Comments on: Don’t Go To Mexico

By: Lorna

Lorna — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 23:00:50 +0000

Glad the scary stories didn’t get to you and make you stay safe and secure, home on the couch, or we never would have met you. Happy Trails!

By: Jim Johnson

Jim Johnson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:18:55 +0000

Wow! I’m glad that you had such a wonderful trip through Mexico, especially considering all of these things that everyone said would happen to you. What did you do wrong to have such a good trip? Thanks for sharing your adventure!

By: Jaime

Jaime — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:36:53 +0000

In Cuernavaca Dec. 2009 I heard people being shot to death during the Beltran Leyva raid. In Nov. 2010 the Mexican Army under the direction of the PGR raided a well known narco “El Negro” in my apartment complex. During the raid they entered and took cash, computers and vehicles of other residents without warrants. Total thugs. Newspapers have reported similar thefts by the 24th Zona Militar. Nothing was done by the authorities contacted about this. Ask yourself if you really want to take the risk of going to Mexico.

By: Mark Tisdale

Mark Tisdale — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:47:32 +0000

I literally just stumbled onto your blog and this was the first post I read.

I don’t know your travel plans entirely but Mexico is just not the hell on earth that some people are convinced it is. I just got back from my third trip there! I haven’t seen northern Mexico since ’04, and I’ve heard the border is much worse than it was then, but most everyone I’ve talked to has said beyond that it’s at least as safe as some parts of the US. Honestly, on my last trip I started in Mexico City. I have no doubt there are some scary places there, but you know what, I lived for a decade in Atlanta and there were some freaking scary places there, too!

I have never felt as ill at ease in foreign countries I’ve visited as I have in the big cities of my own country. Nuff said.

By: Dawne

Dawne — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:03:37 +0000

I think what most people don’t realize is that Mexico is a ‘third world country’. You can blindly enjoy your all-inclusive holiday while the average Mexican family earns less in one year than what you’ve just spent. Only when you need medical attention do you realize how lucky you are to be just a visitor, because you could die in an ambulance that has to stop for gas that you’re asked pay for. Big business (and I’m talking the hotel chains) have created a false aura of paradise. The reality is that when you need safety and security, it doesn’t exist. Just ask the couple that was arrested by police in Playa del Carmen on NY eve, raped, and released to the cries of government denial that it ever happened.
For these reasons, I’m boycotting (as much as I’ve enjoyed past vacations) until the Mexican government understands how important it is to keep their tourists safe. They won’t be getting my dollars any longer.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:52:28 +0000

I was raped and robbed by men dressed as police in October 2010 near Sayulita. I shall never return.

By: rrs

rrs — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:59:37 +0000

There are no safe places in Mexico. Every week you read about tourists being raped and abused by cops, shot by drug gangs and killed in accidents at resorts resulting from negligence, corruption, sloppiness and greed. Mexico is a giant outhouse full of criminals and vermin. Even your average, “everyday mexican” will gladly steal from you if he thinks no-one is lookng and he can get away with it. They feel that we of more affluent countries are “spoiled” and “soft” and “undeserving” and have no qualms about taking whatever they can from us. Their own lives and property are treated with such little value by their own neighbors and government that they have very little respect for anyone else’s, either. No place is genuinely safe in Mexico. If you go there, you’re an idiot and there’s a better-than-average chance some misfortune will befall you, so beware and read the papers.