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by NotSammyHagar 2592 days ago
I love being in Mexico but when the occasional thing happens it's horrifying. In Cabo San Lucas someone in my family has a house and it feels safe and fun to go there. Then two years ago there was a kind of mini drug war and one day there were dead bodies hanging from the freeway overpass [1]. If I was driving by they might just kill me to keep it quiet. That's the terrifying thing, I never worry about that in the US. I have a friend from Mexico, he was a college prof, he refused to give a student a good grade based on a bribe but he didn't know his family was in some kind of gang and one thing lead to another and he decided to immigrate for safety. We never had problems in my family, but we stopped going that year it got dangerous there.

[1] https://www.kcra.com/article/bodies-found-hanging-from-overp...