Bodies on the Beach in Mexico
I like Mexico. Hablo Espanol. I have been down there nine times on vacation, and I have driven all over the country, from the Pacific coast to the Caribbean. Even went through Acapulco once, just passing through it was not my style.
First visit 1970, last visit 1990. Never saw any violence or had any problems, other that getting searched by the Federales at some roadblocks.
But, the country has gone to hell. I ain't going back, no way Jose.
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Tourists continue lounging next to dead bodies on Mexico beach
By Kate Schneider, News.com.au October 18, 2018 | 11:17am | Updated
Tourists continue lounging next to dead bodies on Mexico beach
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Fourteen murdered in 36 hours in Cancun
It?s a stunning resort town once frequented by the rich and famous, but these days it?s become the scene of unimaginable horror time and time again.
The latest incident saw two men murdered on Caleta Beach in Mexico?s Acapulco region, but such scenes of bloodshed are becoming so mundane that tourists barely batted an eyelid.
Sure, some beachgoers initially ran for their lives when the gunshots rang out, but it wasn?t long before they went on with their leisure activities. Some were even filmed dining at a beachside restaurant while the bodies lay just feet away, with the bizarre scenes caught on camera by local site El Sol de Acapulco.
The footage shows the crime scene being cordoned off by investigators with tourists seen relaxing in the background.
The identities of the victims have not been revealed, but it?s believed they were chased from a vehicle and ran into the crowd of tourists.
The horrid incident comes as the skeletal remains of six men were found in a house, also in Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
The local government said some of the bodies were found with their hands and feet bound, one with a piece of wire tied around the neck.
Morgues in Guerrero and several other states in Mexico have been overwhelmed by the number of bodies found on streets and in clandestine graves. Many are never identified.
Violence is also skyrocketing in the north-central state of Guanajuato, where the state prosecutor?s office reported that a pile of hacked-up limbs and body parts was found on a street in the city of Salamanca.
And in April, tourists watched as a man?s body washed ashore at Acapulco?s Caletilla Beach. Horrifying images showed stunned beachgoers standing near the water as officials removed the corpse.
Modal TriggerForensic personnel and police officers carry the body of a murdered man off Caletilla beach in Acapulco.
Forensic personnel and police officers carry the body of a murdered man off Caletilla Beach in Acapulco.Getty Images
During the same month in Guerrero, 16 people ? including six police officers ? were killed in two confrontations during a bloody gun battle that lasted half an hour.
It was just the latest in a string of violence and gruesome murders in the country. In Cancun last week, there were 14 killings reported in a period of just 36 hours ? the highest in the country?s recorded history, according to Mexico news outlet Noticaribe.
However, tourists continue to flock to the hugely popular country despite these horror stories.
Mexico ranked as the sixth-most visited nation on the planet in 2017, with a whopping 39 million international tourists.
First visit 1970, last visit 1990. Never saw any violence or had any problems, other that getting searched by the Federales at some roadblocks.
But, the country has gone to hell. I ain't going back, no way Jose.
nypost.com
Tourists continue lounging next to dead bodies on Mexico beach
By Kate Schneider, News.com.au October 18, 2018 | 11:17am | Updated
Tourists continue lounging next to dead bodies on Mexico beach
0:17
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1:13
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY:
Fourteen murdered in 36 hours in Cancun
It?s a stunning resort town once frequented by the rich and famous, but these days it?s become the scene of unimaginable horror time and time again.
The latest incident saw two men murdered on Caleta Beach in Mexico?s Acapulco region, but such scenes of bloodshed are becoming so mundane that tourists barely batted an eyelid.
Sure, some beachgoers initially ran for their lives when the gunshots rang out, but it wasn?t long before they went on with their leisure activities. Some were even filmed dining at a beachside restaurant while the bodies lay just feet away, with the bizarre scenes caught on camera by local site El Sol de Acapulco.
The footage shows the crime scene being cordoned off by investigators with tourists seen relaxing in the background.
The identities of the victims have not been revealed, but it?s believed they were chased from a vehicle and ran into the crowd of tourists.
The horrid incident comes as the skeletal remains of six men were found in a house, also in Acapulco, in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
The local government said some of the bodies were found with their hands and feet bound, one with a piece of wire tied around the neck.
Morgues in Guerrero and several other states in Mexico have been overwhelmed by the number of bodies found on streets and in clandestine graves. Many are never identified.
Violence is also skyrocketing in the north-central state of Guanajuato, where the state prosecutor?s office reported that a pile of hacked-up limbs and body parts was found on a street in the city of Salamanca.
