Confusion

Hi Rob, thank you for your response. The points you make were not clear to me in your earlier posts, and the clarification helps. I was not attempting to “shoot the messenger” as much as I was trying to understand the message.

Of course we are aware of the crime that goes on around us in Guerrero.

Our visitors who drive from Morelia and points inland get their information from sources outside of Troncones, and they make their own decisions about coming here. If they have concerns about the drive and ask my opinion, I tell them to go with their instinct.

The “problem on the highway that passes Troncones” is the same problem that occurs along the 200 from Lazaro Cardenas through Zihuatanejo and on to Acapulco. Saying it’s “a problem that affects Zihuatanejo's reputation simply by virtue of our town's name being always used instead of Troncones to describe the location,” suggests that crime is a problem unique to Troncones, not the highway that passes near here, nor the region. Crime in Zihuatanejo and elsewhere in Guerrero affects our village as well, whether Troncones is mentioned or not.

Finally, I didn’t realize that your comment was “limited to the years-long problem on the highway that passes Troncones,” and not Troncones itself. That makes sense; I wish you’d said that in the original post.