I didn't mean to offend you...
Anyways, I wouldn't visit Mexico at all, it seems like every other month a Canadian tourist is randomly killed.
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_1764.html
Mexico 04/22/2011
This is why they won't go to Mexico.
Don't worry, I am not offended at all. Maybe other places are so much smaller than Mexico that it becomes hard to understand proportions. I understand you and I will take your words and fears at face value, as I will do with those of the US government:
"Millions of U.S. citizens safely visit Mexico each year, including more than 150,000 who cross the border every day for study, tourism or business and at least one million U.S. citizens who live in Mexico (legally)." from
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5440.htmlAnd will make my best effort to make things extremely clear for you and hopefully for WRP which could and should shortly consider Mexico for TAR (20?):
1) No other country in the world is visited by any more Americans every day, week or year than Mexico. About 1.5 million every month according to the US State Dept.
2) The whole country has a smaller crime rate than that of Detroit. A much larger percentage of Detroit's population is murdered every day than that of all of Mexico's population of 112 million. That is, in Detroit there are 42 murders per 100,000 people and there are just 12 per 100,000 in all of Mexico. Of course this figure almost disappears when talking only about foreign visitors in Mexico.
3) Yes, it seems like, every other day, there is a fatality of an American or Canadian in Mexico, but NONE EVER YET, and it is expected to remain this way, related to drug violence.
4) Math can explain:
There are 2 million Americans and Canadians (legally or illegally*) living permanently in Mexico plus 20,000 (at least) arriving every day on tourism, and 130,000 crossing into Mexico every day from the US,
that is more people than those who live in all of American Samoa OR Northern Mariana Islands OR US Virgin Islands OR Guam OR Wyoming OR
Washington, DC OR Vermont OR North Dakota OR Alaska OR South Dakota OR Delaware OR Montana OR Rhode Island and it is a population size comparable to that of New Hampshire OR Maine OR Hawai’i.
Of course, just like in Washington, DC, someone gets killed every other day. But it can be from anything from a transportation accident to being murdered by your own husband like it happened to an American lady who got killed in Cancun by her American husband who happened to be a producer for Survivor or maybe even surviving an accident like that of a very lucky British lad whom, wasted in Mazatlan, forgot he was staying in the 7th floor of a hotel and just walked out of a window.
5) No other country in the world has even close to one million Americans in it, permanently or has 160,000 North Americans counterparts coming into it DAILY.
6) TAR regularly visits countries with a much higher crime rate than that of Mexico, like Russia, Brazil and others.
7) Press and fearful people love to take things out of proportion.
* "Do I look Illegal?" by The Mexico Times:
http://mexicotimes.posterous.com/do-i-look-illegal-bottom-10-lesser-known-factBelieve me, as a permanent resident in Mexico City, which is by far (over Toronto and London) the most preferred city for American expats in the world, that is, there are more Americans in Mexico City than in Toronto and London combined, I'd be more scared to find myself lost in a rough area of Miami, San Diego, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, Vancouver or Houston which I know all very well.
Just to make us all feel comfortable, at ease and in peace, just take a look at the beauty that TAR is missing (just imagine the possible tasks) in this selection of just 10 out of 32 states of Mexico, next door:
Chihuahua State
http://youtu.be/IXYZoDrIPDU just across from New Mexico and Texas
Tamaulipas State
http://youtu.be/ZojkZU25TFs just across from Texas
Sinaloa State
http://youtu.be/XsdDyJJPDeAOaxaca State
http://youtu.be/qUcOjN4gRKwVeracruz State
http://youtu.be/rz3JYbVkXQsYucatan State
http://youtu.be/_rHm9yuhLNEQuintana Roo State
http://youtu.be/yBSjzfIgCSMChiapas State
http://youtu.be/ror3hepR4HQSonora State
http://youtu.be/eSegtyStFSQ just across from Arizona
Coahuila State
http://youtu.be/TtM0NiWNLL4 just across from Texas
Hope you like it. and yes, this is Mexico, the place you thought you knew.
At least WRP LOVES IT for its Elimination Stations where, without any special security each and every one has enjoyed their stay.
Please accept my apologies for when I mentioned that TAR 19 still had time to bring them back through Cancun, I didn't mean to raise any fears.
Now lets change topic to TAR 19 and quit Mexico, since this has just taken me a lot of time away from my detective activity for both TAR and TARLA.
Read you all soon.