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- boobs0
I was there with my family just after Xmas. Near Cancun. Our taxi, with a woman, a man, and a 7 year old girl, was stopped by machine gun wielding soldiers at 2am and searched!
- no worries, unless you got drugs on you.akrokdesign
- notice he said "on you" if they were "in you" you are fine till you shit them out :)Meeklo
- hah. they search the CAR, not YOU.akrokdesign
- DrBombay0
this is a sure fire way for that republican wall to go up.
- totallyMeeklo
- You mean a wall made out of republicans? i'm all for it!!!locustsloth
- Kolor0
My coworker just got back from Mexico. She use to go with her family for over 18 years, and said things have changed. She never plans on going back again. Prostitution has gone up, and people were trying to pick fights with her 70 year old father. This was around Cancun.
- VectorMasked0
It's way too exagerated.
This stuff has always happened. it's no news. Only difference now is the American media (mostly) is focusing way too much in this.Anybody going to any town that's not right in the border will be ok.
If I could go to a beach or Cuernavaca, Guadalajara or other centric towns I'd do it in a heart beat.
Plus... the recession is being felt in Mexico and the US dollar would do wonders for tourists.
- yeah 15 pesos per 1 dollar.akrokdesign
- See! it ain't that bad. bring 500 bucks and you're set for a week! ;o)VectorMasked
- radiculture0
Yeah, this stuff is getting crazy. would love to hear more about it from people who are experiencing things firsthand. There was a documentary on Current tv last week but I missed it. I am getting married in Mexico in July... traveling with tons of friends and family. We're completely safe because we'll be at a resort, but I'm still interested.- you are probably not going to get married in TIjuana, so you should be fineMeeklo
- fooler20
5 human heads discovered in ice chests in central Mexico
- mg330
- This was actually on morning tv.Jnr_Madison
- http://images.google…Salarrue
- is that Gina Gershon circa Showgirls?Ambushstudio
- and is that Benny Hill?Meeklo
- pocho0
We used to go to Baja twice a month at least...it is pretty creepy down there now. That said, if you go looking for trouble you will find it...guaranteed. I won't stay in Rosarito for now.
- Ambushstudio0
it ended on 94, but yeah we had war for around 35 years...
- GetRefresh0
^
Guatemala has been in a civil war for 30-40 years.
- Ambushstudio0
Guatemala is just as bad... more than 400 woman murdered in 2008 alone.
- rylamar0
My friends in El Paso say it's not even worth going to Juarez anymore. It used to be no big deal to go to Juarez to see friends, hang out, shop, etc. but that has pretty much stopped. The street vendors are really hurting in downtown El Paso at the border because they depend on the Mexicans coming over to shop.
When you have a whole city that puts themselves under curfew to not leave their house after dark, without police telling them to, then you know it's bad.
The cartels get on the police radio frequencies and call them out by name and say, "Lead or money?" in Spanish. They don't have a choice but to be bought by the cartels because you see what has happened to the ones who aren't cooperating.
- fooler20
my parents live in New Mexico, it's cleaner and safer than the Old Mexico.
- boobs0
I was travelling down there just after Christmas, with my wife and 7 year old daughter. We were on a severely delayed flight, and got into Cancun really late.
So at two in the morning, our taxi gets stopped by machine gun wearing Army guys. We had to all get out while the car was searched. So that sucked.
- happens allll the time.linearch
- happened to me too. not a bad thing and about the money. tolls are robbed all the time.zenmasterfoo
- winnie_the_shit0
Avoid a third?
Doesn't America already have a war on drugs?
Oh.. wait.. that's on it's own citizens.. my mistake.
- if it's not "pot" then it needs to go.Hurley
- Just Kill Em.winnie_the_shit
- winnie smoke the ganj!! you've been outed sir.zenmasterfoo
- Hurley0
I think we need to send about 10 predator drones down there to scout, track then bomb the cartels. What I find interesting is that mexico is just trying to protect the cities instead of trying to squash the cartel. It's like, if you don't go here we won't go there. Utter BS.
- better guns solve everything.. Just look at Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan as an example.winnie_the_shit
- Every cop or official that talks about taking down the cartels gets killed. They just killed a freakin GENERAL a while ago.pocho
- yeah it's not that easy when the cartels are the ones in charge. :(sea_sea
- akrokdesign0
la times cover it pretty good...
http://projects.latimes.com/mexi…
- Hurley0
- < sick. i am not watching that.akrokdesign
- it is so bad..don't watch it unless you want to here a guy breath out of his chest cavity with no headHurley
- what the fucking hell is wrong with you man?jevad
- LMAO---nothing...ser...Hurley
- it's not like Hurley killed anyone. relax.reinitialize
- vespa0
that's a staggering number :(