Another Canadian tourist killed in Mexico: police

OK, thats it for me, I'm going to go to Greece for my vacation this year. Way to many Canuks getting offed in Mexico

I was in Mexico this winter.. its not a safe place no matter what they try and tell you..
it sould be avoided..

I have been to Mexico many, many times and have a place in Teloloapan, Gro.

It is safe, you just have to respect the laws and understand the culture.

If you are so afraid of being killed on vacation, then stay home. People die every day while on vacation, tragic but that's life.

This is not restricted to Canadians... Some friends we met on vacation this year in the Dominican were Polish living in England. Two years ago, one of the couples went to Mexico to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. At 8PM the first evening, the husband went to get cigarettes and never came back. The police came to the room at 8AM the next morning as grounds keepers had found him laying on the property, with broken ribs, a ruptured spleen, a concussion and both arms broken in two places each. He remembers nothing about it, except that he never made it to a place where cars were passing suggesting he was NOT hit by a car.

He received very good medical treatment in Mexico, but underwent several months of physical therapy when he returned home. No arrests or even leads were ever found.

The fact is, when on vacation in a location whos standard of living does not permit a large part of the population to ever in their life times have a reciprocal type of vacation, one should be very careful about finding themselves alone in dark places. This is NOT restricted to Mexico, the Dominican, Aruba and/or Jamaica. The same issues exist if you take the wrong roads in NYC, Chicago, Detroit etc...

Rules of being safe exist everywhere. People let their guard down on vacation, and lets face it, there is no valid reason to think that you are safer in Mexico than you are in Chicago. Watch your back ANYWHERE...