TroglocratsRdumb
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Latin America has the highest violent crime rates in the world and that crap is coming to a town near you.
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No, id say the cartel drug dealers who go around chopping off heads are more to blame for the violence.Thanks largely to American drug addicts.
When I was a kid growing up in Laredo,Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, tourists from all over the country would come to Laredo to get a taste of “old Mexico.”
Yep.Thanks largely to American drug addicts.
Above it all lies one thingSo what have we learned from this thread?
Mexico is a shit hole. Thanks first and foremost to corrupt Latinos in Mexico, and secondly to idiotic drug users in the US.
it's not worth much....When I was a kid growing up in Laredo,Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, tourists from all over the country would come to Laredo to get a taste of “old Mexico.” Laredo is situated right on the border. The downtown area was connected to the downtown area of Nuevo Laredo with one international bridge. The two cities were essentially one large city separated by the Rio Grande, which serves as the international border.
Tourists would either walk or drive across the bridge for a day of shopping at the market, eat lunch and drink a beer at the Cadillac Bar, and eat dinner, have drinks, and take in a floor show at some nightclub. When I was in high school, that’s what we would also sometimes do on dates (sometimes without the knowledge or consent of our parents). It was all safe and secure. With the exception of sometimes having to pay a bribe to a cop for illegal parking, there were rarely any adverse incidents.
Not anymore. Nobody in his right mind would go into Nuevo Laredo except in a case of extreme necessity. That’s because everyone is now subject to the very real possibility of being killed or kidnapped by drug cartels and drug gangs or caught in the crossfire of drug turf battles.
Why the problem now and not back then?
One simple reason: The war on drugs or, to put it another way, drug illegality. The drug war destroyed the tourism business in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. In fact, with the exception of well-secured tourist resorts on Mexican beaches, the drug war has essentially destroyed the tourism business across the country. My parents drove from Laredo to Acapulco for their honeymoon. No one in his right mind would do that today.
If you want to trouble yourself there are some numbers here.
I wouldn't put it that way. What actually killed it was simple corruption and greed, the drug war was simply the mechanism by which it was carried out. I noticed that corruption was a common denominator in every country that I visited that was settled by the Spanish and they were also mainly Catholic for whatever that's worth.
What's "it's"?it's not worth much....
His belief that Mexico and other Latin countries being colonized by the Spanish/Catholics may be the reason why Latin America is such a horrible place....What's "it's"?it's not worth much....
The decay in the West Coast has a lot to do with the liberalization of drug laws and the legalization of pot. Those needles laying around aren't from criminal users. They are from quite legal needle distribution clinics.My biggest fear is that massive corruption becomes 'normal' to Americans. We always talked about politicians being worthless liars, but things seem different now. The decay of the West Coast is slowly becoming a new normal. Now we have politicians openly flaunting being above the law, and a media that no longer cares.
On Drug Decriminalization in the United StatesThe decay in the West Coast has a lot to do with the liberalization of drug laws and the legalization of pot. Those needles laying around aren't from criminal users. They are from quite legal needle distribution clinics.My biggest fear is that massive corruption becomes 'normal' to Americans. We always talked about politicians being worthless liars, but things seem different now. The decay of the West Coast is slowly becoming a new normal. Now we have politicians openly flaunting being above the law, and a media that no longer cares.
The decay in the West Coast has a lot to do with the liberalization of drug laws and the legalization of pot. Those needles laying around aren't from criminal users. They are from quite legal needle distribution clinics.My biggest fear is that massive corruption becomes 'normal' to Americans. We always talked about politicians being worthless liars, but things seem different now. The decay of the West Coast is slowly becoming a new normal. Now we have politicians openly flaunting being above the law, and a media that no longer cares.
Those needles laying around aren't from criminal users.
His belief that Mexico and other Latin countries being colonized by the Spanish/Catholics may be the reason why Latin America is such a horrible place....What's "it's"?it's not worth much....
So what have we learned from this thread?
Mexico is a shit hole. Thanks first and foremost to corrupt Latinos in Mexico, and secondly to idiotic drug users in the US.
James Michener wrote a book called Caribbean. He waxed lyrical about why all Central and South American (ie Spanish/Portuguese) countries, and the Spanish-influenced Caribbean island nations were third-world shitholes (last word is mine, not his - the book was written in 1989) and yet most (but not all) of the British colonies - Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand - were first world. His reasoning was that in the most part - again not all - the British govenment usually chose the best person to do the job (ie govern), whereas most Spanish governors or whatever got their position due to nepotism as opposed to ability. This lead to a lot of incompetent administrators and corruption, which has gone on down the generations. Interesting perspective. True? Dunno...
Ummmm...yea....I’m sure that’s it....
When I was a kid growing up in Laredo,Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, tourists from all over the country would come to Laredo to get a taste of “old Mexico.” Laredo is situated right on the border. The downtown area was connected to the downtown area of Nuevo Laredo with one international bridge. The two cities were essentially one large city separated by the Rio Grande, which serves as the international border.
Tourists would either walk or drive across the bridge for a day of shopping at the market, eat lunch and drink a beer at the Cadillac Bar, and eat dinner, have drinks, and take in a floor show at some nightclub. When I was in high school, that’s what we would also sometimes do on dates (sometimes without the knowledge or consent of our parents). It was all safe and secure. With the exception of sometimes having to pay a bribe to a cop for illegal parking, there were rarely any adverse incidents.
Not anymore. Nobody in his right mind would go into Nuevo Laredo except in a case of extreme necessity. That’s because everyone is now subject to the very real possibility of being killed or kidnapped by drug cartels and drug gangs or caught in the crossfire of drug turf battles.
Why the problem now and not back then?
One simple reason: The war on drugs or, to put it another way, drug illegality. The drug war destroyed the tourism business in Laredo and Nuevo Laredo. In fact, with the exception of well-secured tourist resorts on Mexican beaches, the drug war has essentially destroyed the tourism business across the country. My parents drove from Laredo to Acapulco for their honeymoon. No one in his right mind would do that today.
If you want to trouble yourself there are some numbers here.