Ken Cooke
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Baja Safety During Spring Break
link: http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110225-travel-and-securit...
Cabo San Lucas
Located on the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Cabo San Lucas and the greater Los Cabos region has been relatively insulated from the
country’s drug-related violence and can be considered one of the safer places in Mexico for foreign tourists. Although historically it has been a stop
on the cocaine trafficking routes, Cabo San Lucas’ strategic importance decreased dramatically after the heyday of cartel activities there in the late
1990s, as the Tijuana cartel lost its contacts with Colombian cocaine suppliers (the result of joint U.S.-Colombian counternarcotics activities). Over
the last five years, drug trafficking in the area has been limited. Still, the southern Baja is part of Mexico, and Cabo San Lucas has ongoing
problems with crime, including kidnapping, theft and assault as well as some continuing drug trafficking. Despite the relative lack of cartel violence
in the area, official statistics for the greater Los Cabos region show nine deaths in 2010, up from one in 2009.
Read more: Travel and Security Risks over Spring Break in Mexico | STRATFOR
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CortezBlue
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I'm not sure where you are going with this? 
From what I read in the article it is more of the same.
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mcfez
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I dont see any issues for travelers on the entire Sea of Cortez side
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Dave
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Safety?
Having lived here for almost a dozen years I can attest that Baja's inhabitants have more to fear from spring breaker's than they from us.
Do us all a favor. Convince the spoiled brats to stay home.
[Edited on 3-13-2011 by Dave]
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Go have a good time... spring breaks back in the 60's were to live for.. aaahhh youth, and even if your not a spring chicken there's nothing wrong in
my book...
thanks for the memories..... way to old and beat up to go, at this time ... if I could, I would... been back up three months ......
Just think of that first cold one going down looking out at the ocean .. inside or the outside... a fire at night ... in a different world.. why NOT!!
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gnukid
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There is no reason or evidence to suggest that stratfor is a balanced or non-biased news source, quite the opposite, read the text, watch their videos
and you can see they not reporting, they are leading story telling with little basis in factual reality. Stratfor is apparently a tool of manipulation
of perception while not a news source of factual news reporting. Consider actual news sources and your experience as a superior source.
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Ken Cooke
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| Quote: | Originally posted by CortezBlue
I'm not sure where you are going with this?
From what I read in the article it is more of the same. |
The article states that Baja as a whole is not a particularly dangerous place.
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mcfez
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Spring breakers
Some of them are rowdy....just as we were a time ago. The majority of the kids are just having a good time. I have been to Spring Break destinations
at the same time...sure the town is over filling with kids. The bars and restaurants are overfilling their banks.
And I have seen some kids too rowdy, and a few fights. Overall...it's not bad....Spring Breaks are bout the same as Sturgis .....
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
Some of them are rowdy....just as we were a time ago. The majority of the kids are just having a good time. I have been to Spring Break destinations
at the same time...sure the town is over filling with kids. The bars and restaurants are overfilling their banks.
And I have seen some kids too rowdy, and a few fights. Overall...it's not bad....Spring Breaks are bout the same as Sturgis .....
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Bob Durrell
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durrelllrobert
Funniest thing this week here :-)
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Bajahowodd
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It's the Intel Equivalent of the Drudge Report
| Quote: | Originally posted by gnukid
There is no reason or evidence to suggest that stratfor is a balanced or non-biased news source, quite the opposite, read the text, watch their videos
and you can see they not reporting, they are leading story telling with little basis in factual reality. Stratfor is apparently a tool of manipulation
of perception while not a news source of factual news reporting. Consider actual news sources and your experience as a superior source.
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Stratfor is one of these snake-oil disinfo sales firms that traffics in "intelligence briefings" for people gullible enough to pay for them. Imagine
that: you can get lied to for free all over this great land, but some people actually pay to be deceived!
From time to time, they send a free one out via email. Stratfor's track record in Latin America is abhorrent (how many years in a row did it predict
that Hugo Chavez would not survive that year as Venezuela's president?). It's "spin" is ideological: pro-corporate, which is no surprise, given that
it's undisclosed clientele purchases something called "Business Intelligence Services."
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