los Cabos is the most dangerous city on the planet, than I'm the Easter Bunny.

Poor and rural and scenic yes...extremely dangerous no.

11 posted on 03/31/2018 9:03:09 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck
Lol...if Los Cabos is the most dangerous city on the planet, than I'm the Easter Bunny.
Poor and rural and scenic yes...extremely dangerous no.

Here, have a carrot, Bugs...

Are you Mexican?
Are you fluent in the mexican spanish dialect?
When did you start going to Los Cabos?

Are you aware that American tourists are murdered or simply vanish without a trace every year from the Los Cabos areas?

Good luck.

12 posted on 03/31/2018 10:34:21 PM PDT by publius911 (Declaration: MSM, I am so over watching or listening to bald perverts, thugs and sluts)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I thought tourism to Mexico was over years ago. I don’t think any of the cruise ships go there anymore.


13 posted on 03/31/2018 10:44:43 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: mac_truck

Mexicon economy, money sent home from illegals, drugs,tourism,they need all three.


14 posted on 04/01/2018 1:29:26 AM PDT by rodguy911 (Home of the free because of the brave! MAGA!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Jimmy Valentine's brother

I am not interested in Mexico. Like bungee jumping with rubber


15 posted on 04/01/2018 3:11:18 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Yes, I always enjoy going to vacation spots requiring a police cordon. I feel so secure. </sac>


16 posted on 04/01/2018 4:48:52 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother (Crush the Democrats; see them driven before you and hear the lamentation of the girly men.)
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To: mac_truck

I’ve been to some very dangerous cities - never had any trouble because I stayed in the “tourist” areas away from where the real deal was going down....only a fool thinks because the “good areas of the place” seem nice that the area isn’t dangerous.


17 posted on 04/01/2018 5:10:30 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Extremely Extreme Extremist. Fentanyl is being counterfeited north of the border, and is potent in micrograms. I'd be very surprised if the formerly wildly lucrative trade in smuggling illegal street drugs isn't somehow related to a rising level of violence in Mexico, too little money spread a little too thin. And when the wall goes up, it will get worse. And UNTIL the wall goes up, the violence south of the border will drive more people north.

18 posted on 04/01/2018 5:27:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

An observation...

When your police are on patrol with machine guns, you know your society is F**ked up.


19 posted on 04/01/2018 6:18:14 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: publius911
You really don't need “luck” to have a good time in Los Cabos, just some basic common sense and a little money.

Go peddle your dystopia somewhere else amigo...

20 posted on 04/01/2018 8:15:00 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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