Why is local law enforcement here so ineffective? Last Friday, a close friend I'll call Tom, 81, was carjacked and kidnapped as he returned to his ranch early in the afternoon, at a spot just outside Jalpa, a midsize town near us. In addition to his late model Toyota Tacoma pickup—which had a couple of …
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One stiff, a mummy and a funeral
Early Tuesday morning, in front of a small abandoned building on the road to the town of Jalpa, a kilometer in from the junction with the highway between San Miguel and Querétaro, and four kilometers from our ranch, two bodies were found, one hogtied and neatly bundled in a blanket, mummy-like, and the other more …
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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