Playing it safe

It came to my attention that one of my friend's lodgings at La Ropa Beach suffered an armed holdup a few days ago while the lodgings guests were present. Since we have nothing resembling a police force in our city I suppose armed robberies are to be expected, but that's the thing. Even though this entire region of the state of Guerrero has no police force anyone would ever think to count on for public security, hold-ups like this are amazingly rare. Maybe 2 or 3 a year for our region, if even that. Heck, even when I lived in Florida 26 years ago almost everywhere had more crime against tourists than this entire region. So, as terrible as I feel about the incident and especially for the people who had their things stolen and their personal safety violated, I am not going to warn anyone to do anything different than they otherwise would to be safe in our region. Now that an incident has occurred at La Ropa, that part of town will actually get increased police surveillance. I suspect the perps were just passing through, as seems to happen here from time to time. Probably got run out of Acapulco and are heading to points north and needed a little cash for the road for the "long weekend". Who knows? But I wouldn't hesitate to have my family stay at any lodging at La Ropa. And I hope no one will cancel their reservations or decide not to come to Zihuatanejo just because we are not a 100% crime-free zone.

¡¡Viva Zihuatanejo!!