Mexico travel and protection

[HoneyBadger]

Like Mexico?

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I wouldn't voluntarily go within 100 miles of the border.

[HoneyBadger]

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I wouldn't voluntarily go within 100 miles of the border.

And this is exactly why:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-Texas.html

• Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them with nooses around their necks
• One reads 'silver or lead' in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels' bribes or die
• Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north

[Great-Kazoo]

And this is exactly why:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-Texas.html

One could always vacation in Santa Barbara.

[hatidua]

While my own Mexico trips have been curtailed in the past couple of years for a variety of reasons, I don't think most tourist areas of Mexico are any more dangerous than similar destinations in other countries. My wife and her sister have not had any issues with trips by themselves to Cabo san Lucas (staying in the corridor, not in town), and I'd not hesitate to go anywhere in Yucatan or Quintana Roo (Merida area or Cancun to the Belizean border). Baja Sur is pretty quiet as well.

All that said, the police use any excuse to extort money from gringos. As much as I like Mexico, I try to limit any item or activity which would give them an opportunity to drum up some 'offense' for which I have to pay money to get out of. Guns/knives are not part of my Mexican travel experience.

[rbeau30]

I haven't seen all that I can see in my own country yet, so I have no need to go to another. It also makes my SF86 exponentially more complicated.

I will point out a bit of logic hatuida that personally I hear all the time that I disagree with. " I don't think most tourist areas of Mexico are any more dangerous than similar destinations in other countries. " All the time I hear this argument about CCW (one example of this logic). "Well nothing has happened to me before in the parking lot." or "Why do you need to carry your pistol everywhere you go?" I prefer to minimize my risk wherever I go. Taking my CCW takes minimal effort to greatly reduce my risk in everyday life. If a place goes to extreme measures to prevent me from taking simple measures to reduce my risk all while seriously INCREASING that risk, I then realize that I do not need to take such risks to give my business and money to that location.

But seriously, If you want to go to Mexico, go to mexico. Take pictures and post them, and show me what I am Missing!

Additional note: If you were able to even have a weapon to defend yourself with, if you needed to do so, you would probably be detained for a long time even in a justified self defense situation. They have very different laws and judicial system.

[DavieD55]

Perhaps the OP is going for business and not for fun?

[rbeau30]

Perhaps the OP is going for business and not for fun?

True.