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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It's 11 a.m. Do you know where your car went?
Crime in Mexico is a topic expats would rather not talk about, particularly when visiting the U.S."Aren't you afraid to live in Mexico?" we're asked frequently, and annoyingly. Perhaps it's a matter of pride, of not wanting to admit that yes, we're often afraid, or worse, that we sometimes wonder if moving down here was …
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Who should be afraid now?
When Stew and I visit the United States we can count on one tedious question to come up: "Aren't you afraid to live in Mexico?" Over lunch, when we visited Chicago in October, a friend asked us that and it struck me as odd, considering I'd just read in the local newspaper there had been …
Annie get your gun? Or probably not.
I used to believe, naively, that a "home invasion" was a melodramatic synonym for "burglary" until two weeks ago, when at about ten-thirty at night four punks in their twenties broke into the small ranch of a retired American couple in their late sixties who live a few miles deeper into the countryside than us. …
El Rancho Santa Clara 