Driving from Tijuana to Cancun.

[Doug]

I can get "ya"a n american wife "jack"..for real, she's my next door neigbhor, like 300lbs and 70 years old.

No BS jack, it's real, and it's ugly and brutal. I think I could get her to marry some 40 year old Canadian dude blindly.No BS, I can get her for you, then you wait for her to die,basically

 

[hybrid]

your not going to die if you go to mexico, a couple of friends just got back from cancun they had a great time and I have a friend who lives outside mexico city for the past 2 years teaching english and he has no plans on leaving he says he loves it there. its like traveling anywhere keep your nose clean and mind your own business and you should be fine..... the media is ridiculous and make people think its not safe to leave your house, I travel a lot and wouldn't hesitate to go back to mexico....

 

[Enfuego]

(CNN) -- Three teens, one a U.S. citizen, were killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez this weekend, a spokesman with the Chihuahua state prosecutor's office said late Monday.

The killing was the first case this year of an American student being killed in Juarez, which has been beset recently by violence and is just across the border from El Paso, Texas, spokesman Arturo Sandoval said.

The shooting happened at 4:22 p.m. Saturday at a car dealership, where the teens were looking at cars, according to Sandoval. Police recovered at least 18 bullet casings at the scene from an AK-47, an automatic weapon commonly used by drug traffickers in the city.

Two of the victims were born in Ciudad Juarez and were identified as Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez, 16, and Cesar Yalin Miramontes Jimenez, also 16, according to Sandoval.

The other victim, identified as Juan Carlos Echeverri Jr., 15, was born in El Paso, the prosecutor's spokesman said. The teen's parents identified his body over the weekend and confirmed that he was an American citizen.


Virginia Staab, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said Monday that U.S. authorities are actively looking into the incident and had not yet confirmed the citizenship of any of the victims.


At least one of the victims attended a Juarez prep school called Tecnológico de Monterrey, Sandoval said.

A message on the website of Cathedral High School in El Paso asked students and families to remember Bermudez and said he was a sophomore. His fellow students had an assembly and prayer service in his honor Monday morning, the El Paso Times reported.

"We believe (Echeverri) and the two others had been friends for a long time. He was here in the city to visit them," Sandoval said.

The fatal shootings come on the heels of numerous similar violent incidents in recent months in Juarez. In one 48-hour span last week, for instance, at least 14 people were killed -- including a municipal police officer and a newspaper vendor who police believe was targeted due to her job, according to Juarez Police spokesman Adrian Sanchez.

 

[SportSavant]

your not going to die if you go to mexico, a couple of friends just got back from cancun they had a great time and I have a friend who lives outside mexico city for the past 2 years teaching english and he has no plans on leaving he says he loves it there. its like traveling anywhere keep your nose clean and mind your own business and you should be fine..... the media is ridiculous and make people think its not safe to leave your house, I travel a lot and wouldn't hesitate to go back to mexico....

Amen

 

[SportSavant]

lol, just spoke to my parents are on skype, and they say half the cars there are from all over the USA and CANADA.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

The only time I've been to Mexico was when I went to Juarez several years ago. First, we drove across and went through the city some and came back across. Then we parked in El Paso and walked across the bridge to Juarez and spent the night there. I was with a few people (one of them had Spanish as their Native Language). It was very hot (in June) and there was no air conditioning and the TV only had a few channels. It didn't matter since we were out on the town most of the night. Some parts of Juarez the poverty hits you. Other parts are a little better and more like nightlife areas. A Taxi Driver had all the info where to go and hang out so he was cool. I'd recommend knowing some Spanish or being with someone that is extremely fluent or someone that is a native of Central or South America if you go to Non-Mainstream Vacation Spots. Safe to say, it was alot easier to get into Juarez then to get out. It was alot lengthier process to get back into the United States and the lines were alot longer LOL. Juarez had a sketchy bad rep then several years ago and obviously it has gotten worse there.

 

[Well-Seasoned]

The only time I've been to Mexico was when I went to Juarez several years ago. First, we drove across and went through the city some and came back across. Then we parked in El Paso and walked across the bridge to Juarez and spent the night there. I was with a few people (one of them had Spanish as their Native Language). It was very hot (in June) and there was no air conditioning and the TV only had a few channels. It didn't matter since we were out on the town most of the night. Some parts of Juarez the poverty hits you. Other parts are a little better and more like nightlife areas. A Taxi Driver had all the info where to go and hang out so he was cool. I'd recommend knowing some Spanish or being with someone that is extremely fluent or someone that is a native of Central or South America if you go to Non-Mainstream Vacation Spots. Safe to say, it was alot easier to get into Juarez then to get out. It was alot lengthier process to get back into the United States and the lines were alot longer LOL. Juarez had a sketchy bad rep then several years ago and obviously it has gotten worse there.

However, it was a unique experience and I had some fun. Sometimes I meet some Mexicans in the A-T-L and they ask if I have been to Mexico. I say yes and they are like Cancun? Puerto Vallarta?? I'm like no, Juarez. Some of them then have a freaked-out priceless look on their face afer hearing that LOL. The reality was Juarez was the closest Mexican city to my college in New Mexico so that was the main reason for going there at the time.

 

[Doug]

I only went into Mexico to play pelota ( jai alai) only in Tj, never felt too comfortable there ( even in 1985), went maybe 15 times. I'm too old to play now. I might go to a resort town like a Cancun. but I'm not driving in Mexico....no problem for me to drive in Canada, but not Mexico ! Never been anywhere else or obviously drove anywhere else !

