Planning a Trip to Mexico? Beheadings, Hangings, and Drug Violence Rampant Across Country

Scenes from the Mexican Border Towns - image The Blaze.com

Boston Globe Reports on a shootout in Mexico City where 5 people were killed, and notes it may have been related “to drug trafficking, but some parts of Mexico City have seen violence by drug gangs and organized crime, though the capital city is less affected than some other cities. More than 47,500 people have died in violence linked to Mexico's war on drugs nationwide since December 2006”. More than probable, over by the border, twenty three bodies were found, nine of them hung (from a bridge) and another 14 found decapitated (Stars and Stripes). There appears to be a resemblance to the types of violence in Mexico today to that of the Iraqi conflict. Most notably Fallujah, where contractors were hung from a bridge, and the “revenge” decapitations of British citizens and American citizens. Journalism is the most high risk occupation in Mexico, right up there with rival gangs (or cartels).
Borderland Beat latest reports on the decapitations note that the recent deaths were the result of a drug cartel leader’s anger with a local mayor in a power struggle, the following were actions that the “cartel leader” took credit:

On March 26 when they appeared in the border city seven human heads under a narco manta declaring responsibility being El Chapo.
On April 17, 14 dismembered bodies in an abandoned van behind the City Hall, where plastic tarps were left over corpses, attributing the killing also the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
On April 24, the Tamaulipas attorney, Victor Almanza concluded that there is no evidence that the killings were by the criminal group of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, and stressed that the display of the 14 bodies only intended to generate terror, and panic.
Meanwhile, Mayor Benjamin Galvan and together with the Public Safety Director, Alfonso Olvera Ledezma, read a statement which said together that the Sinaloa cartel does not operate in Nuevo Laredo.
The next day, April 25, in response to the above, a car bomb exploded outside the premises of the Ministry of Public Security in Nuevo Laredo.

(Border Beat)

One has to ask themselves, if a vacation is planned, would one want to cross the border into Mexico? The violence is so widespread (see Borderland Beat archives, and or UK papers that documents resort area violence), is it no wonder that Mexican nationals may be entering the U.S. – Perhaps they should be asking for political asylum. Also, one should question the U.S. Governments’ response to the Arizona State law on Illegal Immigration –Arizona and other bordering states have seen an increase in crime as those members of drug cartels have crossed the border on business, and while in the U.S. illegally (drug running, gun running), take time to murder American citizens (among other less deadly crimes).

Apparently, the war directly on the U.S. Mexican border is worth looking at, those attempting to get into the country to avoid the violence, might be allowed a visa or some sort of “pass” especially if they are fleeing for their lives, and finally, the border should be secured, militarily. It appears to be a case of national security.