Double standard at work

webmanco says on Dec 1, 2006, 04:08:

Nuveo Laredo, is it in Colombia? :)
It happens mostly to people who somehow are involved in shadow business, but not one is guilty until proven otherwise. Well that is what is said.

Here is an article from 2005, I don't think things had change much.

...A yo, déjenme queto y no me jodan má! ...

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nine inch nails says on Dec 1, 2006, 06:33:

TEXAS MEXICO No doubt. Please see my post in the South Florida Sun Sentinel from this morning. I've been contemplating a move back to Texas the last year but all the trouble in Mexico lately gives me second thoughts. It is nice to live in U.S. but also be close to another country.



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Does anyone know how safe Matamoros is? Use to like to go there while visiting a friend from college who lived in Brownsville and went back across for only 10 min. last summer.

First thing I noticed was a guy in a station wagon trying to hock drugs to me in broad daylight and this was within clear sight of the border crossing.

Think I'll stay with South Florida and Colombia trips. At least in CO they have security/militar all over the place in populated areas. I didn't see any federales in Matamoros yet since the central Mexican Govt. in general is corrupt and ineffective should I have?

Mexico needs a real strong leader like Uribe.

"They know nothing, they know nothing." J. Cramer

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ColombiaBoard says on Dec 1, 2006, 06:44:

Statistics You should see the statistics about americans kidnapped and murdered in Tijuana, and it's not just only mexican-americans, it's many retired americans to choose that region to live.

I have always said in this forum that the double standard has to do with economic issues. The day Colombia has a free trade agreement with the US and hundreds of companies open their subsidiaries here and six or eight american resorts operate on the caribbean coast that day "suddendly" the "bad press" will banish. Imagine what would happen to the billions of dollars invested by american resort and hotel companies if Mexico started to receive bad press the way Colombia does.

I can't believe that there were bombings in Mexico city and it was barely reported by the american media, but when that happens in Bogota then it's a big scream, why the difference? and look at what's happening in Oaxaca.

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seabass says on Dec 1, 2006, 06:52:

Exactly 2 years ago today, I got a wild hair and took a trip to Nuevo Laredo. I visited the downtown bars then did the Boystown thingy. The whole place was deader than Kelsey's nuts.

Maybe I just went at the slow time of the year or maybe the locals knew something I didn't but if I knew then about the danger, I probably would of passed on visiting.

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aztec says on Dec 1, 2006, 07:09:

News this past year documents... ...there are places in Mexico more dangerous than Colombia or any other place in Central or South America. The border area is obvious but several of the cities are also too dangerous for site seeing.

Mexico is in danger of becoming ungovernable. Or as everyone used to allege about Colombia the country is fast becoming a Narco State.

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Mr. Hollywood says on Dec 1, 2006, 12:55:

Double Standard? UC, just in the last month I've seen a HUGE New York Times story about violence and kidnapping in Mexico and the Los Angeles Times did a big piece about rich Mexicans fleeing Tijuana and moving to San Diego because of the massive kidnapping problem there.

So, no, I don't think there's any double standard at work. I've also seen numerous pieces in the media about the Nuevo Laredo problems, including the mass murders of women there.

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Crazy4Cali says on Dec 1, 2006, 13:23:

Los Narcos We'll know that the standard has changed when you watch a police or crime drama and the Narco that the police are after is from a notorious Mexican drug cartel.

Right now, if there's a drug-related character it seems like they are always of Colombian origin (and an organized crime character is usually of Russian origin).

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Colombiche says on Dec 1, 2006, 13:37:

The bad guys in Hollywood movies are usually arabs, colombians, russians or outer-space aliens.

No me den trago extranjero, que es caro y no sabe a bueno.... (Rafael Godoy)

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miamimike says on Dec 1, 2006, 13:46:

Bad areas in both countries and I see Lots of Mexican News the Border areas have been lawless for a long time. In Guadalajara, many Americans still move there daily and no reports from Americans being harassed or sequestered from friends who currently reside in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Petty crime exists but thats normal for any big city! Look at Miami where I live ! LOL That word from folks on the streets daily BTW...

"Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? That's interesting. I hadn't heard that." -- Feb. 28, 2008 --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.

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strata2woman says on Dec 1, 2006, 17:04:

Dont' forget the Sicilians - My car license plate reads "COL SIC" and uderneath "Cuidado 50% Colombian 50% Sicilian". I can at the same time break up your knee caps or give you a colombian necktie. A great coastal hot temperament. I don't give a care about stereotypes.
Corroncha and proud of it!

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin

- "con sombrero vueltiao y abarcas de tres puntá"

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poco says on Dec 1, 2006, 17:25:

Maybe He Did ??? Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

Janis Joplin

PS: Are we sure Janis is dead ??? Maybe she is in Mexico ?

"When you men get home and face an anti-war protester, look him in the eyes and shake his hand. Then, wink at his girlfriend, because she knows she's dating a pussy." Quote - General Tommy Franks

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