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Latin America

Easterncedar

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3. Terrible news. Cartels are everywhere

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2024, 04:39 PM

Mar 2024

I asked a friend who stays at some resort every winter about how safe she feels in Mexico, and she said the resort is completely controlled by organized crime so all the Americans are protected. Geese and golden eggs and all that.

I hate that. But then my hometown of Niagara Falls has always had a solid mafia presence.

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2 detectives were searching for students who went missing a decade ago in Mexico. Now they have disappeared themselves. [View all] Judi Lynn Mar 2024 OP

This is awful. n/t MontanaMama Mar 2024 #1

The New Yorker just recently published a long article about the investigation Voltaire2 Mar 2024 #2

Terrible news. Cartels are everywhere Easterncedar Mar 2024 #3