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For the average tourist who stays within resort areas in Mexico and doesn't go looking for trouble, the chance of running into trouble is extremely slim.
Many people here in Canada base their decisions not to travel to Mexico on what is being reported as happening ON the resort, not off it. Personally, I don't care how slim the chances are of something happening to you on the resorts there. Mexico does not offer anything that can't be found at plenty of other destinations where there is no risk at all.
Many people here in Canada base their decisions not to travel to Mexico on what is being reported as happening ON the resort, not off it. Personally, I don't care how slim the chances are of something happening to you on the resorts there. Mexico does not offer anything that can't be found at plenty of other destinations where there is no risk at all.
Remember all those news reports of the huge riots in Athens last year? Syntagma Square can not physically hold the 50,000 people rumored to be rioting there. We were in Athens early last summer, during the second election. There was more excitement over the fact that Lynyrd Skynyrd was in town than politics.
My point is that the media loves to over blow a story. Someone getting their wallet pickpocketed turns into an armed robbery by the time they manipulate it. I'm not denying that the Spanish tourists were victims, but it also seems that they didn't do a whole lot to keep themselves safe, either.
By the way, crime isn't exclusive to Mexico, there's plenty of it in Canada as well.
My point is that the media loves to over blow a story. Someone getting their wallet pickpocketed turns into an armed robbery by the time they manipulate it. I'm not denying that the Spanish tourists were victims, but it also seems that they didn't do a whole lot to keep themselves safe, either.
If this is commonplace everywhere, why do Canadian news sources seem to report on Mexico more than anywhere else. I don't for a minute believe is is a conspiracy by the Canadian news agency to pick on Mexico exclusively.
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By the way, crime isn't exclusive to Mexico, there's plenty of it in Canada as well.
This is simply the most ridiculous retort I have heard when discussing corruption and crime in Mexico.
If this is commonplace everywhere, why do Canadian news sources seem to report on Mexico more than anywhere else. I don't for a minute believe is is a conspiracy by the Canadian news agency to pick on Mexico exclusively.
This is simply the most ridiculous retort I have heard when discussing corruption and crime in Mexico.
About 35 years ago I went to Central Medico, Copper Canyon, on a train. I went with two friends. We speak limited Spanish. I wanted to see where my Grandmother was born. This was a fun trip. We were perfectly safe. No danger. Except when I ate a very hot chili pepper, I was crying and had a runny nose for a half hour or more.
We stayed mainly with people in our church, LDS. We had a great trip. Met some lifelong friends on that trip. One family even sent their teenage son to come live with us for a year of high school.
This was perfectly safe....I don't think I would even think of such a trip now in Central Mexico. Three young girls travelling alone...crazy.
These were found rather quickly and do not include the several Canadians that have gone "missing" while on vacation in Mexico, nor does it include Canadian ex-pats that have been slain in their own homes while living there. Seriously... You have to be painfully naive to think Mexico is a safe place to visit.
It seems YOUR media is taking the "head in the sand" approach.
What kind of moron flashes around money and then arbitrarily lets someone into their hotel room. Anyone with common sense knows that if you didn't call the hotel for something (room service, extra towels, etc.) that you verify with the desk that the person knocking at your door is legitimate before opening it--even in American and Canadian hotels.
These were found rather quickly and do not include the several Canadians that have gone "missing" while on vacation in Mexico, nor does it include Canadian ex-pats that have been slain in their own homes while living there. Seriously... You have to be painfully naive to think Mexico is a safe place to visit.
Yup, three in six years--there's no evidence that the third one was anything more than a drunk falling off a balcony. A real crime wave, eh?
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It seems YOUR media is taking the "head in the sand" approach.
Nope, there just isn't a story. There's more crime against tourists in Miami than Mexico--most of it is preventable if people would have some common sense.
People in the US seem to have some kind of distorted idea about Mexico that everybody rides around on burros and wears sombreros. Go to google maps and pick any fair-sized city in Mexico and do a street view and you will be amazed how Mexican cities, look very, very much like American cities.
As with the mean streets of the South Side of Chicago, or Detroit or even Toledo, for that matter, there are bad people who kill other people for money, or drugs or *whatever*. I do not believe, on a per capita basis that Mexico is any worse than any large city in the United States.
It serves companies like Time Warner (who own CNN) to report of these heinous crimes that are occurring in Mexico, so that tourism dollars will be spent on vacations to Disneyworld and other companies owned by them rather than Acapulco.
I have a cousin that lives in Mexico and several other people I know who are living or have lived there in the past. Rurally, it may be considered a 3rd world country, but in the urban centers, it is virtually indistinguishable from the United States.
People in the US seem to have some kind of distorted idea about Mexico that everybody rides around on burros and wears sombreros. Go to google maps and pick any fair-sized city in Mexico and do a street view and you will be amazed how Mexican cities, look very, very much like American cities.
As with the mean streets of the South Side of Chicago, or Detroit or even Toledo, for that matter, there are bad people who kill other people for money, or drugs or *whatever*. I do not believe, on a per capita basis that Mexico is any worse than any large city in the United States.
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It serves companies like Time Warner (who own CNN) to report of these heinous crimes that are occurring in Mexico, so that tourism dollars will be spent on vacations to Disneyworld and other companies owned by them rather than Acapulco.
Check your facts, CNN/Time Warner does not own ABC/Disney. They are actually in direct competition with them. Tiem Warner has divested itself of theme parks and all other non-media (TV/movies/music/magazines/etc.) ventures.
I won't give that country a dime until they clean up their drug and crime issues. Florida or the Carribean for me
Try Hawaii. that is my favorite.
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