Posted on 02/24/2008 5:03:31 PM PST by SwinneySwitch
You are right for the most part. The place where this happened is still pretty safe for tourists however. Notice that this didn’t happen to a tourist. It probably happened to a pick pocket or some other petty criminal. A more serious criminal would have simply disappeared.
Nuevo Progresso is a small town with a single main street. US citizens can park their cars on the US side and walk across to the Mexican side in about five minutes. About the only businesses in town are drug stores and dentists who charge less than half what drug stores and dentists in the US charge. US citizens on fixed incomes cross in droves every day for the inexpensive prescription drugs and dentistry. It’s big business for the Mexican businessmen who own them. They pay the army to protect their clients from the drug gangs and kidnappers and other criminals that pray on tourists in other Mexican cities.
I am surprised this happened in daylight, but I am not surprised it happened. Nuevo Progresso is not a safe place for criminals, and like the rest of Mexico, they do things very differently there than in the US.
Get this right: Mexico is NOT a third-world country.
In the 50’s, when Lucy and Desi and Carmen Miranda made all things Latin so romantic, Mexico seized upon the opp’y to rid themselves of the poor and less educated. The run the country as the Republics were once run [CA and TX.]
It’s easy to blame drug users for the drugs that enter the country. My intuition is that a percentage of the consumers here are using it for other illicit purposes, like keeping kidnapped women and children stoned and imprisoned in sex trade.
I’m with Kieri; tour our own country and get to know it before it’s completely gone.
huh????
They were prolly making a public example of a local pendejo. If they were doing any serious interrogation, they'd have a plastic bag over his head - while giving an occasional squirt of fly spray.
For misdemeanor level offenses, they'd simply tilt the suspects head back and pour 7-Up down the nostrils.
And neither of the above examples would be done in public.
And then you get this revolution cycle. but, in between, It’s always this “we are sooo poor”, “woe is us”, attitude.
It’s like if someone is not literally coming into their homes and killing their kids (as if poverty is not) they just sit in the mud puddle and take it.
Beg pardon, are you not the one who posted that hubs’ wouldn’t go to Cuernavaca? I was sorry to see that because I know someone who has been there often and tells me how beautiful it is.
I am not saying your hubs is right. But it’s interesting that we send our retirees there and they send their junk here.
I said “huh” because I didn’t understand your post.
Me neither, but sooner or later, Mexico will come to you.
Mexico is being invaded by drug terrorists the same as our terrorists. I just thought it was a shame to hear to talk of missing a visit to a beautiful place and to see your friends at the same time. I was trying to show the beauty in Mexico.
I, for one, would like to know just how long the fall from bridge to river is. Is it Golden Gate lethal or an uncomfortable 15 feet?
Mexico, because of the crime, corruption and extreme poverty IS a 3rd world country. 20 years ago my husbands uncle died in Mexico of a heart attack. His body was dumped in a fish cooler and the family had to pay off (bribe) everyone in Cozumel to get his body back to Texas for burial. That is when our attitude about Mexico being a vacation destination began to change.
Wow. That is the worst piece of writing that I have read in quite some time.
Just guessing, I would say about 20-25 feet. Far from lethal, but not fun, especially blindfolded.
That IS a nasty story. It’s too bad the wealthy there have turned a deaf ear to it; when it’s on their back door it will be too late.
Wait. We could be talking about our own country, on more than one level. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re viewed as third world, using the criteria you’ve laid out.
About The Bridge
http://www.texasmexicobridges.com/about_the_bridge.htm
Looks pretty high in the middle.
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