How Safe is Mexico?
05/10, 5:00 pm | Comments:
I just ran across this post on AOL Travel by Anne Johnson. It is a must read for anyone planning to travel to Mexico or to calm fears of friends who think you shouldn’t visit!
Drug-related violence in cities south of the United States-Mexico border has caused the U.S. State Department to issue a travel warning for Mexico — but did you know most of Mexico is as safe as ever? Read More…
It's a great time to visit México
01/22, 6:37 pm | Comments:
… just ask the New York Times! Travel writer Brooke Barnes wrote a piece for the January 24, 2010 issue that is titled 36 Hours in Mexico City. The article touches on some of my favorite places in the Big Manzana. Article is here.
Now is a great time to visit México
09/9, 7:41 pm | Comments:
The San Francisco Gate published a piece titled Swine flu fallout: Great deals on Mexico trips. The article includes individual deals in Mazatlán, Los Cabos and the Riviera Maya, and a lot of information about how the country is working to reassure visitors. One of the most important quotes from the article is:
Mexico’s ultimate hurdle is not room rates, flu or even drug violence, but perception.
You’re three times as likely to contract H1N1 flu in the United States as in Mexico. And the drug war’s front lines still occupy just five of the country’s 2,400 counties; most Americans caught in the fray were in the border towns of Tijuana, Ciudad Juárez and Nuevo Laredo.
Read more here.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:15 am
I agree. Mexico is getting a bad rap.
Well said.
May 18th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
I couldn’t agree more with Linda’s comments. Mexico gets a very bad rap that is undeserved. By choice, I moved to Guadalajara from Dallas a year ago because I sold my business, retired, and married a lovely lady from here. Like Linda, we also spend a lot of time in Puerto Vallarta and other areas of Mexico and we have no cause for alarm what so ever. The weather here is ‘fabulous’ and the people are generally happy, even if they’re poor, and yes, my dollar goes much further here. Very nice!
Problems here? Well of course there are! As we all know, both sides of the US/Mexican border are problematic because of the drugs and guns that cross there and the fighting among the gangs for it’s control, again, on both sides of the border. If you want to cast dispersions, why don’t we REALLY take a hard look at the USA’s appetite for drugs and the GLUT of “assault weapons” that slide in under the “Right to Bare Arms”. Question: Does Bubba really need to cut that deer in half with his bullets?? Or, is he that bad of a shot?? Jesus Christ, wake up USA!!
In Guadalajara, Mexico’s second largest city, my wife and I feel safer walking at night in the city-center than we do in either downtown Dallas, L.A., or New York City. So those casting negative or rumor-based comments about Mexico show, at best, their lack of information, or at worst, their total ignorance because it’s obvious they’ve not been to the vast interior parts of Mexico.