Taxi Terrorists - not at all

by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Monday, November 17, 2014, 14:10 (4302 days ago) @ jr

So you are saying the police wouldn't come? I sincerely doubt that. Has it, in fact, happened that someone has called the police when being harassed by taxistas and the police have refused to come?

Actually, the police come and defend the taxis. I guess I should've spoken more plainly. There was an example of this in the news just a couple of weeks ago.

The thing is, technically we are currently operating in a Twilight Zone as far as the police go. Several months ago the Mando Único was supposed to take control of local public security, but there aren't enough of them and most were sent to Iguala, Chilpancingo and Acapulco to help with the search for the missing students and to try to help restore order. Since they are NOT a locally controlled police force and they do not know the city or the region as well as local police it causes deficiencies in the level of their efficiency. So there are some municipal police operating but since their future is unsure their loyalties are going to be for whomever is paying their paychecks, in other words the municipal government, and noble concepts like "law and order" tend to get lost among the passions of the electoral cycle.

The local government was also supposed to expel the squatters from the illegal settlement known as "Valle Grande" a couple of weeks ago. Had a judge's order and everything, but oops, the local authorities got "locked out" and had their building "taken away" by the "teachers", and everything else except for favorable photo ops and a Saturday radio talk show by the mayor seems to have been forgotten or postponed.

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the taxi protest is a big thing! - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-16, 13:46
- the taxi protest is a big thing! - Charliez, 2014-11-16, 14:04
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    - Why am I leery of visiting Z? - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-16, 16:54
      - Try this Linda - Sun Seeker, 2014-11-16, 17:30
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  - Here we go - Dabuilder, 2014-11-17, 09:06
    - Here we go - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 09:08
      - Here we go - Dabuilder, 2014-11-17, 10:10
        Here we go - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 10:16
- Where & Whom to Write - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-16, 17:41
  - Where & Whom to Write - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-16, 17:48
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  - Where & Whom to Write - Fran, 2014-11-16, 20:29
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      - Where & Whom to Write - CalBear, 2014-11-16, 22:00
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- the taxi protest is a big thing! - D-Loco, 2014-11-16, 20:15
- Taxi Terrorists - HolyMole, 2014-11-16, 22:46
  - Taxi Terrorists - LadyM in Zihua, 2014-11-17, 00:03
    - Taxi Terrorists - Sun Seeker, 2014-11-17, 00:16
      - Taxi Terrorists - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 07:30
    - Taxi Terrorists - Lee@98223, 2014-11-17, 08:12
      - Taxi Terrorists - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 08:14
  - Taxi Terrorists - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-17, 08:33
    - Taxi Terrorists - HolyMole, 2014-11-17, 10:37
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        Taxi Terrorists - LadyM in Zihua, 2014-11-17, 20:22
      - Taxi Terrorists - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-17, 12:58
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  - Taxi Terrorists-getting a little carried away - Semma4, 2014-11-17, 10:29
    - Taxi Terrorists-getting a little carried away - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 10:36
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      - Taxi Terrorists-getting a little carried away - jr, 2014-11-17, 12:50
        Taxi Terrorists-getting a little carried away - Talley Ho, 2014-11-17, 12:53
        
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-17, 13:09
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - Atlanta Dave, 2014-11-17, 13:20
        
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - jr, 2014-11-17, 13:20
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 13:55
        
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-17, 14:10
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 14:18
        
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - HolyMole, 2014-11-17, 15:49
        
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - katherine, 2014-11-17, 18:36
        Taxi Terrorists - not at all - K&B, 2014-11-17, 19:39
        NO- do not cancel your vacation in Zihua next week! - Linda from Canada, 2014-11-17, 19:53
        NO- do not cancel your vacation in Zihua next week! - ZihuaRob, 2014-11-17, 20:52
        
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