A safe trip in Mexico, what is the truth?

This week is midsummer. Fresh sea breezes wiped out the morning fog and the sky is blue on the Pacific Ocean. Rosarito Beach is quiet today, personally thankful, but I am praying for the resurgence of the rapidly growing tourism business. I got off the car because I found a convenient parking lot in front of the fish store. Walking inside, I will be greeted by friendly "Hola!". There is a light fragrance of salt and sea creatures, and I swear they are still shaking that the fish are very fresh. Take a bag of shrimp and go out, the man calls for returning a promont. Nikko is bright and I am surprised that there is not summer youth in bare skin in the street. They once filled the street. They did not return at all.

However, we have thousands who have never left. Our foreign residents transplanted to the northern Baja for various reasons. Even through all the many changes that have been taking place since September 11, we have not left. Of course, it is long ago that Mexican people have paid very high price for all of the fluctuations of the US economy. Terrorist attacks, border closures, real estate booms, crashes, and the latest are travel warnings that show how dangerous it is to blatant media attacks and travel here. I will not minimize the fact that there is violence in the world. Violence against each other is still a furious holy war. Instead, I propose that peaceful life in North Baha is a truth worthy of coverage. For most of us living here, we do not choose to live elsewhere.

Past Mayor Hugo Torres has launched a campaign to wipe out the city of Rosarito. Then he took the media in the United States. What has been happening in tourism in the northern part of Baja was all-out efforts to kill "media killing" and tourism trade he said. Residents can fully support his view. When reporting on Baja, we are witnessing the lack of constant media journalism. Giving a negative image to travelers is blunt and unrelenting intention. We are all shaking our heads looking at each other. The truth is that we are sending every peace the most peaceful life anywhere, and this includes the United States.

"Are you afraid to go to Mexico?" It is becoming a cumbersome question. Beyond the border with El Paso, Texas, violence is occurring in Ciwadar Juarez, Chihuahua State, Mexico, so it is meaningless to issue a warning about traveling to get away from Baja. As there was a Mafia shootout on the street of Chicago, Mexico seems to tell people in Baja not to travel to California. Certainly, it does not require reasoning.

Robert Reed, US travel editor of Lonely Planet, reports as follows.

"What we can not get from most US reports is statistical evidence that Americans are less likely to face violence in Mexico than at home."

Tijuana quit many of the most violent cities in the world list. Business travelers, medical tourists, and day - tripers are on the rise. In fact, Lead says it is more dangerous to visit Disney World of Orlando than Cancun or Puerto Vallarta.

The Texas State Public Security Bureau advised on "traveling to Spring vacation anywhere in Mexico". Instead, it is said that the homicide rate is much higher in the Bahamas, Belize, Jamaica and other places. "Mexico is totally more dangerous but it is not dangerous for Americans" This means that the FBI's criminal statistics show that the proportion of crimes against Americans is less than half that of the whole country of the United States. The Texans are twice as safe in Mexico and three times as safe than Houston.

In addition, Lead reported that New Orleans broke its own tourist record last year. It has ten times the homicide rate of the United States, close to the nationwide rate three times that of Mexico. Even violence in Juarez fell by 45%. Most of the 31 states in Mexico are not listed in the State Department's travel warning. This warning is not suitable for traveling to select some of the other states. Thirteen states, including Baja Sur, are completely released from warnings. Reid gave up his thumb for a trip to Mexico and Lonely Planet "This issue was taken up simply because - as the traveler knows well - there is another story that goes beyond the perception of going home" Stated. He continues to emphasize, "And, as importantly, Mexico will serve some of the world's largest travel experiences as well."

Martina Dobesh is a 12-year resident of the northern part of Baja. She focuses on creating an image that Baja is a violent place to live and travel, one of the voices declaring inequity in the lack of good American journalism It is only. The American journalist who is writing about Baja has not visited there to witness directly what actually happens. Thousands of foreign residents live in the south of the border, experiencing a peaceful lifestyle. In order to report it, Martina announced her to the online newspaper. She will visit you and encourage you to check the truth about living in Baja California yourself.