On Monday, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador actually said out loud during a press conference that Mexico is safer than the United States.
Don’t spit out your drink.
This response was in reference to the brutal cartel killings of two Americans and additional kidnapping of two others. President López Obrador continued by claiming that U.S. travel warnings and reports of violence in Mexico are exaggerated, and to take things a step further, actually a conspiracy by conservative politicians and the media just so they can make him look bad.
Ironically, while he was attempting to paint a picture that everything is awesome, the FBI just confirmed that three American women from Texas who were visiting Mexico have actually been missing since February.
Who needs bad news when you’re trying to run a country, right?
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“Mexico is safer than the United States,” he assured the press. “There is not problem in traveling safely in Mexico.”
He’s probably going to want to backtrack that statement a bit. According to the Global Conflict Tracker put together by the Center for Preventative Action which was updated in January of this year:
“By 2016, drug-related homicides had increased by 22 percent, with more than twenty thousand killed, and in 2017 a mass grave containing the remains of more than 250 victims of crime-related violence was uncovered in Veracruz State. Since 2006, crime-related violence has resulted in an estimated 150,000 deaths.”
AP News pointed out that “Mexico’s nationwide homicide rate is about 28 per 100,000 inhabitants. By comparison, the U.S. homicide rate is barely one-quarter as high, at around 7 per 100,000.”
As of this writing, the U.S. State Department has placed “do not travel” advisories on six Mexican states which have been the forefront of intense violence by the drug cartels.
Still, López Obrador doesn’t think a pesky thing like perhaps getting kidnapped or beheaded should get in the way of you and your vacation.
Yeah… if you never leave a resort. https://t.co/539oicvQXk
— Remso W. Martinez (@HeyRemso) March 13, 2023
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Everyone Else’s Fault
López Obrador doubled down, saying “This is a campaign against Mexico by these conservative politicians in the United States who do not want the transformation of our country to continue.”
“These conservative politicians… dominate the majority of the news media in the United States,” he added. “This violence is not a reality. It is pure, vile manipulation.”
Meanwhile in the real world, authorities in the state of Guanajuato have recently reported that ten individuals were shot to death, leaving many others injured during a shooting at a nightclub this past weekend. What is Guanajuato best known for? You guessed it, extreme cartel activity.
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Talk about our government lying! This Mex Pres is really living on a different planet.
In many ways he is right. If you stay away from the Ghettos and do not indulge in drugs or drug trafficking, then you are as safe(ish) as you are in most countries.
Which is equally true for the US and UK and EU.
You are much less likely to be accosted and robbed (by the police) than for instance in the US or UK, plus they are far more polite and helpful.
Virtually all the ‘gangs / cartels’ originated in the US gangs and prisons. (Eg MS13, ’18’s, Sinaloa etc) Without the huge US market for labour and drugs, the gangs would not exist.
But the US as always never admits fault or liability (hey, there are lawyers who will take the case on contingency right?), they always always blame someone else. “It is Mexico’s fault my kid is a drug addict!” so therefore I want to kill the Mexicans (and incidentally steal their land, labour and factories whilst demanding ‘reparations’.
When Obrador speaks lies like that, you would swear he and Biden are joined at the hip…..
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. The homicide rate in Mexico is 486% higher than the United States. There are 29.07 homicides per 100,000 in Mexico as opposed to 4.96 homicides per 100,000 in the United States.
Breaking it down even further
United States – Firearms death rate 4.12 per 100,000
Mexico – Firearms death rate 15.55 per 100,000
United States – Stabbing death rate 0.6 per 100,000
Mexico – Stabbing death rate 3.76 per 100,000
United States – Robbery rate 81.4 per 100,000
Mexico – Robbery rate 257.7 per 100,000
Mexico is a corrupt, dysfunctional and extremely unsafe nation and has been for a very long time!
and how much, President Lopez, does the cartel pay you ?
Of course the President of Mexico would say this and you know why it is because they’re sending all their criminals and illegals that are in their country to the United States of America (USA) and that is why he is making this LUDICROUS statement that Mexico is safer than the USA and anyone who has any common sense would know that is a untrue statement. ALSO they are doing everything they can to destroy America and the true Americans alongside with their Russia and the Chinese communist party cohorts period because these people/fanatics are all about power and controlling the world and hopefully the American people are finally waking up to these people and know that this is what they are up too. I just hope that we the people of the USA will be able to stop them and that we will be able to take back our America from these evil parasites that are bound and determined to take it from us and that’s why we cannot not let them do it period and end of story already.