Posted on 09/17/2019 1:19:45 PM PDT by rogerantone1
In 2018, Mexico had 35,964 murders — a rate of 29 per 100,000 people. Preliminary estimates for 2018 show a US murder rate of 4.9 per 100,000.
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videos on you tube interview expats in Mexico...one idiot was saying that there are so many murders in the US and Mexico is far safer........I guess he doesn’t follow the local Mexican media...
A young man in MO from southern Mexico told me quite a bit in the late ‘70s about where he grew up in southern Mexico before then. He was not much over 4 feet tall, for real. He was easy going. With a few nights of narration, he painted a very interesting picture of life down there and back then.
Things have changed much since then according to another laborer in CO a few years back. Work, housing, much of it very different and more contemporary.
Went with family as a boy to visit some stores on a dirt street in Laredo in the ‘60s. Wow. Culture shock. ;)
There was a documentary on Netflix that showed how the people starting to group together to protect themselves against the Cartels. What did the government do? It came in with soldiers and took their guns saying it was dangerous for citizens to have guns. LOL. Only in Mexico.
My friend grew up in a German enclave in Mexico City. The stories he has. Everyone owns a dog and has bars on their windows in the big city. And it is well known that if you have money to keep an eye on your kids, or they will be targets for kidnapping. And never ever trust the police.
There are a bunch of very wealthy Mexicans who live in Texas because they want to protect their kids. They are illegal and don’t cause trouble and lay low.
A neighbor (Apache descendant, pretty cool) up on the Range in CO tried to talk me into buying Mexican land and moving down there. He said there were no land use or building regulations. :) It probably would have been fun, but we were having enough of an adventure on the Range in spite of the lefty majority there.
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10/ Quote of the Day: In today’s farce of a hearing on the Mueller report, when former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was asked by Democrat clown Eric Swalwell if he always put Trump notes in his safe, he responded, “No, that safe has a lot of guns in it.”
In border towns they’re moving to keep from being murdered. They even have to bury their dead in the US because the grave diggers are afraid of retaliation by the narcos. (Yes,they still dig graves by hand.)
I hope that more people in Mexico will legally have firearms for self-defense before long. It might even help the economy there in some places. The drug abuse and security concerns are costing us too much money and time in many ways in both countries.
I always hear about Canadians crowing about how they have a home in Mexico. I just shake my head. Apparently Canadians cannot out right have ownership under Mexican law but must hold the home under a proxy or shell service of some kind. Just can’t stop thinking about their safety and how easily they could lose their private property.
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