Hound Dog
Oct 20, 2010, 12:33 PM
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Re: [geri] Missing Marin County native found slain in Oaxaca
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It warrants note to me because this is the first expat murder in the 13 years I have lived in Oaxaca City.
Really, geri? Perhaps you should read the local Oaxaca papers with more care. Without even doing any research at all I can remember the case of Brad Will, the New York leftist journalist, who was murdered in Oaxaca in October, 2006 by parties as yet finally identified and Iīll bet I can come up with many more incidents with only a modicum of effort. Tell me something else, geri, how many expats live and own homes in San Andres Huayapam and/or San Bartolo Coyotepec and invite strangers into their homes where they are subseqently chopped to death with a machete and then had their car stolen by an assailant later found seriously bruised and bitten evidencing, according to local cops, a violent struggle. While you are at it geri, why donīt you tell me why the death of a foreigner by murder is more important than the countless deaths of locals in a violent state noted for its murder and domestic violence rate.
I live in Chiapas and can tell you the murder rate among the indigenous, whether within the family or among neighbors or inhabitants of neighboring villages, defies belief but these incidents are hardly ever reported in the local media and almost never appear in the national press. Itīs time to stop fretting over the occasional murders of foreigners interspersed among the locals in Southern Mexico, some of whom perhaps stuck their noses where unwelcome, and stop acting as if foreigners somehow warrant special privileges.
In San Cristóbal de Las Casas and often unwelcoming environs, I respect my fellow Chiapanecos and try to act in accordance with local customs. If, somehow, I inadvertently cross the line in my interrelationships there and am harmed or even murdered, I donīt expect to make the U.S. news where reporters have no idea what they are talking about. I have chosen to live where I live and I take my chances without expecting to be treated as if I were above ordinary citizens.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Oct 20, 2010, 12:35 PM)
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