When Will Kids Realize the Real Danger?

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 1:11am

I used to party in the bars in Mexico, too.  They're a blast.... but things have really changed....


http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6425009.html




4 Americans found strangled in Tijuana

May 14, 2009, 9:23PM









 




TIJUANA, Mexico â€” The bodies of four U.S. citizens were found strangled, beaten and stabbed in a van in this border city, two days after they reportedly left their Southern California homes for a night at the Mexican clubs, U.S. officials said Thursday.


The victims, ages 19 to 23 years old, were found tied up on Saturday, but their deaths were not reported earlier because they were under investigation, said Fermin Gomez, an assistant state prosecutor in Baja California.


The Los Angeles Times reported that a spokesman for the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana confirmed the identities of the dead and that they all were residents of Southern California. The dead were identified as Luis Games Chavez, 21; Oscar J. Garcia III, 23; Brianna Hernandez Aguilera, 19; and Carmen Ramos Chavez, 20, according to the consulate. All were U.S. citizens, the consulate said. Mexican authorities, however, listed Ramos Chavez as a Mexican citizen.


The deaths are the latest in a string of violence in Tijuana that authorities blame on a bloody turf war between drug cartels.


“I just don’t think kids should be going to Tijuana right now,” Chula Vista police Lt. Scott Arsenault told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “They ran into the wrong people, obviously.”

Bernard Gonzales, a spokesman for the Chula Vista Police Department, said a friend told the women’s parents they were headed to nightclubs in Tijuana on Thursday night. They were reported missing the next day when they did not answer their cell phones.

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 7:58am
Sad for their parents. Mexico is one place you wouldn't catch me ever going to, even if
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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 10:16am

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It's a shame you feel that way. Mexico is a very beautiful country. I realize that there are parts that are full of crime and corruption. Especially in border towns. But the bigger cities are beautiful, vibrant, and historical.

U.S. has some pretty stetchy areas too. For instance, you wouldn't find me partying in a bar in South Central LA.

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 10:39am

TJ was never the safest place to go. I've been there countless times but always with a number of people. Now it's plain dangerous.


I bet they're losing most of the tourist business what with the violence & the flu scare.


Young people think they're invincible.

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 11:00am

It used to be that the troubled areas were mostly in border cities, but not anymore.


I have some pretty sickening links which I will post later when I have time... the insanity has spread like a wildfire.


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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 11:54am
I wouldn't go there until this drug war is settled either, but Mexico is a great vacation destination otherwise.

 

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 12:41pm

When the new police chief of a place like Acapulco is kidnapped and murdered, then I'd carefully reconsider any

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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 2:15pm

The Yucatan Peninsula might be a place to go. Though as I remember it, it was for people who wanted a more physical, eco-vacation.


I grew up where it wans't unusual for teens to drive down to Tijuana/Ensanada for the weekend. A lot of us went to surf and camp on the beaches. But I do remember a girl from my high school being "arrested" for unknown reasons. It cost her parents over 20K to get her out of jail, and she never wanted to talk about what happened down there. Needless to say, most of the girls from my high school just chose to surf and camp along the Cali coast from that point on. But it had to hit THAT close to home. We had grown up hearing stories about how crooked the "Federales" were and to always have money to bribe them with if we got pulled over. It was the cops we were concerned about back in the early 80's and ending up in a Tijuana jail, now it's the drug dealers too.


I'm glad I live farther North. Instead we worry about our kids going up to Reno into the casinos and cheap hotel rooms they have up there, but at least it's still in the US.



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Fri, 05-15-2009 - 4:45pm
When my DH was stationed in Spain, I went over there and spent 2 weeks there. We traveled around the Costa Del Sol. Went to Granada,etc. It was beautiful country, BUT the people were the pushiest people I ever dealt with. Pushed in front of you in lines,etc.