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Fast and Furious Weapon Found In Shoot Out in Border Town

Posted by khalling 11 years, 11 months ago to News
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Having spent lots of time in Puerto Penasco I am empathizing the fear vacationers and homeowners felt during this extremely unusual confrontation. Helicopters! Grenades! gunfire! lasting for hours! Puerto Penasco is about 35k and the stretch of beach where this happened is the hotel zone where the majority of the norte americanos vacation. It is a beautiful and usually an extremely safe place to be. How many more fast and furious weapons were involved in this shootout. This incident will likely kill tourism in this town. tens of thousands americans own property there.
SOURCE URL: http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/31/justice/mexican-shootout-fast-and-furious/

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  • Posted by $ minniepuck 11 years, 11 months ago
    you're right. I declined an invitation to Mexico last month because I just don't trust that incidents like these won't happen. I used to visit a few times a year. now - - not at all.
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    • Posted by khalling 11 years, 11 months ago
      that's sad. Even with this incident, tell me they are not happening in your nearby city.
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      • Posted by $ minniepuck 11 years, 11 months ago
        it does make me sad when I think about it. there are lots of people I'd love to see that I haven't in a long time. in the town I used to visit there was a mass killing a year or two ago. overnight about 30 people gone... it's all incomprehensible to me whether the reasons be drugs or anything else. this town is not a resort or vacation spot where it's supposed to be safe, but it was enough for me to say no more to everything.
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        • Posted by khalling 11 years, 11 months ago
          I am sorry. I'm not sure where that is. but I can tell you I live in Mexico and am very safe. statistically speaking much safer than the Colorado city I moved from. For sure cartels are bad. War on Drugs. false markets. to make you feel a little better, I recently heard cartels were making more money by selling iron to China. no-they're not stealing it. it's actually a black market industry. see, in Mexico the govt says they own all the resources. Gallic shrug. so do you blame those for undermining that concept? pun intended. evil is evil. industry without force is not evil. if they move in that direction...well, hopefully so
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  • Posted by jimslag 11 years, 11 months ago
    I spent more than a few days in Puerto Penasco back in the 90's. The hotels were nice, beer was cheap (I still drank back then) and the beach was good for eye candy ( I was single then). Met lots of Americans who had property in the area or who were thinking about it. Back then, you just had to watch for the bandidos on the highway between the Point and the Arizona border. I never had a problem but there were some reports. It seems as if the cartel bosses like the beaches also and were trying to partake of the local scene. It seems as if the drug thing is everywhere now and it is sad because the local people are the ones that are hurt the most because they lose income and maybe their lives.
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    • Posted by khalling 11 years, 11 months ago
      one major drug lord owns a a very large stake in a major resort there. It is many miles outside of town the other direction though. and his offspring each own large condominium complexes next door. I may be naive, but the cartel had not been a huge presence there. but the downturn in the US economy has hit that town hard. hundreds maybe over a thousand condos were foreclosed. the economy suffers hugely. It's a time for the bad element to infiltrate. It's a beautiful place and for Arizonans in the desert- ocean in under 3 hours driving! Luckily, there is a ton of cooperation between US authorities and Sonoran authorities since it's in the "americanized" zone. For a year I traveled that main corridor all the time and felt safe as houses. Our car was robbed one time at a fair. it's kind of a funny story. I'll post it sometime.
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