vacationing in Mexico - safe for the family?
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Anonymous
Do you really need a source for this???? Mexico's government- including their military- is known for their corruption. I wouldn't go to Mexico. A vacation where you have to wonder about your safety is not a vacation. Go someplace like Bemuda. |
Anonymous
Bermuda has a higher murder rate. |
Anonymous
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Yes I would like a source for the military/police killing US tourists as was implied in the post.
People went to Boston not fearing for their lives. |
Anonymous
| No way am I going to Mexico. I did in the past, but won't anymore. |
Anonymous
| Absolutely not safe. New to this thread. Listen to what those State Dept. people telling you. My husband went as a guest of the government last year to Mexico City. He was given two private body guards 24/7, driver and bullet-proof limo to and from airport. He was told never to leave the hotel, which he did not, and the body guards stayed with him the entire week whether outside his hotel room or by his side in the gym. The government at all levels is corrupt so if you think the police are going to help you if someone is kidnapped, you are sadly misinformed because most likely it is the police themselves involved in the kidnapping and bribery. If you must go for business, you must hire private cars and security. (and being stuck in a hotel - even a nice one - is no fun if you have two goons traveling with you everywhere). |
Anonymous
Do you mean this State Department warning: Quintana Roo: Cancun, Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya and Tulum are major cities/travel destinations in Quintana Roo -see attached map to identify their exact locations: No advisory is in effect. |
Anonymous
| There are cities in the us with higher murder rates. But you belief what you belief, so that's that. |
Anonymous
| I had two colleagues shot there (one fatally). There was a big shooting at airport there where many were killed. The bad guys were cops. Google it. |
Anonymous
| I know a family that was held up at gun-point (machine gun point) and robbed. Not fatal, but certainly not something you want to experience on vacation. |
Anonymous
I assume this is the incident you are referring to. I guess your colleagues were Mexican police. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57463446/cop-traitors-idd-in-mexico-airport-shooting/ |
Anonymous
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Mexico may be more dangerous than the U.S. overall, but not for Americans. 4.8 per 100,000 Americans were murdered in the U.S. in 2010, while only 2.1 of 100,000 visitors (who may or may not have been connected to drug trafficking) were murdered in Mexico.
Texans are twice as safe in Mexico than in Texas, and three times safer than in Houston. Texans aren’t the only state citizens that are safer in Mexico than their home state (yes, New Orlean’s homicide rate is triple that of Mexico’s national homicide rate). The vast majority of Mexico is not on the U.S. State Department’s travel warning. President Obama’s daughter Malia went to Oaxaca for her spring break, despite Texas’s alarmist travel warning. |
Anonymous
| No reason arguing. If you think it safe, go..... When you don't make it back, we told you so...... |
Anonymous
And when I do will you finally stop posting about all the incidents that are not happening in tourist areas. |
Anonymous
If you don't consider Cancun (latest beheading/murders) a tourist area then what is? |
Anonymous
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Unless I am a drug dealer this does not concern me.
Six suspected drug dealers were strangled to death and another was beheaded in Mexico’s resort city of Cancun on Sunday, in the latest violence to strike the city popular with foreign tourists. The victims were found on the patio of a house in a “low-income neighborhood” of the city, the Associated Press reported. |