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re: Cartels retaliating at Guadalajara airport after a cartel leader was eliminated
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:01 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:01 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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We’re scheduled to be in Cancun middle of May
My wife's family lives in Cancun. We have a house in Tulum. I wouldn't think twice about flying to cancun tomorrow
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Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:09 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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We’re scheduled to be in Cancun middle of May, and my wife is freaking out worrying this will wreck everything.
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Sucks, hope it simmers down over the next 2+ months!
Tell her not to worry about it. In 2 months you'll have no issues getting in and out of there.
Setting busses on fire is hardly something I'd worry about. Let me know when they start beheading or killing Americans by the dozens.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:24 am to BeepBopBoop
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Such a rich culture
Progressives and OT above the fray moderates are desperate to import it here.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:30 am to Monday
I think my days of going to Mexico are over
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:33 am to NolaLovingClemsonFan
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We’re scheduled to be in Cancun middle of May, and my wife is freaking out worrying this will wreck everything.
Tell her to calm the frick down, and quit acting spoiled.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:34 am to stout
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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.
When I worked for Nokia, I got stranded in Monterey the weekend of the huge snowstorm in Dallas when they hosted the Super Bowl in 2011.
I was supposed to fly out on Friday afternoon and return on Monday morning because they did not want us spending weekends there. We weren't supposed to stray far from the hotel, but there was an Outback next door and a subway and 7-11 within walking distance. I walked to the 7-11 to buy liquor for the weekend. There were some shady characters hanging around, but no one bothered me.
We had a driver. He was former Mexican special forces. He wore a nice suit with an Uzi tucked inside. One day when we left the plant to return to the hotel he told us we had to take a different route than normal. He wouldn't tell us why, but we found out the next day that there had been a shootout between the cartel and cops in the middle of a major intersection that we would normally pass through. 6 people were killed.
None of my Mexican colleague would go out at night. They would go straight home after work.
On previous trips, going out for drinks after work was the norm.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:41 am to Fun Bunch
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think my days of going to Mexico are over
Wife and I stopped going a few years ago. Between the tourist getting drugged at resorts and ripped off to the cartel violence it just is not worth it anymore.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:41 am to ob1pimpbobi
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:41 am to ob1pimpbobi
I really didn't go that often to begin with, and its been a few years since I have been.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:43 am to Fun Bunch
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I think my days of going to Mexico are over
Ive lived in a handful of different countries.. ive been to Australia, Asia, et al- places where you have airplane legs of 14, 15 hrs nonstop, then usually another shorter leg or two on the journey (even though i fuggin hate flying).. at one point in the US, I lived two hours from the Mexican border… i have never been to Mexico .
Im not sure what that says about me.. guess ive just never been motivated to check it out, and other places interest me more .
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:44 am to Fun Bunch
They set the Costco on fire?
Time to send in Kirkland team 6.
Time to send in Kirkland team 6.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:45 am to hawgfaninc
Is it still popping off today?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:45 am to TulsaSooner78
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we had to take a different route than normal.
in most of the places we stay in SA our ground transportation services are required to mix up their routes to and from airport to the hotel and they're tracked by GPS, drivers get disciplined if they don't keep alternating routes
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:52 am to hawgfaninc
Mexico is what happens when the rule of law is undermined by rampant corruption, indifference, and incompetence. Lawless hellhole.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 9:54 am to DmitriKaramazov
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the rule of law is undermined by rampant corruption, indifference, and incompetence. Lawless hellhole.
are we headed down that route?
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:04 am to Scruffy
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You would have to go scorched earth.
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”.
With current technology and firepower including ISR, MQ-9 Reapers, RQ4s. AGM 158s, and more we could metaphorically neuter any ability they had to conduct operations before we had to put the first helicopters and tanks at risk into the fight.
And when we did it right back when the right folks were in charge it was swift and with resolve as in the first Gulf War.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:10 am to nuwaydawg
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They set the Costco on fire?
No they did not.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:11 am to facher08
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Is it still popping off today?
Not In PV, it is quiet here today. No new fires and all the ones from yesterday have been put out.
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:21 am to facher08
I have a coworker who's mom lives a half hour from where the costco was lit on fire, she said the officials in the community put the town on lockdown, if people are caught outside they are getting arrested
Posted on 2/23/26 at 10:35 am to hubreb
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I have a coworker who's mom lives a half hour from where the costco was lit on fire, she said the officials in the community put the town on lockdown, if people are caught outside they are getting arrested
I am here now and the Costco was never on fire. There were a couple of cars in the parking lot set on fire, not CostCo. You are able to walk around freely but nothing is open. Hotels are still suggesting staying on property. Our flight was canceled for today and the earliest return flights right now are Saturday. Hopefully that changes...
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