HarryinNM
May 23, 2012, 8:46 AM
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 Are You Safer In Mexico Or America?
By Robert Reid
Lonely Planet's US Travel Editor
As Lonely Planet's US Travel Editor, I frequently get asked if it's safe to go to Mexico. I have always said that, if you're thoughtful about where you go, the answer is yes. But, after my most recent trip there, I'm answering the question with another question: Do you think it's safe to go to Texas? 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.
What you don't get from most reports in the US is statistical evidence that Americans are less likely to face violence in Mexico than at home, ...
Full story: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lonely-planet/are-americans-safer-in-me_b_1503288.html?ref=email_share
[edited in the interests of netiquette to avoid any potential copyright issues]
(This post was edited by tonyburton on May 23, 2012, 10:52 AM)
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