Mexico most dangerous destination for Canadians

someone was shot dead in cold blood in whistler last week.

i can only assume there will be a travel advisory and whistler is now too dangerous for us?

and that woman got assualted in stanley park a few years back, so i guess that is out of the question.

soon there wont be anywhere "safe" but the panic room at home

#5 me too , I cant believe it.

nlarique, don't start yout Twattery over here. These folks will eat you for breakfast. They are far more intolerant than Your Choice posters.

You're right, nexus, we eat YC posters for breakfast on this Branch. ;-) Thanks for the link to the article, it verifies what I said in #6:
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<hr>"This looks to me that Canadians are wearing a target on our backs when we travel to Mexico. I will continue to tell my constituents to avoid travelling there because it doesn't look safe to me," said Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis, a vocal critic of the country's police and justice system.<hr></blockquote>
I haven't noticed a lot of other nationalites complaining about being targeted in Mexico or anywhere else. So that leads me to believe that some Canadians travellers aren't too street smart when travelling and, therefore, may be more prone to becoming a victim of crime. Some of them can also be quite arrogant or overconfident and seem to forget that Mexico is a foreign country where the rules are different and society is different. And no, this doesn't apply only to Canadians but to other nationalities as well. But, I think that those that have these characteristics will be more vulnerable to being a victim of crime in Mexico and should probably stay home or vist the U.S., which is the #1 visited country by Canadians according to this article. Either way, they should heed Jim Karygiannis' advice, shouldn't they?

There are all sorts of ways that we can become "targets" if we are not street-smart, no matter where we come from. I travel alone from Chicago to PV often and make it my business to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time. About 7 years ago, I was walking on Los Muertos beach when a man came from out of nowhere and started walking next to me, step for step. He said, "I know you! I was your taxi driver from the airport to your hotel!" I knew he was not and I told him so. I started walking faster and so did he. Then he spinned around and started walking backwards while facing me. Also, he was still insisting that I knew him. This was in the middle of the day and a lot of people were around. I think a guy like him is betting on the fact that many gringas probably can't tell 1 Mexican man from another and that if he approaches enough women, eventually one of them will go home with him. God only knows what would happen from there.

And Mexico is also 86 times more fun than visiting the states

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<hr>Actually, if you search a little on the internet, you'll find that the English couple and other locals in Huatulco say it was the other way around.<hr></blockquote>

UUMMM !!! $24,000:00 going to government officials , rather than the supposed victims seems to be representative of the true nature and value of the unproven accusation

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MISSION - Peter Kimber is so close to being home. After more than two years in a Mexican prison, the 44-year-old former Mission resident is waiting to be deported to Canada. Kimber landed in prison after a British couple accused him of defrauding them in a house-building project.
"There is a sum of money in the hands of Foreign Affairs Canada, who've transmitted it to the Canadian embassy in Mexico City that would buy him a plane ticket." Family and friends raised $24,000 in bail funds that paid for Kimber's release. Benning said because the process to send Kimber home was set in motion by the Mexican government, he doesn't see any reason for the holdup.

This from the article:

"This looks to me that Canadians are wearing a target on our backs when we travel to Mexico. I will continue to tell my constituents to avoid travelling there because it doesn't look safe to me," said Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis, a vocal critic of the country's police and justice system.

I'm sure glad I'm not a constituent of Jim Karygiannis, otherwise I wouldn't be allowed to go to Mexico because I always listen to my MP.

I don't really understand the whole uproar over travelling to Mexico. The media in Canada has been blowing this one out of proportion for some time now. One really has to wonder about the assault reports. Could at least some of them have been assaults against drunken college kids in Cancun or other party spots, who have picked fights with locals, only to have their butts whipped and then they go running crying to the embassy? Just a speculative thought.

nexus, ls650 has been on an anti Canadian mission since this topic has been raised.

My point is that there are always two sides to each story and the fact that the alleged victims will never see a cent of the $24,000:00 and the supposed perpetrator of the crime will never return to a jurisdiction where a court could administer justice, and the pretty predictable outcome where once an individual or there family have been bled dry by various Mexicans be they Government Officials or Citizens we are left
with unproven accusations against an individual.

As far as returning to Mexico and expecting justice, that is not only laughable it's not worth spending time on in discussion, thats at least my take on it.

I travel to Mexico all the time for the warmth of the people and the climate, but I certainty understand that my sense of what constitutes acceptable values is different from what exist in Mexico, primarily because it's a totally different environment, economical and historically , not because of the nature of the people.

Cap'n, I see.

thnx