news reporting

I had some friends come and visit last week here in Zihua and left on a bus to Manzannio and the whole full bus was robbed of valuables ( jewelry, money, and passports) and the police didn't take any statements from any of the victims or offer any help. My friend wanted to know if there was any mention in the newspapers of the incident. I told him that the papers in Mexico aren't big enough to cover all the crap that goes on and the reporting of these issues might hurt tourism. Its not the reporting of such issues but the issue itself that will damage the industry

Very unusual for a bus line to get picked off......... I guess we will see who chimes in here.

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What bus line?

I had some friends come and visit last week here in Zihua and left on a bus to Manzannio and the whole full bus was robbed of valuables ( jewelry, money, and passports) and the police didn't take any statements from any of the victims or offer any help. My friend wanted to know if there was any mention in the newspapers of the incident. I told him that the papers in Mexico aren't big enough to cover all the crap that goes on and the reporting of these issues might hurt tourism. Its not the reporting of such issues but the issue itself that will damage the industry

I would think this would have made the news somewhere but there's a lot of road between Zihua and Manzanillo. Surely your friend provided a few more details about such an alarming event, especially if he's asking if there was any news coverage about it. What town was the bus close to when it happened? It looks like Cuota 200 goes all the way from Z to M, so how did the robbers manage to stop and board a big passenger bus on a main highway? What was the date? Was it day or night? Which bus company?

Happened Jan 14 on a nite bus, 15 minutes north of Lazaro. The 2 robbers were passengers on the bus, guy with the gun went to the driver and the other guy had a knife did the collection, they kept the bus moving for approx 45 minutes, then they got off and the bus continued to the next place where the police were called

Really sorry to hear this.

Unfortunately it's not big news because it happens frequently and there simply are no police capable of investigating and especially there are no public prosecutors capable of prosecuting anyone even if they did catch them. It may have made the local news in Michoacán, but if it happened on a weekend it could easily be missed since many news agencies in Mexico don't work weekends. If the victims don't file police reports and if the bus line doesn't do so either then no pasa nada. This is why I urge folks to use the non-stop buses instead of the ones that stop and pick people up alongside the road. Passengers are supposed to be checked for weapons before boarding at the Central de Autobuses, but that is only for the non-stop luxury class buses.

Perhaps if our Mexican police forces didn't have to concentrate all their efforts and resources fighting the USA's proxy War On Drugs and dealing with the violent organized criminals empowered by a decades-old failed policy that stupidly bans popular inebriating substances they would be able to deal with more routine criminal activities such as bus holdups. Just sayin'...