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PLAYAS DE ROSARITO, Mexico -- Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego.
We got pulled over on our break by Mexican cops, they seemed pleased with their $20 and we went on with our lives. The problem is that tourists don't have the time to fight fines in a different country which can for the most part, are only a few dollars. In Mexico, if you are pulled over and a ticket is assigned your license is also taken in the process. People just don't want to deal with that. I went to three beaches, no problem with crime.
More and more --- I think people should take the chances if they want to -- as long as they know what the problems are. If they get into trouble -- too bad.
People get carjacked and raped or killed all the time in the US too. The flashing lights? Yeah.. that's bad. But it's only a matter of time before we see it happen here too. A few years ago, I remember reading something in the paper about men posing as police officers assaulting young women. At the time, I had just gotten my license and gotten orders from my parents to call the police if I was ever pulled over to make sure it was legit. You're not in a position to do that in Mexico but hey, it's not just Mexico.
I'm not trying to say Mexico doesn't have crime. It does. But generally, those targetted for crime are almost asking for it- pirated taxis, wearing every piece of jewlery they own, flaunting being an American, etc. Yes, the flashing lights on the highway is scary, but not something that's going to scare me out of going to Mexico any more than the man who recently kidnapped and murdered a girl off of my favorite trail in the Ga mountains is going to stop me from hiking.
People get carjacked and raped or killed all the time in the US too. The flashing lights? Yeah.. that's bad. But it's only a matter of time before we see it happen here too. A few years ago, I remember reading something in the paper about men posing as police officers assaulting young women. At the time, I had just gotten my license and gotten orders from my parents to call the police if I was ever pulled over to make sure it was legit. You're not in a position to do that in Mexico but hey, it's not just Mexico.
I'm not trying to say Mexico doesn't have crime. It does. But generally, those targetted for crime are almost asking for it- pirated taxis, wearing every piece of jewlery they own, flaunting being an American, etc. Yes, the flashing lights on the highway is scary, but not something that's going to scare me out of going to Mexico any more than the man who recently kidnapped and murdered a girl off of my favorite trail in the Ga mountains is going to stop me from hiking.
WILL THE OVER 300 PEOPLE, mostly females, that have been kidnapped and killed in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo, and El Paso, Texas, in the past three years, and whose husbands, wives, and families are desperatedly trying to get justice through the Mexican/American authorities to find the sociopathic killer/s still at large, STOP you?
WILL THE OVER 300 PEOPLE, mostly females, that have been kidnapped and killed in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo, and El Paso, Texas, in the past three years, and whose husbands, wives, and families are desperatedly trying to get justice through the Mexican/American authorities to find the sociopathic killer/s still at large, STOP you?
A lot of people don't really think what happened to them counts as crime because they were poor young women -- maquila worker types and so they figure they were asking for it.
The murder rate of young males in those border towns is actually far higher than that of females. I think it's commonly accepted that the males killed had to be gang types or involved in drug deals.
WILL THE OVER 300 PEOPLE, mostly females, that have been kidnapped and killed in the border towns of Nuevo Laredo, and El Paso, Texas, in the past three years, and whose husbands, wives, and families are desperatedly trying to get justice through the Mexican/American authorities to find the sociopathic killer/s still at large, STOP you?
The American men looking for a quick score in the sex slave trade wouldn't be interested in me, so no, I'd go to Nuevo Laredo too.
The American men looking for a quick score in the sex slave trade wouldn't be interested in me, so no, I'd go to Nuevo Laredo too.
There is nothing to indicate those are American men killing those women. Nothing.
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