During the first five months of the year, murders in San Miguel have risen to between 29 and 50, depending who's counting, compared to 28 during all of last year, putting 2019 on track to be the bloodiest year ever. Indeed, fuzzy statistics are but one problem in any discussion about crime in San Miguel, where …
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The elephant in the room stirs again
Security in Mexico worries expats but we don't even want to talk about it. On March 13 a woman friend was kidnapped in broad daylight in downtown San Miguel. She's still missing. The event was confirmed by the U.S. Consular Agent here, who passed on the news to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. But for several days …
Mayhem and death on our neighborhood's killer road
At approximately eight o'clock on Sunday, as we turned onto the half-mile-long dirt road that goes from a paved but cratered two-lane highway to the gate of our ranch, we froze momentarily at the sight, barely visible in the distance under the moonlight, of twenty or more people and two pickup trucks, one brown the …
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