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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Yeah. It was something like that with my sister. They build quite a ways down the coast and kept their “smaller” yacht there, which they also sold. A 65 footer.
They are VERY conservative and Christian and actually liked the area to a degree, but they are prudent and spot sea changes pretty quickly. They would fly down there in their Citation and just felt the need to get everything back to the relative safety of Montana.
“The early migrants had orderly societies that were productive, wealthy, and artistic. (Inca, Maya, etc.)”
Well, I guess I should have qualified the word “always” to mean in modern times. I have lived in California for all of my 77 years. As a consequence, I have seen the whole unfolding scenario with respect to illegal and legal migration into this state from the south. And since we are a direct link to all the territory to the south of us, I have always had an understanding of the “modern” Central and South American “societies.” In this hemisphere, there are really only two countries that were “founded” by Northern Europeans, the US and Canada. All the rest were “colonized” by Southern Europeans. I believe that there is a fundamental difference between those to segments of European Society, and it has manifested itself by the kinds of governments that each has created. And right now, we are seeing the adverse effects of the “southern europeans progeny” here in this country. Hispanics do not have the same cultural values as those of us who come from the founding stock of this country. They are bringing with themselves the notion of the “free $hit society.” America’s founders were self-reliant people. They are being replaced by the “free $hitters” who are showing up here from South of the Border and from the rest of the world as well. We should be well aware that if they achieve a majority here, America will become just another so so Socialist state at best.
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The “free $hit society” here came from those same Jesuits.
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Cartagena, Colombia is quickly becoming the new Cancun.
“The “free $hit society” here came from those same Jesuits.”
Yeah, I’m down on the Jesuits too. They kicked Jerry Brown out of their order and so he turned to being “our governor” for the rest of his worthless life. And they are also probably the reason Jerry’s worthless father Edmund G. (Pat) Brown wasn’t wearing a condom the night Jerry was conceived.
Good point but I wouldn’t lay it to the Democrats. I think they just just tools behind the real movers and shakers. But Mexico is being ruined by a host of factors the US should carefully consider: corrupt politicians who use the national treasury to reward their allies and stay in power, little respect for the rule of law, a struggling middle class victimized by the government and gangs, police personally targeted by wrongdoers, identity politics based on gang membership, government control of natural resources development, government encouragement of lawbreaking illegals coming to the United States, racial animosity between light-skinned and dark-skinned citizens, political appeasement of criminal groups, ad infinitum. And every one of those factors is increasing here. Aside from the weather, there is probably little difference between Acapulco and Detroit, between Cabo San Lucas and Chicago, between Cancun and Baltimore.
When I went to the small Puerto Rican island of Viecques, I brought my gun. I may have broken the law, I dunno.
And don’t care.
It gave me a feeling of security in that shithole.
I spent a lawless booze-filled week in Cancun for spring break back in 1991. It was awesome. My one and only trip to Mexico.No desire whatsoever to go back.
No kidding... the murder rate there has gone off the charts in the past 5 years. My neighbours were there a month or so ago and this was when a bunch of bodies were found hanging off a bridge.
I was in Mexico a month ago to visit a plant. The deal I gave them was that the company had to provide an armed escort for me from the second I got off the plane and all the time I was there until I got back. Overall, it worked out fine.
The cruise lines no longer go to Acapulco or Puerto Vallarta because of the danger.
Just imagine how much is lost to the Mexican economy when ships of that size no longer disgorge passengers for a few hours of shopping?
Vicente Fox should be challenged on these facts. He is a total idiot. Someone told me that HE now lives in the USA? Anyone confirm that?
Liberals tell us that the solution to violence and crime in America is a total gun ban.
Mexico has a total gun ban.
Violence and crime is off the charts.
The societies you mention, along with he Aztecs, were productive and artistic, and wealthy for some but not the masses. Their religions all involved human sacrifice and that might require some tyranny. The Spanish were appalled by the human sacrifice and attempted to eradicate the native religions. The fact that poverty continues for the masses should not be blamed entirely upon the Jesuits.
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Jesuits don’t mind human sacrifice; they practice it themselves.
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