Don't forget that with the Patriot Act the US also has a guilty until proven innocent law. This is so much crap, all this negative publicity. When we got back from Mexico, we found out there were two stabbings , a shooting and two arsons in Calgary. Come on. Be realistic.
Jim, 2012-02-07 21:01:27

I just don't understand some of you. I smoked for forty years and didn't get cancer. Does that mean it's safe to smoke? Go somewhere else sunny with your family.
Roy, 2012-02-07 16:51:27

Wow everyone has to remember crime is everywhere.

We have travelled in Mexico numerous times since 1993, with my in-laws or with my wife and kids. Bring any tourist to attend a kids’ hockey game in any arena in Ontario or Quebec talk about violent behaviour.

Remember last summer in Barrie a man got murdered in front of his son at a mini-golf place in the afternoon. Riot in Vancouver the stabbing in coach buses in Manitoba not sure location.

A man died last summer in Montreal when he received a ricochet bullet from the cops not intend to him at all.

All those crime with bikers or drug and gang related. Remember that kids few years ago got bet up to death because he had wrong color on him at the bus station.

That only the one I remember now and that doesn’t included those entire one that we don’t know.

Also spend 4 years in Germany; we could not be freelancing in a forewing place with out restriction.

But wow my time there was one of the best one for my wife and I.

Back to Mexico, my 18 years old daughter still want to go back this summer and she does read all the news and bad press about it. And she asks me the entire time dad I think that you make sense when you said that the best weapon in the world doesn’t have a trigger. And do you know why there is no trigger on the best weapon in the world quite simple because we call it the ‘media’

We don’t even watch the T.V. anymore for dinner because it is all negative so we listen to the music for the family dinner, again that something that most of Canadian of today don’t do anymore.

Every vacation that we spend in Mexico it is like the best relaxing time in our life.

No TV. No phone, no cars just lovely weather with amazing food and people who are just like us with there family, they want the best for them also.

Thank you

StephenD., 2012-02-07 15:18:25

We have travelled to Mexico numerous times in the past. Mostly it was safe.....however, not anymore. As cited in other comments, Mexicos' accusitory law(you are guilty until proved innocent), the police and Gov't. cooruption, the unstoppable drug cartels make it a very unattractive place to vacation..truth is , the resorts are beautiful, but outside them in the general population, Mexico, because of its blatant cooruption, is a severely poor country, whose population stuggles for the most part, to have a decent life....When the gov't. finally gains control of the lawlessness and corrution, and drug cartels , then I will return.
max zarnoff, 2012-02-07 13:21:56

I think the people that complain about mexico are either blind and deaf or are in the travel business and are trying to discourage tourists from leaving the country and spending their money with them. We are in cabo san lucas mexico and they awarded the G-20 World Conference to this region ---even though they didnt have a convention centre----because of its safe destination----TOUCHE
james duffin, 2012-02-07 12:50:24

Just got back from three weeks in Puerto Vallarta. We did not stay in the all inclusive compounds but stayed at a hotel in the centro area. Thousands of expats live there scattered in amongst the mexican citizens. I never felt threatened at any point and enjoyed interacting with the people we met.

I have already booked again for next year and can't wait to go.
Jim, 2012-02-07 11:05:19

we have crime everywhere in the world but come on it's no secret that Canadians seem to be getting picked off one by one lately so no thanks on the Mexico thing....I'll go somewhere else.
CE, 2012-02-07 09:25:32

If you go to a third world country for your vacation where the cops have to hide their faces to avoid their families being massacred then you get what you deserve. I guess you got a great deal on the price?
Roy, 2012-02-07 08:15:18

My husband and I made the decision about five years ago that we would no longer travel to Mexico. At the time, my friends scoffed at me. Now, hardly anyone I know--all educated, informed, travelers--will consider the idea of traveling to Mexico. If anyone thinks that they can just "be careful" or stay in a "safe" place, they are very naive and uninformed.
Susan, 2010-04-14 10:49:46

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

clicknpayday, 2010-04-09 17:18:17