But when she mentions Mexico, I get even more nervous. And then I read something like this:
EDMONTON (Sun Media) - A Grande Prairie man rejects Mexican cops' claims that it was an "accident" that left his vacationing brother hovering near death in a Cancun hospital.
[...]"He was beaten up bad. But in this country, everything is always an accident, right? It's all about keeping the tourist dollars."
Murray Toews says Jeff was savagely beaten early Monday in an attack on the grounds of Cancun's Moon Palace Golf and Spa resort, between the nightclub and the hotel.
[...]
But the top prosecutor for the state of Quintana Roo says the incident was an accident and there's no evidence of foul play.
"He wasn't beaten. He fell from a second storey of the hotel where he was staying," said Rodriguez y Carrillo.
"That's the report that we have from the security guard from the hotel, and the report we're getting from the hospital, too."
The prosecutor later said that Jeff was "running to a second floor, lost control and fell."
But Murray Toews slammed that explanation as a "coverup."
"They (Mexican authorities) keep you on the outside here.
"It's like a Third World country, how you're treated."
Storied like this make me want to avoid Mexico like the plague. I realize bad things can happen no matter where you go, and heck, even last week a convenience store clerk was stabbed here in Ottawa. But for some reason Mexico has always seemed rather threatening to me.
2 comments:
fine, forget Mexico...take me to Hawaii!!!!
;)
Well, I'm Canadian and I've lived in Mexico for three years. And I'll proudly say that I've gone to many of the places the Canadian government advises against visiting - like Oaxaca and the northern border region. Perhaps I'm just lucky, but I've never had any issues. (I also avoid the tourist resort towns.) Mexico is worth visiting, but only if you accept that it - and much of the rest of the world - doesn't work like Canada. Then again, people in my neighourhood drive fancy SUVs, drink Starbucks Coffee, buy groceries at Costco, withdraw cash from Scotiabank branches and take their kids to McDonald's. It's a lot like suburban Canada - minus the Tim Hortons.
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