Driving in TJ was scary, but I did it at least 12 times !

 

[Doug]

TJ jai alai

220' court BTW

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...atwfL0Im0DQ&page=1&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0

 

[Enfuego]

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose former tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels.

The attack in Mexico's second-largest municipality took place just hours after a shootout between soldiers and presumed cartel gunmen left eight people, including an innocent driver, dead in the northeastern city of Monterrey. Monterrey is Mexico's third-largest city.

In the Guadalajara attack, assailants in a Jeep Cherokee and a taxi drove up to the Butter Club, located in a bar and restaurant district popular with young people, and sprayed it with bullets.

Some of the men then got out of the taxi and threw a grenade into the nightclub entrance, said a police official, who spoke to news media at the scene and left without giving his name. The gunmen fled after the pre-dawn attack, he said.

Three were killed at the scene and three more died later in hospitals, said Medical Services Director Yannick Nordin. A Venezuelan and a Colombian were among the dead.

While there have been isolated grenade attacks around the city, Saturday's was the first to be thrown into a crowd and cause so many injuries.

The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara recently warned U.S. citizens not to drive at night in parts of the city after suspected drug-gang members burned vehicles and blocked streets.

Such alerts have become common for highways in some areas of northern and western Mexico, but not for Guadalajara, which is known more for its mariachi music and tequila than as a focal point of a drug war that has claimed nearly 35,000 lives since 2006.

But in recent months the picturesque colonial city has come to resemble embattled areas of northern Mexico -- including the state of Nuevo Leon, where Monterrey is located.

Seven presumed cartel gunmen were shot dead by soldiers near Monterrey during a chase and shootout just after midnight Friday. A civilian was also killed when the gunmen crashed into his car as they tried to flee soldiers.

A soldier and a state police officer were wounded during the clash in the suburban city of San Nicolas, the military said in a news release.

Nuevo Leon has been hit by a wave of drug-fueled violence in recent years as the Gulf Cartel battles a gang of its former enforcers known as the Zetas.

The cartels have staged a bloody turf war over drug peddling points and smuggling routes to the U.S. border 125 miles (200 kilometers) to the north, and clashes with the military and police have become almost a daily occurrence in and around Monterrey.

In Guadalajara, the violence has heated up just in the past few months from cartels warring for turf. The city is key to western drug routes once controlled by former Sinaloa leader Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who was killed in a gunbattle with soldiers in July.

 

[hybrid]

I dont think he plans on partying in guadalajara so he should be ok...
one of my friends should be returning tomorrow from mexico tomorrow but with all the killings I hope he makes it...lol....
cmon man let it go people travel there everyday and dont get in gun battles with cartels or soldiers you shouldn't be so scared

 

[VegasRandy]

Is it possible to get killed in Mexico? Yes

Is is probable to get killed in Mexico? No.

At least you're getting out in the world and living your life instead of living in your fears.

 

[SportSavant]

Is it possible to get killed in Mexico? Yes

Is is probable to get killed in Mexico? No.

At least you're getting out in the world and living your life instead of living in your fears.

agreed

 

[hybrid]

agreed +1

 

[VegasRandy]

Did you end up going to Mexico? After reading about all the recent violence I would think twice.

 

[1968]

yea, what did you do?

 

[VegasRandy]

U.S. warns on travel to five more Mexican states

Fri Apr 22, 2:04 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Friday broadened its travel warning on Mexico to include parts of five additional states, including a highway where suspected drug gangs shot two U.S. customs officials in February.
The warning advises U.S. government personnel and American citizens to defer nonessential travel in certain parts of Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas.
It outright bans U.S. employees from traveling to Colotlan and Yahualica, two cities in the central-west state of Jalisco near the Zacatecas border due to increasing drug gang violence.
"Concerns include roadblocks placed by individuals posing as police or military personnel and recent gun battles between rival transnational criminal organizations involving automatic weapons," the State Department warning said.
The restrictions were added to a previous warning against travel throughout the states of Tamaulipas and Michoacan and to parts of the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango and Sinaloa.
Gunmen shot dead an unarmed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and wounded another on February 15 on a highway in San Luis Potosi in a daylight attack that outraged U.S. officials and put a strain on join U.S.-Mexican efforts to battle drug cartels.
The State Department advised against travel on that road, Highway 57D, a major north south route toward Monterrey, Mexico's commercial capital.
The latest warning also provides more specific information on travel in northern Mexico where drug gang wars have been most violent, naming cities and towns that require particular caution. For example, it says U.S. government officials are required to travel only in armored vehicles and in daylight hours in Sinaloa parts of the city of Nogales.
The warning can be seen at: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_5440.html
More than 36,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a military-led crackdown on drug gangs in 2006. Mexico last month revealed that it is allowing unmanned U.S. drone aircraft into its airspace to hunt for drug traffickers.

 

[Doug]

Has anybody heard about how this former Mod is doing ? He seemed like a really cool dude when I met him.

 

[1968]

Cartel must have gotten him

 

[5teamparlay]

you will make it there.....

I 'd say 10,000:1 on getting murdered on the drive.

You will have to pay several bribes along the way ( imo) with those ontario ( ?) plates. Canadian plates in mexico will stand out.

hope he made it...