Saturday, August 16, 2014
POLICE ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED RAPE
A
member of the Auxiliary Police was arrested for allegedly molesting a
girl who came from a dance in the Colonia Centro, in Milpa Alta. --Source
Guanajuato, third in homicide: Miguel Alonso Raya Aug 09, 2014 Principal , Public Life
"...it
was found that in recent months, Guanajuato came from fifth to third
place in the state where most crimes are committed, under the State of
Mexico and Chihuahua." Source: Periodico: EL Correo
Thursday, April 3, 2014
The Untold Price Families in Mexico Have Been Forced to Pay Kidnappers
Friday, March 28, 2014
American Woman Allegedly Murdered in Guanajuato
An American-born woman was found dead inside her house in the neighborhood Mellado, according to the first investigations of the General Procuduría of Justice, had a blow to the head...Read More here.
Labels: crime, Guanajuato, Latin America, Mexican, murder, mystery, San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, SMA
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Two Teens Murder Elderly Person
SALAMANCA, Guanajuato -. An elderly 89-year-old was beaten to death after two teenagers broke into his house to steal a tank of gas, in the La Cruz.
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Labels: crime, Guanajuato, murder, mystery
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Mexican University Professor Calls For Murder Of All Whites
Mexican University Professor Calls For Murder Of All
Whites
"We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him."
Labels: crime, Expatriate attacked, Guanajuato, Latin America, Mexican, Mexico, murder, San Miguel, SMA
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Shooting erupts in Tamazuca
Saul Castro / February 7, 2014
Six masked gunmen attacked a passenger bus Yellow Arrow came out of Dolores Hidalgo bound for this city, however, elements of the general direction of Public Safety of the capital after a shootout, succeeded in capturing the suspects, one of them seriously injured and was taken to the General Hospital in the city of León....Read Entire Article
(In the days when we used to travel the wife and I used to go this bus route where this happened...NEVER MORE!)
Six masked gunmen attacked a passenger bus Yellow Arrow came out of Dolores Hidalgo bound for this city, however, elements of the general direction of Public Safety of the capital after a shootout, succeeded in capturing the suspects, one of them seriously injured and was taken to the General Hospital in the city of León....Read Entire Article
(In the days when we used to travel the wife and I used to go this bus route where this happened...NEVER MORE!)
Labels: crime, Guanajuato, Mexican, Mexico, San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, SMA
Mexican Hoilday Horror
Originally Poster from MEXICO VACATION AWARENESS
***
Part One of The Current
Satire
It's Wednesday, January 25th.
The first anniversary of the Egyptian uprising. And to commemorate the day, the military is suspending the country's repressive state of emergency law .... except in cases of thuggery.
Currently, the term thuggery in Egypt is as flexible as terrorism in the U.S.
This is The Current.
Mexican Holiday Horror - Maureen Webster
We began this part with the sound of Robert Prosser describing the vicious attack on his niece, 37-year-old Sheila Nabb of Calgary. Nabb and her husband were on vacation at a five-star hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico when she was found unconscious on Saturday. She is now out of a medically-induced coma, and her family says she's responsive, but her jaw remains wired shut. Mexican surgeons could begin reconstructive surgery on her face today, but she isn't expected to be well enough to travel home for several weeks.
What exactly happened to Nabb is under investigation. But her story is just the latest tragedy involving Canadians vacationing in Mexico this month. Salid Abdulacis Sabas was found in a street, shot dead. University of British Columbia student Ximena Osegueda was tortured and fatally stabbed. And B.C. native Robin Wood was killed during a home invasion.
According to the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 112 Canadians have died in Mexico in accidents, murders or suicides over the past five years. And then there are those who, like Nabb, were attacked - but lived. According to government records, 50 Canadians last year were victims of assault in Mexico.
Foreign Affairs urges Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel to the border area between the U.S. and Mexico due to organized crime violence. A lower level of warning has been issued for the rest of the country.
Still, we flock to Mexico. After the U.S., it's the second most popular destination for Canadians, with 1.6 million of us travelling there in 2010. The vast majority of vacationers return home, rested and unharmed. But my next guest says cases like Sheila Nabb's are proof that taking a vacation in Mexico is more dangerous than most people realize.
Maureen Webster's son Nolan drowned to death at a Cancun resort in 2007. She now runs the website Mexico Vacation Awareness, and we reached her ust outside Boston.
Mexican Holiday Horror - Ioan Grillo
Despite the troubling headlines, not everyone thinks Mexico is unsafe for visitors.
Ioan Grillo is a journalist based in Mexico City and he knows about violence. He's covered the drug trade for the past decade, and wrote the book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency. He joined us from Mexico City.
We did request interviews with the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, as well as the Mexican Tourism Board, but those requests went unanswered.
Related Links:
***
Part One of The Current
Satire
It's Wednesday, January 25th.
