IowaHawkeyeFB
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Any thoughts on visiting or staying in Tijuana?
When I was four we moved from Iowa to Arizona for 11 years. One of my friends that I've kept in touch with lives in El Paso now and married a Mexican woman; they go across into Juarez like 2 or 3 times a week for different things. No fucking way am I doing that. That's by far the worst cartel city and those dudes won't think twice about chopping your head off and leaving it on a park bench if they thought you were up to something.Stick to the tourist areas and don't walk around very far at night. Most of the violence you hear about are the cartels fighting each other which happen in the poor areas.
Any thoughts on visiting or staying in Tijuana?
I don't think white Iowans wearing Iowa gear will stand out in TJ. Just make sure someone from the group stays in the US to pay the ransom. The time for visiting TJ was in the 80s, it's not your father's TJ any longer. It's dangerous...and if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time...you will die.
Just google murders in TJ...and see the modus operandi of the cartel. And don't think, well if we go down during the day, we will be fine. It doesn't matter...the cartel henchmen have walked into a restaurant and murdered people in broad daylight...it doesn't matter.
2018 was a great year for the cartel.
"Tijuana has seen a methamphetamine-fuelled murder epidemic which produced a record 2,518 murders in 2018 and looks set to cause even more this year."
For reference...there were 561 murders in Chicago in 2018...and lot more guns in Chicago. In TJ, only the bad guys have the guns.