Posted on 03/15/2013 9:19:27 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
CANCUN, Mexico — Two masked men armed opened fire in a bar on the outskirts of the Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Thursday, killing six people and wounding five, the office of the state's attorney general said.
Public Safety Secretary Jesus Aiza says most of the victims belonged to a taxi drivers union.
Aiza says the assailants arrived at "The Mermaid" bar in a poor area far from Cancun's hotel zone in two cars Thursday afternoon. He says two gunmen using automatic rifles went inside and began shooting.
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Viva la muerte!
I went on a trip to Cancun several years ago, and also took a bus tour to Xcaret, about an hour and a half away.
About halfway there our bus stopped and we saw a line on soldiers all with automatic rifles standing alongside the rode, freaked my wife out something fierce.
“I went on a trip to Cancun several years ago, and also took a bus tour to Xcaret, about an hour and a half away.
About halfway there our bus stopped and we saw a line on soldiers all with automatic rifles standing alongside the rode, freaked my wife out something fierce”
That was going on in Acupulco and Puerto Vallarta in the mid eighties. I took my daughter after she graduated...it was a great civics lesson for her. I wonder how long before we see the same on our streets.
About 20 years ago my husband and I were stopped on the highway between Piedros Negros and Nuevo Laredo by the Mexican army. We prayed that it really was the Mexican army, they pointed their AH47s at us while they searched our trucks. Fortunately they didn’t find anything and they let us go but I was scared nearly to death.
It was a big hombre. Violins in the workplace, correcto? The smallest guy in a mariachi band always plays a cello. QED
Mr Trumka, Paging Richard Trumka........
Anti Drivers union folks in Mexico have adopted your terrorist tactics.
Coming soon to a Steelworkers bar in Pittsburgh?
Are you aware that most of those resorts have former military patrol their perimeters at night wearing night vision glasses and carrying real automatic weapons. If they didn’t they’d be overrun with bad guys.
BTW every once in a while the bad guys get through and/or a guest gets shot by security.
Absolutely the ones I go to DO NOT. In fact, I’ve never even seen cops carrying around “real automatic weapons” when off resort.
When was the last time you were in Mexico LadyJane? And where exactly?
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