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Topic Started: Dec 9 2006, 12:21 PM (1,003 Views)
beachroses
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I'm glad nothing worse happened to your stepson, countrymouse! That's why you wouldn't catch me going down there, forget it. I agree about the children, too, I would not have given them anything to enable that kind of abuse. There are enough decent people working hard and raising their children to set an example in that country, same here, I guess no matter where you go there will always be ones who don't. <_<
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Condor,Dec 23 2006
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countrymouse,Dec 23 2006
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beachroses,Dec 22 2006
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I used to date a bullfighter from Mexico City, but I've never been to one or to Mexico.  Don't think I plan on going there anytime in the near future, either.

we went to cozumel and playa del carmen on a cruise once...i really enjoyed it, but at the same time it's always a bit surreal going to a "third world" environment like that...it really pissed me off to step off the ship and be immediately surrounded by children selling stuff...they run up barefoot, tattered clothing, dirty faces looking up at you through puppy dog eyes...all i could think was how dare parents train children to be street pushers! :angry:

yeah, i felt sorry for these kids, but it didn't make me want to buy anything...that just encourages the parents to continue the abuse! hey, i'm all for kids working....i think that's a huge part of the problems we have in this country, our kids are not trained to work for what they want, they're just given handouts and what does that teach them about "real life"...but to put kids in a position of basically begging on the streets?! just ain't right!!!

my stepson is a senior in college and he and some of his frat brothers went to cancun last year for spring break....about 4 am we get a text message that says, "being robbed by the mexican police, cancel my credit cards!" we were unable to make any other contact after that...we spent most of the next day calling the us consulate, frat parents, hotels, etc...finally, the following evening we were able to track him down and get the lowdown on what happened...

he & his brothers had been out partying the night before and he had left the bar alone (stupid!) to return to their hotel...he climbed in the backseat of a taxi which was promptly pulled over by the mexican police...my stepson was promptly placed in the backseat of the cop car and driven to an atm machine and told to empty his bank account....he did so, gave the money to the police and they drove away, leaving him to walk back to his hotel...

that was not a pleasant experience, but i think he learned a good lesson and God blessed him that that was the worst thing that happened to him!

I traveled most of Mexico on a Diplomatic passport and wouldn't have any other way. I tell people not to visit Mexico and if they do to stay in the resorts. If you get into a car accident, the Mexican police will just arrest everyone involved and no one gets out until everything to include them have been paid. You can be held without being charged in Mexico for fourteen months! They do not feed prisoners in the jails, that is left to the family or to outside charity groups. The Embassy and Consulates will provide you with minimal food, and vitamins if you are in a Mexican jail. If you are female and attractive, they will also provide birth control pills - you will need them!

When I left Mexico, we had more than 200 American citizens incarcarated along the northern border of Mexico that hadn't been charged.

I spoke to one family that were trying to get their 18 year old daughter out of a prison in northern Mexico. She had been in there for a year. She was kept in a hole in the ground shaped like an inverted funnel with an iron grate on the top. When it rained, the hole got very wet, sometimes knee deep. When she got food (the guards fed her), ti was in the same bucket that was lowered for her waste. The only time she got out ot the hole was when the guards were having a party.

Our government does very little or nothing and won't publish the truth because of trade ties with Mexico and Mexicos fear of ruining the American tourist industry for them.

I see liberals on various forums that complain about the administration and none of them ever complain about the things that our government (over several administrations) actually does that hurts our citizens. When I see that, I know that they are posting in ignorance.

Condor,

That sounds a lot like Turkey from what I've heard. I knew the mexican cops were crookeder than a country road but didn't know about the jails. GOOOD info, thanks.



CountryMouse,

Glad to hear your stepson got back to the USA in good health and short order. Guess he has no plans for another cruise to Mexico. As I was reading both of these stories, I was thinking, "Coming to a town near you ... " :( :gun2:
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Countrymouse you were right not to give those kids any money. I have friends who are from Mexico and they don't give money to those kids because it's just a scam.

I can't stand it in Mexico and haven't gone down in years, but when I used to go as soon as we drove back onto the American side I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders. You have no rights in Mexico, the cops are crooked and in cahoots with drug dealers, hookers, etc...
A few years ago there was an American family that got into a car accident with a Mexican official. The father was in critical condition with a neck injury and they wouldn't release him until the family came up with a huge amount of money. The wife called her brother-in-law who went to all his friends in the middle of the night trying to raise the money and when he did they decided they wanted more. This went of for a few days while this man was in a Mexican hospital with a life threatening injury. He was finally allowed to come back to the United States and was hospitalized but it was too late for anything to be done for him and he died leaving a wife and three children.
I could tell you a lot more stories but suffice it to say that Mexico is corrupt and I don't advise anyone to travel there.
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