Posted on 10/10/2012 8:54:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier, this year, a Mexican think tank — the Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice — released a study ranking the world's most violent cities in 2011, and the results were astonishing.
The 20 most violent cities were all in Latin America. The USA had some alarming scores too, led by New Orleans at 21.
Other dangerous cities were located in Africa. None of the top 50 was in Europe or Asia, despite great unrest in those regions.
The ranking is based on murder rate per capita in 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
You’re probably OK if you know where to go, and if they know you. I have some inlaws with a house in central Mexico, and they have developed ties to the locals, including the local police.
Off-duty soldiers on a binge are probably less safe. Plus, it would only take a couple of killings to get their superiors in trouble for allowing it to happen.
You are in Vermont and you know about Mexico? Have you been there lately? I know Mexican people who don’t go back now because they know what is going on. It is the getting to that safe destination that is bad.
My son-in-law’s brother-in-law bought a walled house and grounds in Oaxaca some years ago, right near the Cathedral. It needed a lot of fixing up, but he is a builder and has done well over the years with real estate.
They vacationed there for a number of years, met the locals, brought their family, when to rodeos and cockfights, and so on. But things have gotten much worse over the last few years, and they may stop going. They have some Mexican friends who live in the house and take care of it.
He sold a house on Prince Edward Island to buy this one, after making a good profit on it. Admittedly this one may have been a mistake. If so, it’s his first. He’s from an old Vermont family, but one of his grandparents was Mexican, and he may have been too much influenced by that.
One of my best friends moved to Cuernavaca and said “it is really safe, there are guards everywhere”. We know from things we have seen, all you have to do is grease the palm of one of those guards and they work for you. Corruption is Mexico's downfall.
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