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I have been in McAllen and across the border to Reynosa so many times and always had a pleasant experience but it's been years ago. I hate to see news like this.
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I have fond memories of Reynosa as a kid from the 80s and 90s as I would visit every summer. It was my first experience with Mexico. I still have family there today but haven't been since 2010.
On my last visit, I thought to myself that it makes Tijuana look like Paris.
Its a rough place and many more murders have occurred there to innocent civilians because no one really controls the city. Word is cartels will randomly start shooting people in Reynosa as retribution for losing their leaders. But almost no reason for US residents/citizens without family in Reynosa to go there.
WTF can Mexico do to stop these cartel animals? I imagine people are sick of this already.
Most people have given up hope of them being stopped. They are like the bully who lives down the block, you find ways to make sure you avoid him as much as possible. Sometimes it means staying home for days, other times it means leaving town when the cartels put out the word that stuff will go down.
Amazing thing though is the people are resilient. Yes an innocent gets hit sometimes and on occasion some bystander dies. But as I have pointed out countless times here, a person not involved in the drug war should pay far more attention to the lack of safety for pedestrians and car accidents on the road in Mexico as a visitor is far more likely to be impacted by those than cartel violence. Sadly this isn't the case for Reynosa and a few other border towns, nor isolated towns in hot spots like rural Michoacan, Sinaloa or Guanajuato. However outsiders to these towns are quite rare, the only people who are at risk have lived in the areas and know who they should stay away from.
I've never been to McAllen but everytime I'm on an American retail website without my VPN on that is the default ship-to-store location. That is all I know about McCallen, it must have been crow fly shortest distance from Jalisco so if I ordered a router or toaster from Best Buy I could drive a few hundred miles to there to cross the border and pick it up. Bonus = there was a Best Buy in Guadalajara within walking distance, but that isn't a ship-to-store option.
Yes, I understand this is not a useful contribution to this thread.
Nonsense. This is a oversimplified way of summarizing a complex issue.
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