Guaymas Municipal Building today.A growing topic amoung expats in San Carlos has been the lack of tourists here and the treatment of the Mexican efforts against the drug smugglers on US television. We are all dismayed at the shallow reporting. Today we had a slight drizzle in the morning and we went into Guaymas because it would not be a good beach day, so this afternoon was a time to just do whatever.
I decided to email CNN and take them to task for their lack of depth regarding the situation in the border towns, so this is what I sent:
Many of us U.S. citizens, as well as those other North Americans, Canadians, currently located south of the border are dismayed at the treatment given by the televised media to the hostilities between the Mexican police and military and the drug smugglers they are trying to stop, especially at the border towns.
For years our government has called upon Mexico to step up its pressure on the drug smugglers and then when this actually happens and results in more violence, reporters spin the outcome with a sense of surprise, as if the one action would not lead to the other. We should be thanking Mexico’s Government and Military personnel for their action. And while I do not think it would be smart to have lunch in an open air restaurant with the Police Chief of a border town at this moment, I feel safer here in our Sonoran beach town getaway than many parts of some cities in the U.S. of A.
Discouraging U.S. citizens from visiting Mexico’s tourist areas is the wrong approach when most areas are very safe. We should want Mexico’s economy to do well because a stronger economy down here only helps the stability of the continent in the long run. The big media purveyors need to act more responsibly and turn on their collective brain before blasting the airways with partial and shallow reporting geared only toward selling more Viagra and prostrate medicines in the two minute blocks of time between sound bites.
Viva Mexico and Viva USA!
Lee Edmonson
Florence, Oregon &
San Carlos, Sonora
For years our government has called upon Mexico to step up its pressure on the drug smugglers and then when this actually happens and results in more violence, reporters spin the outcome with a sense of surprise, as if the one action would not lead to the other. We should be thanking Mexico’s Government and Military personnel for their action. And while I do not think it would be smart to have lunch in an open air restaurant with the Police Chief of a border town at this moment, I feel safer here in our Sonoran beach town getaway than many parts of some cities in the U.S. of A.
Discouraging U.S. citizens from visiting Mexico’s tourist areas is the wrong approach when most areas are very safe. We should want Mexico’s economy to do well because a stronger economy down here only helps the stability of the continent in the long run. The big media purveyors need to act more responsibly and turn on their collective brain before blasting the airways with partial and shallow reporting geared only toward selling more Viagra and prostrate medicines in the two minute blocks of time between sound bites.
Viva Mexico and Viva USA!
Lee Edmonson
Florence, Oregon &
San Carlos, Sonora
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