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re: Cartels retaliating at Guadalajara airport after a cartel leader was eliminated
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:14 am to CrappyPants
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:14 am to CrappyPants
You have any idea how compromised they are?
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:14 am to Stat M Repairman
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Somebody on here is stuck in Mexico right now with a wife and kids that wanted to go to Disney World but an all inclusive in PV was 1/4 of the price.
Still better than Disney World. Think of all the memories created on this trip.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:41 am to BottomlandBrew
We landed Saturday night. Flight was delayed out of CUN but that was weather related. Apparently the fires have begun starting in Cancun and Playa del Carman now as well. Our trip was absolutely amazing though. Sucks for the people stuck there currently but I’m guessing it subsides sooner than later.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:44 am to Drank
I'm supposed to go to Sinaloa Mexico in March. Wonder if I can get a job with The Cartel?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 7:54 am to idlewatcher
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If I were in a resort hotel with my family, I’d go into the community and pay a family 5K to let us stay with them until things cool down.
It won't. Lol. The family you stay with most likely won't have AC.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:09 am to TheOcean
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I think they will take US citizens as hostages.
Cartels aren't that dumb
Tourism benefits the economy and the cartels are deeply embedded in the economy, so tourism benefits them. Tourists are generally left alone. The few times tourists have been targeted have been mistaken identity or rogue elements that the cartels have apologized for. The airport attacks are against the government, not the tourists per se. Never say never, but I dont expect the resorts themselves to be targeted.
If that sounds like I'm defending the cartels, I'm not, but people act in their own interest, and it's in the cartels' interest to keep the tourism cash flowing.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:10 am to Drank
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the fires have begun starting in Cancun and Playa del Carman
As long as they don't burn down Xplor Park before we can get back there. My wife wants to go again.
A friend of mine has an office in Playa, and the guy who manages it for him lives in a resort. Hope he is OK.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:19 am to Jim Rockford
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Tourism benefits the economy and the cartels are deeply embedded in the economy, so tourism benefits them. Tourists are generally left alone. The few times tourists have been targeted have been mistaken identity or rogue elements that the cartels have apologized for
Not just tourism but American companies as well
A lot of American companies have manufacturing and/or offices in Torreón, and I have done business there as well. The Government specifically tells the cartel leave Americans alone, and we won't bother you too much. We would fly in on my associate's jet so I was always worried they would think we were rich targets for ransom because no doubt the cartel watches the airport.
John Deere has a huge facility there and tells American execs that when they go down there they are only allowed to go from the plant to the designated hotel and they have security drive them to and from and stay at the hotel.
We used to stay at the same hotel and found out about John Deere's policy but we would go all over and eat. Some of the best steak I have had in my life I had in Torreón.
TD.com poster Lsaltee has also been to the same office and hotel so he can vouch for what I am saying.
This post was edited on 2/23/26 at 8:33 am
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:20 am to Jim Rockford
This is one time the resorts might be hit because the USA participated in this action.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:26 am to Eurocat
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:29 am to stout
What a karen post
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:31 am to TheOcean
Dude just wants a 4PM check out in the middle of a cartel raid. Is that too much to ask for a platinum elite member?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:33 am to stout
Leaving a bad review on fricking Reddit in the middle of a cartel war? Talk about fricking disconnect from reality. Bragging about 1000 nights in a hotel?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:35 am to TheOcean
We’re scheduled to be in Cancun middle of May, and my wife is freaking out worrying this will wreck everything. Usually it feels like this stuff gets isolated to pockets where only locals and cartels are affected. It spilling over into international settings like airports is pretty scary. Sucks, hope it simmers down over the next 2+ months!
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:44 am to stout
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Not just tourism but American companies as well
A lot of American companies have manufacturing and/or offices in Torreón, and I have done business there as well. The Government specifically tells the cartel leave Americans alone, and we won't bother you too much. We would fly in on my associate's jet so I was always worried they would think we were rich targets for ransom because no doubt the cartel watches the airport.
John Deere has a huge facility there and tells American execs that when they go down there they are only allowed to go from the plant to the designated hotel and they have security drive them to and from and stay at the hotel.
We used to stay at the same hotel and found out about John Deere's policy but we would go all over and eat. Some of the best steak I have had in my life I had in Torreón.
TD.com poster Lsaltee has also been to the same office and hotel so he can vouch for what I am saying.
When I was a child in the 1970s my grandfather ran operations for a company deep in Mexico. We would drive from New Orleans to see him but take a route that brought us down through Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta. They loved gringos back then and our dollars.
Torreon was one of the stops, along with Saltiillo and Durango, on the beautiful drive from Monterrey to Mazatlan. It is a shame how those cities have devolved. We stayed at a hotel in Torreon called the Paradisio del Desierto. A repurposed chain hotel but the service was next level. I miss those days.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:47 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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We’re scheduled to be in Cancun middle of May
We had one for July.
I already didn't want to go to MX so this may be my opportunity to sway the group to go somewhere else.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:54 am to Sweep Da Leg
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Hey dumbass this isn’t a Chuck Norris movie.
Are you really that naive to the absolute size and force of the US military? They have equipment to dismantle them with ease
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:55 am to CrappyPants
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No offense to the Mexican police authority or government but what Pussies you all are. Handle the cartels once and for all. How pathetic. The cartels outgun them.
They don't outgun them. Government and police officials are in on the take. That's why they turn a blind eye.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:56 am to WigSplitta22
quote:You would have to go scorched earth.
Are you really that naive to the absolute size and force of the US military? They have equipment to dismantle them with ease
And, no, you can’t dismantle an organization like this with ease.
We didn’t really do a bang up job with the taliban and Al Qaeda.
You could argue that we didn’t try hard enough, but with what it would take, it wouldn’t be “with ease”.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 8:58 am to stout
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Dude just wants a 4PM check out in the middle of a cartel raid. Is that too much to ask for a platinum elite member?
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