Discussion for article #230594
Truly sad for the people who live there who depend on tourist dollars. Indeed Baja has been considered a sort of a safe spot in Mexico.
In therms of drug lord’s interest, Baja seems an odd area to fight over, except perhaps local retail sales of drugs. As a drug route to the U.S. It seems an odd option given the need to get products onto the peninsula, then the thousand miles of sometimes poor roads, and then there’s TJ to contend with.
Looks like Puerto Vallarta is a better choice vacation for the time being.
Very disappointing that BCS is now subject to the same dangers as other states. It seemed a safe haven and out of the way of presumed drug routes.
simple request from a cabo local: please do your homework before assuming all of this is fact. there are many “implied truths” in this story that are simply false, and to group la paz with the “bucolic” tourist destination of los cabos is the biggest one of all. the piece is a generalization about an entire state based on what’s happened in one city. as a CABO local, we have almost no crime of any importance at all here. yes, el chapo was hiding out here in the posh beach side neighborhood right next to mine at one point some years ago, as a matter of fact, but he was captured in mazatlan on the mainland, NOT in Baja Sur. los cabos remains, even after being partially set back by hurricane odile in september, a safe and glorious place to visit and live. i wish the press would send reporters down here to study the place and get it right for once, or to at least talk to people who live here, before smearing the place as a whole because of what’s happening over an hour north. here in los cabos, we walk around city streets at night without a second thought. i am retired, so no, i am not a timeshare salesman or tourism development person… just a guy who’s lived here for 8 years, and never felt safer anywhere else i’ve lived in the world.
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