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Well stated, Larry.
I have had the opportunity to do a lot of business in Mexico in the past interacting with many of the most highly placed officials in the government, industry and education. On one occasion we hosted a dinner party in our back yard over looking the Columbia river. That party included the current or former ministers of nearly all their cabinet level positions, the President of UNAM (the largest university in the Americas and perhaps the world at 250,000 students), the head of the national lab part of PEMEX (the state owned national oil company), and the presidents of several of the largest industrial firms. Seemingly fine, well meaning gentlemen all.
One major impediment standing in the way of modernizing their country, and openly derided by all these gentlemen, was the monopoly on oil given to Pemex by a socialist government decades ago. Pemex itself became a bureaucratic nightmare of political patronage. The money that was supposed to go to "the people" to modernize Mexico never got there, nor was it reinvested in infrastructure as it was by law supposed to. As a result, one of the largest oil producers on earth stagnated in the 50s, the fields became non-productive, pollution in the Tobasco region, especially along the Veracruz coast line, became significant.
Just in the last two weeks the Federal government changed the law removing the oil monopoly from Pemex and allowing foreign investment in oil exploration, extraction, refinement and distribution. That may well mark the fundamental change that might finally allow Mexico to invest in bringing itself up by its own boot straps to join the modern nations of the world. I hope so. We spent many wonderful winters in central Mexico during our full timing days in the rolling condo. Never felt the slightest discomfort and never saw any evidence of corruption or danger to tourists. One would never go outside the Zona Rosa in Mexico City after dark any more that one would go most places in Chicago day or night these days, but that is true of most all big cities around the world. We heard lots of stories about the banditos coming out of the hills a robbing tourists, but none of them ever checked out as being anything but stories.
The rise of the drug cartels changed everything for the worst in the border towns and for the senior people in government, education and industry as they became targets. Rival gangs shoot it out to control transportation points. The fact that the Federal government is now stepping in willing to take on anyone I see as a good sign. Would I like to be in the cross fire? No. But from our experience that is very unlikely. A tourist has nothing of value remotely in the same magnitude as a drug dealer or transport hub so the really bad guys don't want the exposure of hassling anyone but the wealthiest. Small time crooks there are just like they are here so the risks are about the same.
A couple of our sons regularly surf the west coast of Mexico along with a whole bunch of surfers from around the world. While there is a lot of drug trafficing in the states of Michoacan, Colima, Jalisco, Nayarit and Sinaloa, (it is new in the state of Sonora with many of the other access points now sealed off), they have never seen any evidence of bad guys or dealers going after the surfers.
My take anyway.
Jerry
Jerry Work
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Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 09:41:17 -0800
From: Larry Davick <ljdavick@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] LED headlights
To: GMC Motorhome List <gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org>
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That shoot-out in Mexico is nothing more than an evening on International Boulevard in Oakland, or any Sunday the Raiders are playing at the Coliseum.
I shouldn?t joke. The gun-battle video looked horrific. Those combatants were using really big guns and bullets that could easily have hurt innocents. It amazes me how many rounds are fired compared to how few targets are actually hit.
I?d wager the aluminum of our coaches would not stand a chance against anything of that caliber.
With all the natural resources, fertile soil, proximity to the US market, and intelligence abundant in Mexico why hasn?t it joined the first tier of nations? Why still is it a 3rd world country? There are so many beautiful spots to visit, historic locations to tour, and cuisine to eat, that this violence is repulsing tourism and investment.
Larry Davick
A Mystery Machine
1976(ish) Palm Beach
Fremont, CA
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