vacationing in Mexico - safe for the family?

[Anonymous]

Food for Thought

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/seven_shot_in_mexican_spring_break_1j8wNJLl9A1CavREFNcbRO

[Anonymous]

You all are funny!

[Anonymous]

destinations like the Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica have far higher homicide rates (36, 42 and 52 per 100,000)

[Anonymous]

According to FBI crime statistics, 4.8 Americans per 100,000 were murdered in the US in 2010. The US State Department reports that 120 Americans of the 5.7 million who visited Mexico last year were murdered, which is a rate of 2.1 of 100,000 visitors. Regardless of whether they were or weren’t connected to drug trafficking, which is often not clear, it’s less than half the US national rate.

[Anonymous]

Washington, dc and Mexico have pretty much the same rate. New Orleans is double Mexico's

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to FBI crime statistics, 4.8 Americans per 100,000 were murdered in the US in 2010. The US State Department reports that 120 Americans of the 5.7 million who visited Mexico last year were murdered, which is a rate of 2.1 of 100,000 visitors. Regardless of whether they were or weren’t connected to drug trafficking, which is often not clear, it’s less than half the US national rate.

I got no bone in this debate, but I will note that your statistical comparison does not appear to account for the length of time in each place. If we accepts your wording, you are comparing a full 52 weeks of the Americans' life, regardless of location, with the period of time of the average American visit to Mexico, which even considering ex-pats who live there all year, I would assume to be lower than two weeks. If you multiply the two weeks times 26 to equalize, you would see that the risk was way higher during those two weeks than the average risk of Americans in general.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
According to FBI crime statistics, 4.8 Americans per 100,000 were murdered in the US in 2010. The US State Department reports that 120 Americans of the 5.7 million who visited Mexico last year were murdered, which is a rate of 2.1 of 100,000 visitors. Regardless of whether they were or weren’t connected to drug trafficking, which is often not clear, it’s less than half the US national rate.



I got no bone in this debate, but I will note that your statistical comparison does not appear to account for the length of time in each place. If we accepts your wording, you are comparing a full 52 weeks of the Americans' life, regardless of location, with the period of time of the average American visit to Mexico, which even considering ex-pats who live there all year, I would assume to be lower than two weeks. If you multiply the two weeks times 26 to equalize, you would see that the risk was way higher during those two weeks than the average risk of Americans in general

Well you would have to compare the murder rate while on vacation of Americans- some thing like the rate of murder for all Americans while on vacation per 100,000 vs the murder rate for American while on vacation in Mexico per 100k. I think it would be nice to see some socio-economic class break down to sort out the American drug runners who are murdered while on "vacation".

[Anonymous]

For those still wondering:

Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun

Wed, Apr 3 2013
Seven killed in northern Mexican bar shooting

CANCUN, Mexico, April 14 | Sun Apr 14, 2013 7:22pm EDT
(Reuters) - Six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state's deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks.

[Anonymous]

Nothing like basking in the sun, drink pina colada's and having heads and torso's float by in the ocean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing like basking in the sun, drink pina colada's and having heads and torso's float by in the ocean

Or going to watch a friend run a marathon and get your leg blown off.

[Anonymous]

Difference is is that in Mexico, it was the police and military doing the killings...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Difference is is that in Mexico, it was the police and military doing the killings...

Source - please.

[Anonymous]

You can't compare the us and Mexican homicide rates. The vast majority of homicides in the us occur in sketchy areas that we would never venture into. US tourists in Mexico are being targeted on buses, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nothing like basking in the sun, drink pina colada's and having heads and torso's float by in the ocean

Nothing like finally learning how to use an apostrophe correctly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:. US tourists in Mexico are being targeted on buses, etc.

Source - please.