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December 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
US Murder Rates
July 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Let’s get this out to the local papers, and forward to all our friends so that they can get a more realistic and balanced perspective and realize that Mexico is still relatively safe! … It’s as always, a matter of exercising common sense and taking the same precautions we would take whenever we visit any large city, whether in the US, or anywhere abroad!
On a parallel note, all this bad publicity is great for other tourist destinations who have multi million advertising budgets, and a blood hungry media that is more than happy to keep these stories alive. After all, Americans will continue to take vacations, but instead of going to Mexico, they are going to go to Las VEGAS, or to FLORIDA, or to HAWAII, or to the CARIBBEAN! … These are very powerful lobbies! … This is not to say that the inter cartel wars are not frightening and tragic, but as the below statistics prove, it’s almost 100% drug and gang related! … Carlos Irvine
This is a very interesting article sent to me yesterday…..any comments???
Zacatecas – older than Boston, and safer.There’s been a lot of news coverage about violence in Mexico, very little of it bothering to note that Mexico is a huge country with thirty-some states and that; a) almost all of that violence is narco-related and b) you can count the number of tourists affected on one hand. Meanwhile, according to the FBI, “An estimated 15,241 persons were murdered nationwide in 2009″ in the United States of America. Officially, 111 U.S. citizens were killed in Mexico last year, a third in just two cities. Almost all of them were involved in illicit vocations, usually the trafficking of guns, drugs, or people across the border. This is 111 out of close to 8 million visitors, with nearly 1 million of those being part- or full-time residents choosing Mexico over the U.S. or Canada. You know who else had 111 murders in one year recently? Boston. And Las Vegas. And Orlando. Are any tourists scared of going to those places? Meanwhile, almost 1,000 U.S. citizens died in Puerto Rico. Then there’s the U.S. proper, which can’t get a State Department travel alert because it’s, well, not a foreign country. How’s your city doing in comparison to Mexico when it comes to the annual numbers? Atlanta – city, 80 murders. Atlanta MSA (metropolitan statistical area), 325 murders Baltimore – 238 city, 298 MSA Boston – 50 city, 111 MSA Dallas/Ft. Worth – 210 city, 310 MSA Detroit – 365 city, 447 MSA Houston – 287 city, 462 MSA Indianapolis – 100 city, 111 MSA Jacksonville, FL – 99 city, 120 MSA Kansas City – 100 city, 163 MSA Las Vegas – 111 city, 133 MSA Los Angeles – 312 city, 768 MSA Miami – 59 city, 377 Miami to Boca Raton corridor New Orleans – 174 city, 252 MSA New York City – 471 city, 778 MSA Orlando – 28 city, 111 MSA Philadelphia – 302 city, 436 MSA Phoenix – 122 city, 302 MSA San Francisco – 45 city, 292 MSA St. Louis – 143 city, 210 MSA Washington, DC – 143 city, 325 MSA To put things in perspective, the murder rate in the Yucatan state of Mexico is 2 per 100,000. Mexico City’s is 8 per 100,000. Despite being one of the most populated cities on the planet, that’s on par with Albuquerque, NM. I __._,_.___ |
