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Spring breakers advised to skip Mexico
Houston Chronicle ^ | 3-1-2011

Posted on 03/01/2011 8:16:42 AM PST by Snickering Hound

AUSTIN - The Texas Department of Public Safety is advising students on spring break to avoid drug violence-plagued Mexico.

A DPS statement Tuesday cited the continued violence and also urged boaters to stay on the U.S. side of Falcon Lake.

A U.S. drug agent was shot and killed Feb. 15 in Mexico. The victim was Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata.

DPS Director Steven McCraw says while drug cartel violence is most severe in northern Mexico, it's prominent in other parts of the country, including resort areas such as Cancun and Acapulco.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: acapulco; cancun; ignoreatyourrisk; immigration; mexico; mostdeadlycity; springbreak; stayoutofmexico; terrorism; texas; wot
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1 posted on 03/01/2011 8:16:44 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Someone would have to be dumber than a post to go into Mexico right now—IMHO.


2 posted on 03/01/2011 8:20:15 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: basil
Wife and I used to spend a week in Ixtapa in January.
Not any more.
3 posted on 03/01/2011 8:25:18 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Snickering Hound

any parent who lets their kid go to Mexico for spring break- is nuts!

I’ve read a report the latest trend is the cartels and affilitates assassinating cabbies (who are often drug mules) along with their fares

Matter of time before there is a major tourist death story


4 posted on 03/01/2011 8:27:28 AM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Snickering Hound

I’d advise everybody to avoid Mexico, period.


5 posted on 03/01/2011 8:28:05 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Snickering Hound

I just got back from a week in Cancun -it was great. This is like saying don’t go to the USA because 500 people were murdered in Detroit last year. Use your common sense.


6 posted on 03/01/2011 8:33:22 AM PST by oncebitten (Re: Obama: "I could carve a better man out of a banana." T. roosevelt)
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To: oncebitten
I just got back from a week in Cancun -it was great. This is like saying don’t go to the USA because 500 people were murdered in Detroit last year. Use your common sense.

One guy going to Mexico and saying it was great is like taking a brochure from the Somalian Travel Board ...
7 posted on 03/01/2011 8:36:07 AM PST by Scythian
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To: oncebitten

I hear Kabul is nice this time of year.


8 posted on 03/01/2011 8:45:44 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Snickering Hound

I lived in Mexico for nearly 7 years and I am here to tell you that I would not go to Mexico now. Not even Cancun. Several foriegn tourists were recently killed there for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.


9 posted on 03/01/2011 8:46:17 AM PST by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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To: Scythian

Somali coastal cruise lines.


10 posted on 03/01/2011 8:46:59 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Snickering Hound

Very good advice, but somewhere there are some idiots who wont pay attention to it. I know someone who is from a town South of Matamores/Brownsville (He’s legal). Every winter he would go there to visit family. He always claimed it was safe in that particular area. I just spoke to him following his most recent visit and he says it has become very dangerous and he might not be going back anytime soon and he fears for his relatives.


11 posted on 03/01/2011 8:47:37 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: oncebitten

USA is one thing. Detroit is another...I wouldn’t go there either.


12 posted on 03/01/2011 8:50:50 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Good thinking!


13 posted on 03/01/2011 8:59:02 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: basil
We lived in Minnesota for 16 years. I think we visited Mexico 14 times in those years.
One year we went to a resort at Hautulco, way south, almost to Belize and had a great time. We had a few extra days so we flew from Hautulco to Oaxaca and checked into a small hotel near the public plaza. Great chicken mole.
Sadly, we just missed the Oaxaca Radish Festival...
14 posted on 03/01/2011 9:12:48 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: Snickering Hound
Don't know what Jack-in-the-Box was thinking
but I'm guessing it's why In-and-Out is winning.

www.allamericanspringbreak.com

15 posted on 03/01/2011 9:13:37 AM PST by wildehunt
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To: Snickering Hound

I am going on “Spring Broke” at home.


16 posted on 03/01/2011 9:21:14 AM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: Snickering Hound

Oh yeah,Anybody kacked in Med-Hi-Co on spring break should get put on the Darwin Award list.


17 posted on 03/01/2011 9:22:43 AM PST by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: oncebitten
Hogwash. In Detroit, they're not kidnapping outsiders for profit...yet. In Detroit, lopped-off heads aren't turning up in Igloo coolers...yet.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

18 posted on 03/01/2011 9:29:09 AM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: Snickering Hound

Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of the Baja peninsula, is well away from the drug farming areas and smuggling routes. More than any other place in Mexico, they depend on tourist dollars rather than narcodollars, so the local cops keep a very tight lid on things and it is still safe. In fact, they actively discourage spring breakers because they are after the more affluent tourists. I really would not go anywhere else in the country right now.


19 posted on 03/01/2011 10:07:12 AM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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You haven’t been to the real Mexico unless you’ve been to Oaxaca...


20 posted on 03/01/2011 10:16:47 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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