Level 4 travel warning

What is mind boggling to me is most people that ask these questions believe they are safe in the U.S. I am very comfortable walking around Zihua at night to one of our favorite restaurants. When we visit places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas or New Orleans my head is on a constant swivel. Mexico doesn’t kill people for sport.

I agree. I lived in a several cities and several rather lawless places in Florida. Drunk rednecks and car rage crazies were the worst threats. Not poor dark-skinned people even though I frequently worked in public housing projects. The only time I've ever been shot at was by a couple of road rage crazies in Florida.

Mexico has its share of crazy cave men who kill women whom they believe spurn them, and we've enacted feminicidio laws to deal with them. But that's an entirely separate problem. The majority of the numbers that make up our homicide statistics can best be described as mostly gang warfare. Though I still wouldn't say that the old Guerra Sucia is entirely over either. As our presidenta often says when reporters or foreigners ask why she's able to mingle so much with the public: amor con amor se paga. But the converse is also true. Old wars never end entirely.