Comments on: Mexico Sees More Tourists, Despite Uptick in Violence http://travelojos.com/2009/02/mexico-sees-more-tourists-despite-uptick-in-violence/ The Latin America Travel Blog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 00:19:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://travelojos.com/2009/02/mexico-sees-more-tourists-despite-uptick-in-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-256 admin Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:37:48 +0000 http://travelojos.com/?p=676#comment-256 Thanks Mike. I was looking at the book <em>A People's Guide to Mexico</em> on Amazon the other night and noticed that someone basically highjacked the Web page with all of these comments about how dangerous Mexico is. It seems like there are better things to argue about than whether Mexico is dangerous or not. Thanks Mike. I was looking at the book A People’s Guide to Mexico on Amazon the other night and noticed that someone basically highjacked the Web page with all of these comments about how dangerous Mexico is. It seems like there are better things to argue about than whether Mexico is dangerous or not.

]]> By: Mexico Mike http://travelojos.com/2009/02/mexico-sees-more-tourists-despite-uptick-in-violence/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Mexico Mike Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:39:35 +0000 http://travelojos.com/?p=676#comment-226 Amen and well-said. I got three emails in the last hour from people who were afraid to go to Cancun for spring break. I have a page on the relative safety of Mexico on my web site and actually get hate mail because of it. I forwarded your article to them and will copy it with credit and a link on my site. Below is an excerpt from my new book on Mexican society, due out at the end of the year. BTW, there have consistently been around 700,000 kidnappings reported in the USA each year for the last five. Most of those were children, but kidnappings of persons over 18 were around 170,000. The number of homicides in the USA for 2007 (latest full statistics available) was 14,831. Using the statistics of the US State Department, between 2002 and 2005, there were 113 Americans who died in Mexico from homicides in the whole period. That’s 28 per year. Twenty-eight. 28! How many millions and millions of tourists went to the country in that time? 20 Americans per year died in Mexico from drowning. Eleven per year were suicides. How many people were gunned down in the entire USA in that time? (Excepted from the book, 'Modern Mexico Through The Eyes of Modern Mexicans.' University of Texas Pan American Press, 2009. Amen and well-said. I got three emails in the last hour from people who were afraid to go to Cancun for spring break. I have a page on the relative safety of Mexico on my web site and actually get hate mail because of it. I forwarded your article to them and will copy it with credit and a link on my site. Below is an excerpt from my new book on Mexican society, due out at the end of the year.

BTW, there have consistently been around 700,000 kidnappings reported in the USA each year for the last five. Most of those were children, but kidnappings of persons over 18 were around 170,000. The number of homicides in the USA for 2007 (latest full statistics available) was 14,831.

Using the statistics of the US State Department, between 2002 and 2005, there were 113 Americans who died in Mexico from homicides in the whole period. That’s 28 per year. Twenty-eight. 28! How many millions and millions of tourists went to the country in that time? 20 Americans per year died in Mexico from drowning. Eleven per year were suicides. How many people were gunned down in the entire USA in that time? (Excepted from the book, ‘Modern Mexico Through The Eyes of Modern Mexicans.’ University of Texas Pan American Press, 2009.

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