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Let me think about this, whats good about Mexico? as far as i know its full of Cocaine, beheaded gringos and sunburnt americans on holiday.
 

Bryan said:
Let me think about this, whats good about Mexico? as far as i know its full of Cocaine, beheaded gringos and sunburnt americans on holiday.
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all I can say as a guy who lived 100km away... I wouldn't visit Northern Mexico for the life of me. most people there are just wonderful human beings, it's the unsavory types that make the worst American criminals look like choir boys that terrify me.

we had 90% of the best Mexico could offer with only 10% the crime in Southern Arizona. was content to leave it like that.
 
Lived there for about 4 years during my childhood. This was during a time when the narcos didn't control half the country...their biggest worry was inflation. It was a lovely time, and is an amazing country with amazing people. Even back then, the corruption was present at small municipal levels but mostly limited to bribes, not murder...certainly drugs were around (it was the late 70s, early 80s) but there was no real factions among the drug lords and very limited criminal-on-citizen violence; cocaine transport from Colombia only started in the mid 80's and money really didn't start flowing til the early 90's. Fast forward to now and you've got huge and very open problems due to a combination of low-pay government/police jobs, poverty--which is the best recruiting tool wealthy narcos could hope to have, a poor education system, and countries like the US, which unofficially "sponsors" the drug war due to its massive consumption and its general refusal to legalize drugs--all drugs--at the federal level. What's odd, however, is the level of shock-tactic violence that recent drug cartels have used. It's a bizarre form of one-upmanship when cartels "compete" to engage in ever-more violent acts. And the narcos have no scrupples about killing innocent citizens as a means to derail federal anti-drug tactics. Politicians, journalists, even clergy are all targeted if they have public anti-drug sentiments. Unlike, say, racketeering by the US mafia, which is usually on the down-low, the mexican cartels have no problem with letting their conflict spill into the streets and national and international news. This open strategy is very effective on derailing the entire economy...just consider that no one here, including me, would really want to vacation there, or much less do business there. Even if much of the country is actually safe, the perception the cartels convey is that it is not. Either way, very sad for a country that has incredible cultural and natural beauty.
 
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