Crocodile attack - Cancun Club Med Lagoon
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Anonymous
| People on this board are hostile in their defense of Mexico. It’s bizarre. If you don’t care if we don’t go there, why spend the effort to hop on every thread in ferocious defense. You seem to care a lot. |
Anonymous
exactly |
Anonymous
are you joking |
Anonymous
| I follow state department travel advisories. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/mexico-travel-advisory.html I love Mexico, speak Spanish and would go often. I grew up going yearly. Just go to South America instead. |
Anonymous
Turks and Caicos says hi, as do their corrupt police! |
Anonymous
As if the police in the U.S. aren't corrupt! |
Anonymous
The resort should have signs everywhere and make it really clear how to avoid such tragedies. Parents can’t leave toddlers alone in the south near freshwater. A toddler was killed at Disney by an alligator. Nature is not a joke. |
Anonymous
The shootings? Are you in America? We have those, you know. |
Anonymous
If you’re American, this is so funny. 😆 |
Anonymous
The American crocodile inhabits brackish or saltwater areas and can be found in ponds, coves, and creeks in mangrove swamps. |
Anonymous
Lol I had friends who would swim at night in golf course ponds and lagoons to get golf balls. There were some really big gators in those ponds and they never had problems. When they do have problems it’s because people think it’s cool to feed them. As soon as these animal association food with human they track you. |
Anonymous
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The delusion is strong in this thread. The murder rate in Mexico is 4.5x the US per capita (6.5 per 100k for the US, and 29 in Mexico). Mexico is run by drug cartels. If the tourist areas are safe at all, it is because the cartels profit from keeping them that way.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R41576.pdf According to one Mexican think tank that publishes an annual assessment, the top five cities in the world for violence in 2019 were in Mexico.1 Increasing violence, intimidation of Mexican politicians in advance of elections, and assassinations of journalists and media personnel have continued to raise alarm. From 2017 through 2019, a journalist was murdered nearly once a month on average, leading to Mexico’s status as one of the world’s most dangerous countries to practice journalism.2 In the run-up to the 2018 local and national elections, some 37 mayors, former mayors, or mayoral candidates were killed, and murders of nonelected public officials rose above 500.3 Over many years, Mexico’s brutal drug-trafficking-related violence has been dramatically punctuated by beheadings, public hanging of corpses, and murders of dozens of journalists and officials. Violence has spread from the border with the United States into Mexico’s interior. Organized crime groups have splintered and diversified their crime activities, turning to extortion, kidnapping, oil theft, human smuggling, sex trafficking, retail drug sales, and other illicit enterprises. These crimes often are described as more “parasitic” for local communities and populations inside Mexico, degrading a sense of citizen security. The violence has flared in the Pacific states of Michoacán and Guerrero, in the central states of Guanajuato and Colima, and in the border states of Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, and Baja California, where Mexico’s largest border cities are located (for map of Mexico, see Figure 1). Drug traffickers exercised significant territorial influence in parts of the country near drug production hubs and along drug trafficking routes during the six-year administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), much as they had under the previous president. Although homicide rates declined early in Peña Nieto’s term, total homicides rose by 22% in 2016 and 23% in 2017, reaching a record level. In 2018, homicides in Mexico rose above 33,000 for a national rate of 27 per 100,000 people. According to the U.S. Department of State, Mexico exceeded 34,500 intentional homicides in 2019 for a national rate of 29 per 100,000.4 Thus, for each of the most recent three years, records were set and then eclipsed. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/04/crime-and-anti-crime-security-policy-in-mexico-in-2020/ Meanwhile, hideous murders continued taking place in Mexico, including of women, and of children. At least 3,455 women were murdered in Mexico in 2020. Although the data are yet incomplete, this averaged ten women per day. Many were murdered because of their gender. Some of the femicides were especially gruesome. Others involved young girls, such as Fatima Aldrighetti. At least 1,117 girls and boys were murdered in Mexico in 2020. Yet the violence against children and the femicides generated little sympathy or policy focus from President López Obrador. His dismissive attitude toward the protection and rights of women set off marches and demonstrations, including the March 9 “Day Without Women” in Mexico. The Covid-19 lockdowns too further exacerbated violence against women. Neither the femicides, nor the slaughter of the Le Barón family or the way the Sinaloa Cartel in 2019 turned the city of Culiacán into a war zone to intimidate the Mexican government into releasing Ovidio Guzmán López (the son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and one of the Sinaloa Cartel’s leaders) shook President López Obrador out of his rhetoric of sympathy toward the criminals. Despite a resurrection of high-value targeting, the Mexican president persisted with his narrative of “hugs, not bullets” for criminals. He has continued to minimize and undermine policing approaches, pinning hopes for crime reduction on vague anti-crime socio-economic programs. He has persisted with this policy orientation even as the Covid-19 pandemic decimated the Mexican economy, increased unemployment, and forced many into poverty and susceptibility to criminal recruitment and participation in illicit economies. The systematic refusal of the López Obrador’s administration to get tough with violent criminal groups and the continuing signaling to that effect was epitomized in March 2020 when López Obrador traveled to Sinaloa to shake the hand of El Chapo’s mother. Such signaling persisted throughout 2020 even though almost 500 police officers were killed in Mexico last year. |
Anonymous
| Mexico is so ghetto. I live in Los Angeles and you couldn’t pay me to go there. |
Anonymous
And you couldn’t pay most people on the East Coast to move to LA. So trashy! |
Anonymous
What? Your friends are idiots and apparently so are you. |