Edit: the main danger is the local meth heads ****ing with you but I think that's now of a Baja thing and even that's fairly random but not unheard of.
Yeah especially that area is bad. Then u know of the surfers that got killed I guess a couple years ago. They tried to fight the cartel over their van and I think 10k cash. Bad idea.
Yeah especially that area is bad. Then u know of the surfers that got killed I guess a couple years ago. They tried to fight the cartel over their van and I think 10k cash. Bad idea.
I doubt they were "cartel". Probably just some local gangsters.
I doubt they were "cartel". Probably just some local gangsters.
I think they were cartel. If you do robbings and killings in sinaloa you better are cartel. Or the cartel gets you. They control and police everything. It happened on the 'highway of death' where cartel activity is known.
Here is an article about it. it says the guy that was cartel was let go free. And the ones that were not affilated were thrown under the bus, forced to make a confession. This is what usually happens:
I think they were cartel. If you do robbings and killings in sinaloa you better are cartel. Or the cartel gets you. They control and police everything. It happened on the 'highway of death' where cartel activity is known.
Here is an article about it. it says the guy that was cartel was let go free. And the ones that were not affilated were thrown under the bus, forced to make a confession. This is what usually happens:
I'm not sure what he knows about how the cartels are operating though. They see erything that's happening, like guards guarding their territory. It could have been some methheads imo. But they are living a dangerous life. If the cartel finds out they are killing gringos they are a threat to their business and get killed.
Yep, well roadtripping through 3rd world countries always comes with a little risk.
This guy here seems to agree with you and he has a good point, cartel is dealing with real money. Not killing gringos for a few ks.
'The road to Guadalajara is as sketchy as they come. Californian big wave surfer Rusty Long knows from experience. He drove it just before the 2006 Mexican cartel wars kicked well and truly off, and swears he’ll never do it again.
“To be honest, there’s not a lot of surfers doing that drive down to Mex because of the dangers,” he says. “I’ve done the drive down to Puerto twice before things got gnarly in the last seven or eight years, and I won’t do that drive again.”
It was on this road that Australian surfers Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman were last seen before their blue and white Chevrolet van was discovered burned out on the side of the road with a pair of charred corpses inside. They had just departed the Topolobampo ferry, a place Rusty knows well.
That area is sketchy, straight-up sketchy,” he says. “I took that same ferry across and arrived at Topolobampo at night, as these guys did, and the first I thing I did was pull into the nearest hotel I could find. You don’t wanna take risks driving at night when you’re doing that drive, especially in areas like that.”
I doubt that it was organised crime,” says Rusty. “Those people are dealing with real money. I’m willing to bet it was some real bad-seed bandito kind of guys but I don’t know why they’d take it so far. It’s terrible. It sent some chills through me.”
Although not directly responsible, the cartels still have a role to play.'
I'm not sure what he knows about how the cartels are operating though. They see erything that's happening, like guards guarding their territory. It could have been some methheads imo. But they are living a dangerous life. If the cartel finds out they are killing gringos they are a threat to their business and get killed. Funny thing is I wanted to take that drive to go to vegas etc. and my ex gf (mexican) told me no way. They are avoiding this area like the pest. Take planes instead and def never at nights. Read the articles to see what's going on on that road in recent years. Carjackings murders etc etc. It's very easy to disappear in that area.
'Hundreds of armed men belonging to a newly-formed vigilante group called "El Machete" have abducted 21 people while burning vehicles and at least a dozen homes in a southern Mexico town, officials say. '
Perfect bootleg pills are in the orbit. They are sold in Mexicans pharmacies to Mexican people but US people are buying them too, in Mexico. It is a lot cheaper and it works but with serious side effects. The pills make it all the way into legit US pharmacies thats how perfect they are.
The video has a great message. The problem is that the U.S. and the West is not able to provide the people with the medicine they need. The cartel is filling the gap with those bootlegs.
Since President Calderon declared the war on drugs up to 8M people disappeared. Nobody knows for sure how many. This is the first time the government recognizes this.
Mexico is suing the USA now for 10B
"$10bn
That’s the sum Mexico is seeking from US gunmakers after the country filed a lawsuit in US federal court to hold several firearm manufacturers and distributors accountable for high levels of gun violence in Mexico.
The complaint argues that 70 to 90 percent of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico were trafficked from the US and that the majority of them were made by six US manufacturers.
“Mexico has one gun store in the entire nation and issues fewer than 50 gun permits per year,” despite its astronomical levels of gun violence, the complaint states, adding that “a gun manufactured in the US is more likely to be used to murder a Mexican citizen than an American citizen”.
Al Jazeera’s Ann Deslandes reports on what’s at stake with the unprecedented lawsuit here."
Since President Calderon declared the war on drugs up to 8M people disappeared. Nobody knows for sure how many. This is the first time the government recognizes this.
Mexico is suing the USA now for 10B
"$10bn
That’s the sum Mexico is seeking from US gunmakers after the country filed a lawsuit in US federal court to hold several firearm manufacturers and distributors accountable for high levels of gun violence in Mexico.
The complaint argues that 70 to 90 percent of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico were trafficked from the US and that the majority of them were made by six US manufacturers.
“Mexico has one gun store in the entire nation and issues fewer than 50 gun permits per year,” despite its astronomical levels of gun violence, the complaint states, adding that “a gun manufactured in the US is more likely to be used to murder a Mexican citizen than an American citizen”.
Al Jazeera’s Ann Deslandes reports on what’s at stake with the unprecedented lawsuit here."
The reason there are so many guns coming from the USA into Mexico is they rarely check anyone coming across either
The border is a problem too for smuggling. But not entirely. It's about 50k vehicles a day that cross the border. But even if you seal the border it doesn't change a thing imo. They have tunnels, boats, submarines, drones etc.
Sorry for.spamming videos guys, I just want lozen to see the visuals.