And in April, tourists watched as a man?s body washed ashore at Acapulco?s Caletilla Beach. Horrifying images showed stunned beachgoers standing near the water as officials removed the corpse.
Modal TriggerForensic personnel and police officers carry the body of a murdered man off Caletilla beach in Acapulco.
Forensic personnel and police officers carry the body of a murdered man off Caletilla Beach in Acapulco.Getty Images
During the same month in Guerrero, 16 people ? including six police officers ? were killed in two confrontations during a bloody gun battle that lasted half an hour.
It was just the latest in a string of violence and gruesome murders in the country. In Cancun last week, there were 14 killings reported in a period of just 36 hours ? the highest in the country?s recorded history, according to Mexico news outlet Noticaribe.
However, tourists continue to flock to the hugely popular country despite these horror stories.
Mexico ranked as the sixth-most visited nation on the planet in 2017, with a whopping 39 million international tourists.
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and this is what ocasio-cortez wants to open the border even wider to if she wins and continues to ride the womens movement to higher office she will become as frightning a figure as hillary ...with many new taxes for freebies for all and world welfare crushing the thinning middle class of AMERICA..remember ...the ones that actually WORK 0 -
Mexico is a Sh#thole. That why they want to come here. 0 -
Spent a week in Cabo San Lucas this spring, not my choice. The streets are patrolled by police in armored cars with a pintel mounted machine gun at the ready.
Cabo has determined not become like Cancun, or Acapulco, or any number of other areas that are losing tourist traffic because of drug violence. I don't see myself ever setting foot in Mexico again.0 -
I've got zero sympathy for an American that gets into trouble down in Mexico. You cross that border you are asking to be a victim. 0 -
Mexico is a big country. As I said, made 3 driving trips down there, did get hassled by Federales at roadblocks. Way out in the country, orange saw horses across the road, you pull over.
Plainclothes Federales search your vehicle. They love the 1911 Colt, every one I saw had a leather shoulder holster with the .45 Colt.
I must say they look like bad asses.
Anyway, nothing bad happened there but I did get tired of the hassle plus I had heard of Gringos getting their cars confiscated on a pretext. Guess they didn't want my old VW van.
So, next 6 trips we flew to the Yucatan. Flew down to Cancun, not because I like Cancun but because they have an airport. There rented a car and stayed in the Yucatan. Figured if the Federales wanted to confiscate my car, they could take it up with Hertz and I would be taking a cab back to the airport. We had a great time there looking at the Maya ruins.
By now, in the eighties, we did hear about drug violence in other parts of the country but nothing in the Yucatan and I had a great time down there.
So I haven't been back for 28 years. I guess, I did get tired of getting amoebic dysentery every time I went down there, they have a problem producing clean food and water.
But I know a gal who went down to the Yucatan 12 years ago and she said there were drug cartels having machine gun battles in the street there, AK 47 dopers vs Army with M 16s.
So, even the Yucatan has gone to s***.
I wouldn't go back if you paid me.0 -
BUT WE
OWE THEM
get rid of ICE...send charter buses down to bring em back....FREE everything....free med, free school, free food, hesus h christo...and i am supposed to feel guilt because i do NOT buy into this KRAP...why in the hell do we want to import their failed society ?????0 -
The OP didn't see what was going on in the border towns in 1990.
Mexico was a ****hole in 1970 especially Texas Border towns like Reynosa / McAllen that were criminal along with having gross entertainment, unless you're into dog and burro shows.0 -
New meaning for "beach bodies" ...... 0 -
droptop when I went down to Mexico in the seventies and eighties, I was pretty naive. I was so dumb, I guess the statute of limitations in Mexico has passed so I can tell my story, but my first trip I was 19, I had a Walther semi auto under the seat of the VW van. Hell, I heard there were bad guys down there!
Never had a shootout I sold that gun to a Mexican guy on Isla Mujeres in the Yucatan.
I was told by experienced travelers, "Stay the hell away from the border. Fuel up in Texas and go at least 150 miles inside the country before you stop."
So that was what I did. I guess the border towns were pretty bad even in the seventies.0 -
I did my pilot training in Laredo back in '69-'70. Used to walk across to Nuevo Laredo all the time. Now, I'm told you don't dare even go to Laredo on the US side.
I was at Costa Maya and Cozumel last week. Took a tour 100 miles into the Yucatan to see the Mayan ruins at Chicha Itza. Never a problem at all. But I don't think I'd go back on my own.0 -
Mexico has become a 3rd or 4th world country. They cannot control their interor much less their border.
This is what the (D)'s want in this country inorder to take ove and form a socil-ist/fascist/communist government and destroy our rights accorded to us by the constitution.
