The Allure of Mexico
It is alluring as a tourist -attractive destination. Its ancient heritage, its music and culture and its exotic, coloufrul and balmy geography.
Its endemic poverty and crime-ridden violence involved in the drug trade are not dreadfully attractive, but tourist sites tend to present another kind of facade entirely, one that denies anything might be awry in Paradise. And it is the Paradise component that tourists seek out, not the encounters with danger, and death.
Canadians, living on the same Continent, albeit at opposite ends, are fascinated with Mexico. Mexico is fascinated with the prospect of ever-increasing revenues from Canadian tourism. But the country is weighted with a reputation for corruption and lax security.
Good thing for tourism that people contemplating a vacation in Mexico, at luxe resorts where turquoise waters and bright sun shining on sandy beaches offer private security and separation from potential problems. Tourists see a country quite different than the one that ordinary Mexicans live in.
Except that there is no escape from the potential for violent crime in that crime-beset country. And there are constant reports of Canadians suffering attacks that cause untold grief for families. People severely wounded, woman raped, and too many murders, despite official explanations that would not seem plausible to any but the most credulous.
And here is yet another Canadian murdered in Mexico.
These incessant attacks and deaths, and related incidents which rarely are solved adequately with the attackers facing justice in a country horribly beset by rampant drug-trade-fuelled mass murders are reported in Canadian news. But Canadians keep launching themselves on holidays to Mexican vacation sites; they seem irresistible to the sun-loving crowd.
Do Canadians have a death-wish? That if they are to depart this Earth and all they hold dear, then let it be on a beach in Acapulco, rather than an unfortunate accident on a highway in dear old boring Canada?
Its endemic poverty and crime-ridden violence involved in the drug trade are not dreadfully attractive, but tourist sites tend to present another kind of facade entirely, one that denies anything might be awry in Paradise. And it is the Paradise component that tourists seek out, not the encounters with danger, and death.
Canadians, living on the same Continent, albeit at opposite ends, are fascinated with Mexico. Mexico is fascinated with the prospect of ever-increasing revenues from Canadian tourism. But the country is weighted with a reputation for corruption and lax security.
Good thing for tourism that people contemplating a vacation in Mexico, at luxe resorts where turquoise waters and bright sun shining on sandy beaches offer private security and separation from potential problems. Tourists see a country quite different than the one that ordinary Mexicans live in.
Except that there is no escape from the potential for violent crime in that crime-beset country. And there are constant reports of Canadians suffering attacks that cause untold grief for families. People severely wounded, woman raped, and too many murders, despite official explanations that would not seem plausible to any but the most credulous.
And here is yet another Canadian murdered in Mexico.
These incessant attacks and deaths, and related incidents which rarely are solved adequately with the attackers facing justice in a country horribly beset by rampant drug-trade-fuelled mass murders are reported in Canadian news. But Canadians keep launching themselves on holidays to Mexican vacation sites; they seem irresistible to the sun-loving crowd.
Do Canadians have a death-wish? That if they are to depart this Earth and all they hold dear, then let it be on a beach in Acapulco, rather than an unfortunate accident on a highway in dear old boring Canada?
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