"Mexico Safer than Headlines Indicate"

[azscubadude]

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[Brendon]

See that link thing?

The one that is blue and underlined? Yeah, that one.

It leads to a SOURCE, 'cause the Jax don't make schit up.

Ok, let me test these waters. The world is going to end 12-21-2012
2012 Warning article on the Mayan Prophecy of 2012
I guess since I have given you a link it must be true.
Oh heres one of many videos on youtube, holy shiaaat were going to die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJvW4y9ypTg

 

[annlaur]

"War on drugs" As of January 2011 with in 4 1/2 yrs to date appox-40,000 dead of which approx 2900 were foreiners. (thats from the mexican consulates office) I said Americans, sorry I usually associate foreiners in mexico as americans... My bad.

Surprising statement coming from someone who wrote this :

Considering my stays have not been limited to the US cities located within Mexicos border... I have spent months at a time there traveling to places most americans do not. […]

If you read the news and know the country a bit, you'll find out that many foreign victims of the traffickers are people from Central America on their way to the US.

 

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[ScubaSteve]

LOCK & LOAD

 

[Brendon]

Surprising statement coming from someone who wrote this :



If you read the news and know the country a bit, you'll find out that many foreign victims of the traffickers are people from Central America on their way to the US.

Well, all I can say is im not normal and I suffer from PTSD... Putting myself in harms ways seems to be therapeutic... I love Mexico almost more then the USA. I would never tell anyone not to visit, just be careful. Like I said before, its as safe or dangerous as you want it to be.

 

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Any reports on the crime rate in Bonaire?

 

[vladimir]

This thread and the article that inspired it are an exercise in spin-doctoring, careful phrasing, and selective statistical mining. How dangerous do the headlines make it seem? How dangerous is "the average traveler's hometown"? Is that any international traveler, a traveler to Mexico, or a traveler from Minneapolis to New Orleans? Why is Mexico City's "drug-related homicide rate" compared to DC's "overall homicide rate"? Is there some consolation in being killed in a non-drug-related incident? Is there some consolation in being killed outside the municipality?

I would visit Cozumel and the nearby destinations with no reservations about crime. I have been to some fairly dodgy destinations (which I do not consider the Yucatan among) in spite of State Department warnings, but lets please not sugarcoat it. Nobody should go to Mexico City, much less border towns, without being aware of the potential threat.

 

[Jax]

This thread and the article that inspired it are an exercise in spin-doctoring, careful phrasing, and selective statistical mining. How dangerous do the headlines make it seem? How dangerous is "the average traveler's hometown"? Is that any international traveler, a traveler to Mexico, or a traveler from Minneapolis to New Orleans? Why is Mexico City's "drug-related homicide rate" compared to DC's "overall homicide rate"? Is there some consolation in being killed in a non-drug-related incident? Is there some consolation in being killed outside the municipality?

I would visit Cozumel and the nearby destinations with no reservations about crime. I have been to some fairly dodgy destinations (which I do not consider the Yucatan among) in spite of State Department warnings, but lets please not sugarcoat it. Nobody should go to Mexico City, much less border towns, without being aware of the potential threat.

:w-t-f: A logical, well-reasoned approach . . . . what are YOU doing on the Internet?


Exactly, vladmir! It's just good sense.

On the other hand, I'm way more wary of parts of D.C.

 

[ggunn]

I'm sorry, but IMO saying that Mexico is a more dangerous place than Afghanistan or Syria is ludicrous.