The United States has issued a travel advisory for parts of Mexico. Drug violence (especially around Nuevo Laredo) is once again out of control. The travel advisory comes as emboldened traffickers have posted written death threats against government officials and their families – attaching them with ice picks to the bodies of murder victims, U.S. and Mexican officials said. Ok, WTF is wrong in Mexico. If drug dealers/cartels or whatever murdered an 'official' in America and put a death threat to other 'officials' on his body with an ice pick don't you think that entire city would be swarming with every police authority we could bring to bear? Does Mexico have an army or anything? What are they doing these days, don't they have the time to run up there and do something? [DMN]
So, if you're a drug dealer or gun runner (the latter often being Texans), you're likely to find yourself endangered in Mexico. Good!
When was the last time you heard of a tourist being killed in Mexico, other than the drunk Canadian hit by a car in Acapulco a few months ago? It's a very rare occurrence, and even the accidental foreign deaths make the papers.
This is bullshit, and has more to do with Mexico seeking other markets for its legitimate products and the U.S. dependence on mexican narcotics than on any new danger to foreigners. Tony Garza is now, and always was, an idiot.
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A) Mexico's army sucks.
B) Corruption reigns supreme in the land south of the border. Everyone important is being paid off.