Important info re: Mexico

[Angelhair]

Mexico

Read BEFORE going to Mexico.

 

[bodecea]

Mexico

Read BEFORE going to Mexico.

I don't go to Mexico anymore.

 

[waltky]

Messicans losin' their heads over escalating drug cartel violence...

Two heads, two bodies found in separate locations in Mexico
June 14, 2017 -- The attorney general in Mexico's Baja California Sur state said authorities found two human heads and two headless bodies in tourist destinations.

The Baja California Sur State Attorney General's Office said the headless bodies were found Saturday in a stream known as El Tule in the tourist city of San José del Cabo. The office said people reported a cooler next to a black bag and informed authorities.

The attorney general in Mexico's Baja California Sur state said authorities found two human heads and two headless bodies in the Los Cabos municipality, which is a key tourist destination.​

When authorities arrived, they discovered the headless bodies of two men, who were transferred to a medical center for identification. The office said the area is frequented by tourists and residents traveling to El Tule beach. The office later said two heads were found early Sunday in Cabo San Lucas, which is about 18 miles from San José del Cabo. In March, two heads were also found in Cabo San Lucas in a similar event.

State prosecutors said authorities are working to determine if the two heads found on Sunday belong to the two bodies found on Saturday. The state authority on Sunday said at least 18 bodies have been found in about a week throughout the Baja California Sur. There have been at least 200 homicides within seven months in the state's municipality of Los Cabos amid escalating drug cartel violence, El Universal reported. State and federal authorities have deployed at least 1,000 security forces throughout Los Cabos since April.

Two heads, two bodies found in separate locations in Mexico

 

[waltky]

Mexico sets record for homicides...

May was Mexico's deadliest month on record with 2,186 homicides
June 21, 2017 -- May was Mexico's deadliest month on record since the country's National System for Public Security began taking count of homicides 20 years ago.

The survey found that 2,186 people were murdered in Mexico during the month of May. The country is on pace to have its deadliest year on record. The year 2012 currently holds that title with 9,466 homicides between January and May. This year, the country already had 9,916 by the end of May. "This is the overwhelming and absolute failure of [Mexican President Enrique]Peña Nieto's public safety policy," Alejandro Hope, a Mexican security analyst, told BuzzFeed News.

Military personnel from the Mexican Army search sewers at the place where Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman was recaptured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, 08 January 2016. The Mexican government's crackdown on drug cartels have been blamed for the spike in violence, leading to May being the deadliest month on record in the country.​

Peña Nieto's to return to policies that involve heavy crackdowns on drug cartels has been blamed for the increase in violence across the country. "The recent return to 2011 murder rates is a symbolic moment – President Enrique Peña Nieto started his administration promising a less militarized approach to the fight against drug cartels, a step away from the 'war on drugs' strategy," the Britain-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said in a study on countries conflicted with armed conflict. "But Pena Nieto is nowhere near fulfilling his original plan of reducing the military presence on the streets. On the contrary, the go-to solution to the recurrent security crisis has been the dispatch of federal forces, frequently military ones, in place of inefficient, badly equipped and often corrupt local police forces."

That policy helped Mexico earn the title of second-most violent country in the world, behind only Syria, according to IISS. But the Mexican government pushed back against the ranking because it didn't believe that fighting drug cartels should be considered "armed conflict." "This is incorrect," the Mexican government said in a statement. "The existence of criminal groups is not a sufficient criterion to speak of a non-international armed conflict. Neither is the use of the Armed Forces to maintain order in the country's interior." The statement went on to say that other countries have a higher homicide rate, including Venezuela and Honduras.

May was Mexico's deadliest month on record with 2,186 homicides