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Today, the Mexican Government introduced its new chocolate bar, priced at less than $1USD. Made of 50% cocoa, powdered milk, vanilla. No refined sugar, no artificial flavourings. (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was there a year ago. It was nice enough, not nearly as worrisome as I thought it would be. Yes, I stayed in the tourist areas, no I didn't wander into the rural areas, no I didn't try to start shit in clubs, yes I saw armed military on patrol. There were a lot of people trying to live their lives despite the serious crime in the region.

There are absolutely terrible things happening there and I would love for them to get better. I can say the same thing about the US. At least Mexico isn't waging war on my country, trade or otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Where did you go? Culiacan? Mazatlan? If you stuck exclusively to the tourist areas and made sure you were on red alert all the time, and tried to avoid wandering anywhere or having any sort of confrontation, then you would be fine for the most part... but that in itself isn't normal. By having that sort of discipline out of fear goes beyond the scope of normal tourist precautions.

Also, even though the US is dangerous in its own right, and has plenty of issues, it is not at all comparable to Mexico. The US homicide rate is a quarter of Mexico's and it has been declining sharply over the past few years. There's nothing like the cartels in the country, most of the crime is localized. There aren't organized crime syndicates running entire cities.