The (D)'s and their antifa thugs will try and make this happen.0 -
So, Rocky, you went to Chichen Itza? Is that place fantastic or what.
Remember, the first time I went down to the Yucatan I drove down from Georgia. In that year, 1970, the main highway went right between the pyramids!
That was one of my main draws to Mexico to see those fantastic Maya ruins there in the Yucatan. Also a real nice pyramid at Tulum, right on the ocean. Built right on a cliff over the ocean.
We were staying at a place near Tulum, back in 1987 about ten of us Gringos would sneak in to that archeological site, we climbed up that pyramid about 60 feet, that Tulum pyramid is not as high as Chichen Itza it is only about 90 feet high.
We would sit up there at midnight, ten of us Gringos, drinking wine and smoking various substances, and looking out into the Caribbean.
The water was so clear, that in the bright moonlight you could see the ocean floor 200 yards out into the sea.
Damn that was magical to be on that ancient pyramid at midnight in the light of the full moon.
But all that is in the rear-view mirror now and I ain't going back.
As for Laredo, I am in Laredo right now at the TA truck stop at mm 12, ie, 12 miles from the Rio Grande. I spend a lot of time in Laredo I haven't been aware of any danger. One terminal I go to, Exel, is 1/4 mile from the border and I have never had any problem there.
I hear that Nuevo Laredo is pretty bad lots of drug shootings there.
There is a guy who hangs out here between the Flying J and the TA truck stops, he has a van and for ten bucks he will take you in to Mexico for a few hours, talks about cute 17 year old Mexican girls and the things you can do with them.
No way, Jose, I am not crossing that border.0 -
I was crossing into reynosa when i was 14(buying a sack of garlic and a sack of chili petins and sellin after scholl to the mex neighborood grocery stores in the front yarsd of their homes (1954)
65 was working in saltillo and montreey at brick plants and cement factories 1974 was working back in mexico . Thats when I carried a chief special.
up till that time I had been jailed twice for not having proper documents to work in Mex.
I live near mcallen across from reynosa and havent stepped foot in Mexico since Xmas eve 2004.
anyone going in is fair game
by the way I am a blue eyed GRINGO0 -
Allen, I knew you go to Laredo regularly. Outside of the truck stops and other "gringo" places, I hear the city is little different from across the river. But, I haven't been there since 1970, so it's all hearsay. One of my memories is of a storefront just off the bridge, with a sign that said (so help me) Habla Ingles. 0 -
Only trip that I made into Mexico was in 1977. I was 13 and my family and I went from Laredo to Nuevo Larado for an evening. Talk about a tourist trap. Saw some sights, ate some food, bought some trinkets, came back a couple of hours later and everyone got sick for the next 2 days. I have no reason to want to go back.
That being said, I do miss Chi-Chi's.
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I did have a buddy who got into a jam in Laredo a few years back.
He was at the big Flying J truck stop. Went inside to get a shower.
When he got back, his little dog was barking and raising hell. The little dog kept looking up towards the ceiling.
The driver just figured his dog was going nuts. He cranked it up and headed north on I 35.
Well, right there on I 35 nb mm 30 is a Federal inspection station.
All vehicles must exit and get inspected. They are pretty serious I have seen lots of people getting handcuffed there.
So the cops are looking at his truck, next thing he knew he was standing on the ground getting handcuffed.
On most of the trucks back 5 years ago, there was a hollow space on top of the cab. There was a fiberglass "wind shield" there in front but if you looked at the cab from behind you could see a hollow space six feet wide and three feet long, about 4 feet high.
While he was taking a shower, Jose and Mario had climbed up there and were hiding in the hollow spot. They were getting a free ride into El Norte.
Well my buddy had a lot of 'splainin to do but after a few hours they let him go.
His little dog was smarter than he was.0 -
I was on a research team working on Isla San Estaban in the Sea of Cortez back in the late 80's-early 90's. The only problems ever encountered were 1. Federales looking for mordida, scorpions, hurricane that put three boats on the beaches.
After 2000 I was going to conference in Rio Rico, a few miles from the border. As usual about 2008 we went first to Nogales on the way, to have dinner, buy rum and other goods. It was a ghost town, the favorite restaurant of many years was closed, so was the liquor store I had been buying my favorite rum from for decades, as well as the leather store and other places. Finally found a liquor store, got some Dominican Rum and went to a steak house across the border in Arizona. Have not been back and have no reason to, but I miss Ron Potosi.0 -
2016 - Mexico's Vigilante State. Won't happen here.
What's worse, paying extortion or protection.?
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Shook down by mex police in '88. %$#@ that poophole.
Dead mex means less future demonrats.
I'm OK with that0
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