The first anniversary of the Egyptian uprising. And to commemorate the day, the military is suspending the country's repressive state of emergency law .... except in cases of thuggery.
Currently, the term thuggery in Egypt is as flexible as terrorism in the U.S.
This is The Current.
Mexican Holiday Horror - Maureen Webster
We began this part with the sound of Robert Prosser describing the vicious attack on his niece, 37-year-old Sheila Nabb of Calgary. Nabb and her husband were on vacation at a five-star hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico when she was found unconscious on Saturday. She is now out of a medically-induced coma, and her family says she's responsive, but her jaw remains wired shut. Mexican surgeons could begin reconstructive surgery on her face today, but she isn't expected to be well enough to travel home for several weeks.
What exactly happened to Nabb is under investigation. But her story is just the latest tragedy involving Canadians vacationing in Mexico this month. Salid Abdulacis Sabas was found in a street, shot dead. University of British Columbia student Ximena Osegueda was tortured and fatally stabbed. And B.C. native Robin Wood was killed during a home invasion.
According to the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 112 Canadians have died in Mexico in accidents, murders or suicides over the past five years. And then there are those who, like Nabb, were attacked - but lived. According to government records, 50 Canadians last year were victims of assault in Mexico.
Foreign Affairs urges Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel to the border area between the U.S. and Mexico due to organized crime violence. A lower level of warning has been issued for the rest of the country.
Still, we flock to Mexico. After the U.S., it's the second most popular destination for Canadians, with 1.6 million of us travelling there in 2010. The vast majority of vacationers return home, rested and unharmed. But my next guest says cases like Sheila Nabb's are proof that taking a vacation in Mexico is more dangerous than most people realize.
Maureen Webster's son Nolan drowned to death at a Cancun resort in 2007. She now runs the website Mexico Vacation Awareness, and we reached her ust outside Boston.
Mexican Holiday Horror - Ioan Grillo
Despite the troubling headlines, not everyone thinks Mexico is unsafe for visitors.
Ioan Grillo is a journalist based in Mexico City and he knows about violence. He's covered the drug trade for the past decade, and wrote the book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency. He joined us from Mexico City.
We did request interviews with the federal Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, as well as the Mexican Tourism Board, but those requests went unanswered.
Related Links:
- Mexico resort beating victim emerges from coma - CBC News
- American warns of Mexico resort dangers - CBC News
Labels: crime, Expatriate Arrested, Expatriate attacked, Expatriate Robbed, Guanajuato, Latin America, Mexican, Mexico, murder, mystery, San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, SMA
Friday, February 7, 2014
Are Americans safer in Mexico than at home? Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/blog/2012/04/30/are-americans-safer-in-mexico-than-at-home/#ixzz2rS0ir8Qa
To be clear, violence in Mexico is no joke. There have been over 47,000
drug-related murders alone in the past five years. Its murder rate – 18
per 100,000 according to this United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime report
– is more than three times the US rate of 4.8 per 100,000. Though
Mexican tourism is starting to bounce back, Americans appear more
reluctant to return than Canadians and Brits (5.7 million Americans
visited in 2011, down 3% from 2010 – and, according to Expedia, more
than four of five bookings were adults going without children). Many who
don’t go cite violence as the reason.
Labels: crime, Expatriate Arrested, Expatriate attacked, Expatriate Robbed, Guanajuato, Latin America, Mexican, Mexico, murder, mystery, San Miguel, San Miguel de Allende, SMA
Thursday, February 6, 2014
jpelker
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I was walking home to Pastita around 2:00am last night. As I made a left onto Calle Pastita from Calle Puertecito, I was rushed by two twenty-something year-olds. One grabbed my neck collar and the other slammed an empty 40oz. beer bottle against my head.
Luckily, I able to absorb the blow of the beer bottle, keep my balance and shrug off the first attacker. I then began yelling and as I stepped back toward Calle Puertecito, my attackers retreated.
Here's where the assault happened: http://note.io/194Pz0z
I then made my way back towards Sange de Cristo where I has last seen two police officers were detaining a drunk.
They examined my head (some blood but just minor scratches) but they were more concerned with the stupid drunk than helping me get home safely. The drunk was taken away in a truck and the remaining officer disappeared twice after promising that he would help.
I waited almost an hour but then spotted a friend walking home to Pastita and I escorted her past my house and doubled back--only to see another group of drinkers (which had doubled in size on my way back) at the entrance of an adjacent callejon.
The group ended up not bothering me, and I finally made my way back home at 3:30am.
Conclusion:
Even the main streets in Pastita aren't safe. The police are absolutely worthless here. Don't walk around past midnight on Saturday nights without a sizable group.
GTOLIST.COM
Labels: crime, Expatriate attacked, Expatriate Robbed, Guanajuato, Latin America
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