Posted on 02/15/2018 6:14:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The American government has issued a stark warning to all potential tourists to Mexico: "Don't go."
It comes after the country revealed nearly 30,000 people were murdered last year - the highest number in 20 years.
The CIA says the violence levels are comparable with the war zones of Iraq and Syria.
The resort city of Acapulco, a former playground of the rich and famous, is now at the centre of a crime wave that has swept across the country. Extortion, kidnapping and murder are daily events.
I joined the Mexican Federal Police on patrol in what is now one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
A police clear-up operation of yet another murder scene quickly descends into a firefight as officers move into houses and make arrests.
It's chaos. The heavily armed police units are firing in all directions, it is unclear if they are being attacked or not.
Although, as everyone is ducking down, they are assuming they are.
Like so many of these incidents it never reached a conclusion. It just petered out. It is life on patrol. Mexico's crazy violence levels are simply out of control.
With murder rates higher than at any point since the government started counting, it was clear before we set out that joining a police patrol would be unusual.
In fact, outside of a war zone I have never seen anything like it. The police are in full combat gear and heavily armed.
There are four trucks of them and in support an even better armed marine unit in case things turn really nasty.
We are in Acapulco, but outside of the main city it quickly becomes very rural. Out here the gangs are in charge, out here the rule of the gun, not the law, governs everything.
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Laura Holt and some bankers had a good time there as mentioned in Vintage Steele.
That’s as close as I care to venture.
I’ve only been there once, around that time. It was a nice, self-contained resort. Even back then, they said anyone venturing to town should be cautious. Now it sounds more like a no-go zone.
Lots more than this
http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/travel/ct-mexico-tourism-violence-20171030-story.html
Las Brisas in Acapulco was one of the finest hotels on earth, but that was thirty years ago. The disintegration of Acapulco is truly sad.
Funky!
Back in the mid 80’s I spent two weeks in Acapulco staying in a villa owned by a doctor friend of my brother-in-law.....
1 for 3. It was killed by gangs, who were given means to acquire and motive to use guns by the criminalization of drugs. Notice that nobody's shooting up resorts over the addictive, mind-altering drug alcohol.
And what happened?
I got sun burned, hung over a lot and my nephew came down with chicken pox..........just a normal vacation.
“So basically - it is a sh!thole...
When you look south of our Southern Border, everything all the way down to Tierra del Fuego is one kind of a $hit hole or another, and with minor occasional short-term exceptions, it’s ALWAYS been that way. People are always fleeing from one country to another down there to escape the current tyrant, then back again to flee the new one in their “new home country.” To complete your analysis, you have only to look eastward to South America’s “Sister $hit hole” Continent, Africa, with it’s major boil, The Middle East. Taking it another step, you can add in India, literally the biggest $hit hole country in the world where 48% of its citizens routinely crap in public. But hey cows are sacred there and they $hit outdoors too, so I guess it makes sense to them to do what their sacred cows do!
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>> “When you look south of our Southern Border, everything all the way down to Tierra del Fuego is one kind of a $hit hole or another, and with minor occasional short-term exceptions, it’s ALWAYS been that way.” <<
Not so!
The early migrants had orderly societies that were productive, wealthy, and artistic. (Inca, Maya, etc.)
It was the Jesuits that followed Colombus that made them tyranical $hitholes.
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Beautiful and friendly, and full of global bankers.
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When women travel they should carry a small purse full of garbage, and keep their important things in a belt under their clothes.
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bfl
Mexican culture sucks...that’s why the place is a hellhole.
Ha!
You should delete that from your memory bank. I’m terribly sorry that I resurrected it from some cell deep in your medulla oblongata.
Yep, we’ve actively discouraged all family travel to MX.
My sister and husband are flaming liberals. Back in the '80s they bought a place in San Felipe on the Eastern side in Baja. It was close to where they lived in Southern CA.
They LOVED the area and gushed about it every time I saw them. They went down every other weekend as well as spending all their vacations there. My sister was always on me (I also lived in the area then) for going up to Canada on holiday when Mexico was only 100 miles away, and implied I was a racist.
I eventually got fed up with CA politics and moved, but kept in touch. About 10 years later we drove out for a visit. In casual conversation, I asked when they were going down to San Felipe and the air chilled considerably. "We don't go down there any more." I asked about the house and was curtly told "We sold ir." They never said why they left and it was obvious they didn't want to talk about it, but I can imagine it was something like a daylight burglary or a robbery.
Barbados is great
Super duper
Just avoid Georgetown
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