14 Mar 2023 6:21 pm
Cannonpointer » 14 Mar 2023, 6:17 pm » wrote: ↑ I have been all over Mexico - both coasts, Lindo Michoacan, border towns, Mexico City. Like the United States, Mexico has some very dangerous areas. I recommend aganst traveling to those.
I would love to return to Morelia and Santa Clara in Michoacan, and once again go horseback up a mountain where millions of Monarchs winter, draping the trees with a living insect curtain - but since my soujourn there in 2016, it has fallen into the hands of the cartels. Mexico is getting swallowed up, it seems. I was in Mexico in July and again in January, and will be there again in July - but not for pleasure.
At this point, if those were my only vacation choices, **** Mexico. It's a nation of wonderful folks in the non-tourist areas, but you never know when the cartels are going to suddenly take over an area. And in the tourist areas, it's a nation of diligent, telented, committed thieves who all have each other's backs because they are all in on it. Even the priests and nuns. Robbing yanks simply is not a sin or a crime in the touristed areas of Mexico.
Thank you. That's what I was looking for. The cartels are killing the tourist trade in Mexico.