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- bliznutty0
seems to me if drugs were legalized and the United States didn't force the poor, uneducated, and/or criminals into the black market then the problem here would be reduced dramatically..
prohibition forces supply to the black market without ever really reducing the demand for the illegal product - thus creating crime
this is socio-economics 101
- this sounds overly simplistic.bigtrickagain
- i don't think it will work.akrok
- Ramanisky20
Mexican authorities:
55 bodies found in a mine ventilation shaft used as a mass grave in the city of Taxco.
- kona0
just got back from riviera maya and didn't notice or see a thing. travelled into cancun and it was pleasant. the people were nice and respectful on the resort and the areas of town we visited. it's helpful when you know a little bit of spanish that i picked up from will smith's "going to miami" song.
- dude that's quite daring of you
unless everything I've heard & read is bullshitRamanisky2 - haha what did you say, "ay papi?"bigtrickagain
- "bienvenido a miami" (i replaced miami with mexico) and "mirra means look"kona
- dude that's quite daring of you
- VectorMasked0
"they just found 5 human heads in Guadalajara. " –akrokdesign
meanwhile, 16-year-old teens keep hanging out at 2 am, drinking beer and driving daddy's cars, while the next day they all go shopping to the mall and later split and some go to tony romas for lunch while a couple head to their usual indoor footie... like nothing ever happened.
People keep living their normal lives as usual. :o)
Some heads were found too in the town where I was vacationing in Mexico and life was as as normal as it's ever been. Had tons of fun. :o)
- jajaja. :-) i hear ya.akrokdesign
- guadalajara is seriously awesome. can't wait to go back and live there.sea_sea
- cuke4260
we were just in cacun - tulum last month 14 touristy americans and there were no incidents it was nice.
- akrok0
Thousands of people have gone missing in Mexico in the nearly 41/2 years since the drug war intensified. Increasingly their bodies are turning up in clandestine graves. In some cases they are snatched for forced labor for the drug gangs; sometimes they are held to extract ransom from relatives. Some are simply robbed and killed.
- < you said the secret word. ahhhhhhhhh....Douglas
- LOLMr_Mxyzptlk
- harharhar.Iogout
- 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
- BattleAxe0
http://www.amazon.com/Murder-Cit…
"The murder rate in Juárez rivals the most dangerous cities in the world and is more typical of regions where government has collapsed, an expert on homicides said.
The violence continued during the weekend, including a shootout involving the Mexican army that resulted in the arrest of three women and five men suspected in killings, extortion and arsons in the Valley of Juárez.
More than 5,300 people have been slain in the Juárez area since the start of a war between the Sinaloa and Juárez drug cartels in 2008.
There have been at least 15 homicides since Friday and more than 1,100 homicides this year alone in Juárez. By comparison, there has been one homicide in El Paso this year."
http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_15…
- fooler20
5 human heads discovered in ice chests in central Mexico
- fooler20
my parents live in New Mexico, it's cleaner and safer than the Old Mexico.
- 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
- 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
- duhsign0
I was just thinking about this an hour ago at lunch. Its so sad because mexican people are actually amazing, beautiful country and culture...
the reality is that there is a war going on down there and to call it a narco war is a cop out. Drugs are one major part of it. But the real problem are drug lords and their militias killing with impunity. They are attacking their own citizens and american citizens and they are fighting for control of the most valuable resource that is being traded in the region. They have deeply infiltrated our nation and are basically attacking our people with their product.
It just blows me away that obama and team are willing to ignore it.
- hektor9110
I have family living in the border with Texas. And let me tell you it is really bad guys. You see convoys of Tahoes, you see them with the high power riffles and the Ed Hardy caps, and they even have their trucks mark so they don't shoot each other when things go bad. Many people I know haven been kidnapped, many working people have to pay for protection that usually ends up without nothing. It is really bad at the border mostly. However, couple of months ago I was in Cuernavaca and we almost got kidnapped, thankfully our driver was a good driver. It is sad people..
- Actually it is 12.49 pesos per dollar.hektor911
- damn kid .. stay safeRamanisky2
- damn.akrok
- 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.
- Aper0