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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t go with my kids. [/quote]
+1. It's sad what is happening in Mexico now. It's a beautiful country with amazing beaches and the people are so nice. Riviera Maya used to be untouchable but the cartel violence and overall corruption has gotten so out of control it's everywhere now. And, all the reports of people getting extorted at local hospitals, poisoned by bootleg alcohol at resorts... I won't go back until they get their crap together.

Those saying it's equally safe as American cities are wrong...[b]it's less safe because they have very little rule of law and the entire system is corrupt. [/b]Their police are much lower resourced and less capable of public safety.[/quote]

Not quite.  There are many inner city areas in our country that feel unsafe to the people who live there because the police do not bother to solve murders (or are under resourced to do so, take your pick) and a contained culture of lawlessness is allowed to go on and no one cares, including the police.  There is a great book called Ghettoside:  a true story of murder in America.  An enlightening read.  You just don't experience it.

The Mexican government and the business in tourist areas have a lot invested in keeping the tourist areas safe.  No it's not completely perfect, as it's not perfect here either.  [/quote]

The "there are murders in US cities, too" argument is just so disingenuous.  Here's the list of the 50 most violent cities in the world: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-violent-cities-in-the-world-2018-3

A quote from the article:

"Of the 50 cities on the list, 42 are in Latin America, including 17 in Brazil, 12 in Mexico, and five in Venezuela. Colombia had three, Honduras had two, and El Salvador, Guatemala, and Jamaica all had one." The highest ranking US cities on the list are Baltimore, at 21, with 55 homicides per 100,000 people and St. Louis at 13 with 65.83.  Acapulco is #3 with 107 murders per 100,000 people, and Los Cabos is #1 with 111 murders per 100,000 people.  (1) I'm not going to vacation in inner City Baltimore or St. Louis. That said, the murder rate in the most dangerous Mexican cities is double the rate in our most dangerous cities.  (2) Both Mexican cities are resort areas (or at least they used to be). Mazatlan is also on the list.  I vacationed in Acapulco in the 1980's and it was lovely.  Most of the most dangerous cities are border towns or coastal towns.  If you think about the nature of the drug trade, that makes sense.  There have been recent incidents of violence in Quintana Roo.

By all means, go, if you want to.  But don't justify it by saying that "nowhere is perfect."  There are degrees of "perfection."   [/quote]

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