The New World was Colonial Spain’s political gulag and criminal slave labor camp.
The people of today are their descendants.............
The amount of ghastly murder and torture in Brazil is incredible.
Life isn’t worth two cents there.
But guns are completely illegal in Mexico....
Sorry Arkansas and Washington, D. C., but it was a valiant effort under the Clintons.
We need to send them our liberal gun-control advocates. That should fix it.
Chiraq needs to step up their game.
Caracas, VZ is the worst.
Dumb article. There are dangerous places in all of Latin America, of course (although Mexico is technically NOT “Latin America”.... Mexico is actually part of NORTH America). You can, for example, live in Oaxaca, which is a beautiful, temperate city of about half a million, and almost never worry about drug violence. I lived there for a bit and it is safer there than any mid sized city I have ever seen (my brother says any city in Japan is safer). I never worried about my safety, and I carry a handgun (CC Licensed) almost everywhere here. You could also be in Aguas Calientes, Veracruz (more iffy), Guadalajara, or if you want to see something really COOL, you could go right into the middle of the most dangerous drug infested state in MX, and stay in Cheran.... a city of 30,000 that got so fed up with the drug violence that they ABOLISHED ALL POLITICIANS AND FORBADE ELECTIONS. THere is NO municipal government.... AT ALL. It has been that way for 7 years now, and the murder rate has fallen to zero. Corruption is nonexistent, and amazingly, the water system, sewer, power, TV, and trash collection STILL WORKS.... and works better than anywhere other city in MX. Narcos showed up and tried to bully some citizens and they called a meeting with them, told them they would get their a$$es shot off if they returned. You should check out the vids on YouTube about the place if you don’t believe me.
Anyway, If you are in the high drug trafficking states (Michoacan... with the exception of Cheran....., Guerrero, Tamaualipas, Coahuila, Chihuahua, especially) then there is a danger of random violence. OR you go down and stupidly try to get involved in buying quantities of dope (I don’t do any drugs myself, other than alcohol and only a few beers at that), then yes, you will get killed, probably, but I won’t wail for you any more than if you were buying skag on the street in Chicago, Houston, Atlanta and got shot or knifed. I would steer clear of the crazy, and do.
What Mexico REALLY needs is an armed citizenry. They would put a stop to this crap in about 2 weeks. They know who the bad guys are. As it is, they are like most Americans, stupidly believing that “our government will protect us.”
It is sad, because it is really a beautiful country with some of the kindest, warmest and most gracious people I have ever known.
And the Democrats want to get the USA infested with this way of life