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They were quite an embarrassment I thought. Since I have never been back, I don't know if that is typical.
This post may probably be ignored; read it at your peril.
I'm in a Facebook group in La Paz Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Originally I joined to help someone sell something to them.
Anyway, these mostly Canadians are all flipping out today. Some are posting they hope Trump dies. WTF?
I have noticed it's difficult to establish friendship with the typical English speaking expats here; they're often kooks, drunks, weirdos, etc. running away from the reality up North.
Some of these kooks have run away to Florida too come to think of it.
I figure some people are just unhappy, which sucks, but not my problem
WookieMan says
I figure some people are just unhappy, which sucks, but not my problem
i really don't give a shit if they are unhappy.
Baja Sur is too far west to be on any major cartel routes. They’re insulated from that threat and probably think Trump is crazy to designate cartels as terror organizations. Ask why they didn’t settle in Sinaloa or Baja Norte, though.
It's a peninsula with open access to South America.
ElYorsh says
It's a peninsula with open access to South America.
I see they can bring up drugs by airplane or ship and drop off at tip of the Baja California peninsula, and then bring it in via ground transportation on the NAFTA route ultimately to Hollywood, Washington DC, and Wall Street coke head$
And find Midwestern white guy that can move the product to Chicago area
ElYorsh says
It's a peninsula with open access to South America.
I see they can bring up drugs by airplane or ship and drop off at tip of the Baja California peninsula, and then bring it in via ground transportation on the NAFTA route ultimately to Hollywood, Washington DC, and Wall Street coke head$
The cartels wage war in the mainland while they traffic quietly by going across the water and up the peninsula.
goofus says
Baja Sur is too far west to be on any major cartel routes. They’re insulated from that threat and probably think Trump is crazy to designate cartels as terror organizations. Ask why they didn’t settle in Sinaloa or Baja Norte, though.
Too far west??? Insulated??? It's actually a major route because of the low population. It's one of the few cartel corridors where they are organized and don't fuck around with each other. It's a peninsula with open access to South America and Mexico's oldest established routes.
Those are the routes that have been discovered. The reason why Baja Sur looks like that is very obvious.
They have a reputation of being cheapskates among the local Mexicans.
Two Jewish kids walked by a church with a sign: "Convert to a Catholic and make $100 today."
"I'm going to check that out." one kid says to the other.
He comes back a half hour later: "So, did they pay you $100?"
"That's all you people think about, money!"
ElYorsh Baja Sur, besides being undeveloped roadwise, is very inconvenient for South American drug routes. Too far west. The west coast of S America is the same longitude as our east coast:
Get out and travel to get some life experience. Trying to figure things out by believing internet propaganda will just leave you more clueless.
ElYorsh says
Get out and travel to get some life experience. Trying to figure things out by believing internet propaganda will just leave you more clueless.
I’m not one for appeals to authority, but Economist, Stratfor, and basic map reading suggest one answer, and Yorsh another. I’m sure there’s drug running and corruption in B Sur too, just not “major cartel routes.” Ah, forget it.
As ElYorsh mentioned, there is cartel activity almost everywhere in Mexico.
Among the Mexican states, Baja Sur has a low level of such problems, but the bottom line is: nowhere in Mexico is entirely safe.
I'm in a Facebook group in La Paz Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Originally I joined to help someone sell something to them.
Anyway, these mostly Canadians are all flipping out today. Some are posting they hope Trump dies. WTF?
I have noticed it's difficult to establish friendship with the typical English speaking expats here; they're often kooks, drunks, weirdos, etc. running away from the reality up North.
Some of these kooks have run away to Florida too come to think of it.