jack - 2-28-2009 at 05:15 PM
In Canada there was a nation wide travel advisory for Mexico on TV last night.
"Canadians travelling to Mexico should exercise a high degree of caution due to occasional demonstrations and protests, high levels of criminal
activity and violence throughout the country.
Canadians should be particularly vigilant in northern Mexico and all cities bordering the United States, particularly when travelling to the
cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juárez, as firefights between the military and drug cartels can occur without warning at any time. Travellers should
monitor local news before travelling to areas affected by turf wars."
This advisory was aimed mostly at the spring break crowd. They probably should have also put up an advisory for Vancouver, there has been a drug
related gang shooting there just about every day in the last month.
Bajahowodd - 2-28-2009 at 05:18 PM
Maybe they should include just about every big North American City.
astrobaja - 3-1-2009 at 11:43 AM
I heard the same travel advisory on CBC (sirius sat radio) a few days back!
All I can say is then they should extend the same type of travel advisory to Canadians travelling to the US. I read somewhere a statistic that for the
same period of time (something like 15 years) more than twice as many Canadians were murdered while traveling to the US than to Mexico.
It comes down to the individual decisions of those who wish to travel, regardless of these vacuous gov't decrees!
Leo - 3-1-2009 at 12:15 PM
Perfectly right Astro. It is amatter of numbers. More Canadians travel in the US so you get a higher accident rate.
Just stay out of the border cities while in Mexico.
BajaGringo - 3-1-2009 at 02:46 PM
I guess you guys didn't get the memo. This forum is ONLY for dissing Baja and/or Mexico. No USA dissing will be allowed. Even if it is true...
Bajahowodd - 3-1-2009 at 03:10 PM
Memo? Geez. I didn't get no memo.