news reporting

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'...