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re: Cancun vacationers run for their lives as armed gang on jet skis hit beach and open fire
Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:19 am to SUB
Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:19 am to SUB
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Cartels are getting stupid. Once they start hurting Mexico's main tourism hub, they are going to catch a lot of heat from their own government as well as U.S. and others.
it ain't working, I recall circa 2008-2009? Mexico named some bigshot retired generalissimo as the new drug czar for the Cancun/Cozumel area and within a week the cartel kidnapped, tortured, and murdered him then cut his head off and stuck it on a pole by a sign welcoming tourists to Cancun as they were exiting the airport, it stayed up there for a few days
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Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:23 am to SUB
It has been frequently speculated and sometimes reported that the cartels launder money through these resorts. This seems likely to be cartels fighting over these assets. Might even be a warning from the cartel that was involved with the Hyatt property to the one involved with this hotel. Just an idea.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:27 am to MrLSU
Sounds like something from a 007 movie
Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:29 am to jaytothen
quote:. I keep an AR and 500rds in the OL’s beach bag jic, baw.
This never happens at the 30A beaches
Posted on 12/8/21 at 11:32 am to MrLSU
Well it is mexico still
Posted on 12/8/21 at 12:25 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Looks like all mexicans on the beach. Where are the gringos?
I went in 2011. There were more international people there than gringos. Vacationers from all over the world.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 12:27 pm to 777Tiger
Time to send in the big guns in response.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 12:50 pm to bhtigerfan
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Why the frick does anyone go to Cancun? Playa Del Carmen is so much nicer.
They are there as well. They just aren't shooting the beaches up yet. Matter of time.......
Posted on 12/8/21 at 12:53 pm to MrLSU
Some people enjoy lying around in the sand soaking up sun. Others enjoy storming a beach on jetskis, armed with automatic weapons. Different strokes.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 1:53 pm to Palomitz
quote:I was there in 2004 and it was nice but the solicitations were relentless. Everywhere you went, it was "buy this, come here, buy that." It was exhausting, and everything outside of the resorts was unsafe.
Exactly. I went in 2000 and liked it so much that I returned in 2001. Would not take my family there, the Cartels took over.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 1:57 pm to bhtigerfan
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Why the frick does anyone go to Cancun? Playa Del Carmen is so much nicer.
My Marriott credit card gave me 4 nights and 5 days at one of their hotels on the beach for a total price of $250. They also gave 15000 points on top of it.
I guess I'm going to Cancun.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:00 pm to QJenk
The beaches on the Ames in Israel always have armed Israelis on them. Outside of liking their weapon choices it’s never really phased me.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:04 pm to Oates Mustache
We need ol jet ski jump baw from a few yrs ago.
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:07 pm to blueboy
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Everywhere you went, it was "buy this, come here, buy that.
first time outside the US?
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everything outside of the resorts was unsafe.
you're kidding, right? Cancun is pretty much Orlando, on second thought, you've got a valid point
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:11 pm to MrLSU
This is bad news for all those cosmopolitan travelers who are just too cool to go to a safe vacation spot. Mexico is completely fine! You just have to be careful like anywhere else!
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:24 pm to 777Tiger
quote:Many times. Nowhere has it been as relentless as in Cancun.
first time outside the US?
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:25 pm to blueboy
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Nowhere has it been as relentless as in Cancun.
you probably wouldn't like Jamaica then
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:33 pm to SUB
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Cartels are getting stupid. Once they start hurting Mexico's main tourism hub, they are going to catch a lot of heat from their own government as well as U.S. and others.
This used to be why the French Quarter had heavy police presence and low crime. Keep the tourists coming no matter what.
Current city admin is too dumb to even do that so…
This post was edited on 12/8/21 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:37 pm to 777Tiger
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you probably wouldn't like Jamaica then
Or Costa Rica
Posted on 12/8/21 at 2:38 pm to LSUGrrrl
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Or Costa Rica
or the DR, or....
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