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by Ray 
, Zihuatanejo, Mexico and Chicago, IL USA, Sunday, October 30, 2016, 10:43 (3668 days ago)
Read this article (link) today. The news coming out Zihuatanejo about the increase in crime and violence is not comforting. I love Zihuatanejo. Still planning to arrive (by air) in January for my annual winter vacation. Let's hope that the news coming out of Zihua gets better before it gets worse.
Stores in Mexico's Zihuatanejo Resort Close to Protest Crime
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Ray,no wonder,its on faux news,keep reading that crap,you'll get smarter..not.
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by ZihuaRob 
, Zihuatanejo, México, Sunday, October 30, 2016, 11:40 (3668 days ago) @ cantinero46
Ray,no wonder,its on faux news,keep reading that crap,you'll get smarter..not.
Making fun of Ray is uncalled for. The article is true. Local business owners are fed up with the municipal government's attitude of simply doing zero zip zilch nothing to combat Zihuatanejo's crime problem. Several business owners staged a public one-day shut-down of their businesses in protest. The mayor is already in campaign mode for his next political position (no re-election) and has washed his hands of any responsibility at all for the safety of Zihuatanejo's citizens and its visitors. We ALL consider his posture irresponsable and unacceptable. Comments made last week here on my Message Board regarding the mayor's unfortunate statement that "crime didn't matter since tourists would come anyway" made the local headlines.
I was taunted here recently for supposedly "not doing enough" to make things better, when the fact that I'm even still alive after all I've said and done over the past 27 years is testament enough as far as I'm concerned because I know what I've said and done and so do a lot of locals. Most folks here in Guerrero who speak out against criminals and corrupt public functionaries disappear or turn up dead. As I emphasized to a query about what's being done, I don't believe in showing one's cards before they are ready to be played and I don't believe in telling the bad guys what's being done period. That's what stupid politicians do. If some of you think that makes me rude then that's what I am. I've lived here and in other similarly lawless places for most of my life, but unlike too many good and decent folks I've known I'm still here to tell about it.
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by dhunsber , ¡Dondequiera que voy, estoy aquí!, Monday, October 31, 2016, 12:53 (3667 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Rob, thanks for the Desmond Dekker (& The Aces) clip.
That's one of my favorite songs
from one of my favorite albums
from one of my favorite movies ever:
The Harder They Come, which I watch at least once a year, having first seen it in 1972 at the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square.
Saludos
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Ray,no wonder,its on faux news,keep reading that crap,you'll get smarter..not.
Here is a link to all the newspapers in Mexico reporting this story.
google list of this story
Here is the link to the New York Times reporting the story.http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/10/28/world/americas/ap-lt-mexico-violence.html
If you have Facebook go to Despertar de la Costa and see videos, including the one of Tamales Any Restaurant.https://www.facebook.com/despertar.delacosta.3/?fref=ts
It is real!
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I worry for the people of Zihuatanejo, how can tourists help to support them in their fight to protect their families?
Been here over a week
by midalake , Monday, October 31, 2016, 09:54 (3667 days ago) @ Sunshine
Well the police shot three people on Tuesday....GOOD they are doing their job.
I have seen no violence and most of my contacts tell me that things are quieter than August. Be vigilant, talking is good. BUT THE REALITY....YOU as a TOURIST are not likely to be involved or a target.
D
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by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Monday, October 31, 2016, 10:48 (3667 days ago) @ midalake
Well the police shot three people on Tuesday....GOOD they are doing their job.
I have seen no violence and most of my contacts tell me that things are quieter than August. Be vigilant, talking is good. BUT THE REALITY....YOU as a TOURIST are not likely to be involved or a target.
D
Right you are, except for tourists driving who have become frequent targets of car thieves, a problem we simply never really used to have except in remote areas. Now car thieves steal cars while their owners are driving them practically in front of the police in broad daylight anywhere they want. But the mayor so far refuses to require the municipal police to do anything other than report for work, sit around all day doing mostly nothing, and collect their paychecks. Oh, and of course provide security for the mayor and his family.
And just to correct, there were 4 people shot last week at the Oxxo on the corner of the airport road and the coastal highway 200. One of them was an innocent bystander and he was in bad shape in an Acapulco hospital last I heard. I believe he will still have to face charges although I've spoken with numerous people including his neighbors who vouch for him as simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time, which it appears he was. But the other 3 were allegedly trying to detain and kidnap a woman driving from Ixtapa who managed to call the police and outrun them until arriving at the airport gas station where the cops were able to arrive in time.
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by midalake , Monday, October 31, 2016, 11:04 (3667 days ago) @ ZihuaRob
Well the police shot three people on Tuesday....GOOD they are doing their job.
I have seen no violence and most of my contacts tell me that things are quieter than August. Be vigilant, talking is good. BUT THE REALITY....YOU as a TOURIST are not likely to be involved or a target.
D
Right you are, except for tourists driving who have become frequent targets of car thieves, a problem we simply never really used to have except in remote areas. Now car thieves steal cars while their owners are driving them practically in front of the police in broad daylight anywhere they want. But the mayor so far refuses to require the municipal police to do anything other than report for work, sit around all day doing mostly nothing, and collect their paychecks. Oh, and of course provide security for the mayor and his family.
Yes the car jacking thing could spill onto tourists. It also may show a greater underlying problem. But I have seen numerous very polished looking patrols both by the military and Marines and check points this week. Some of these "summer skirmishes" seem to disappear by tourist high season. I think the same will happen this year.
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