Mexican Drug Wars Keep Spring Breakers From Heading South of the Border

[Sandy2k]

Sorry faux news has this via google news

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337721,00.html">Mexican Drug Wars Keep Spring Breakers From Heading South of the Border

For college students, March Madness usually means basketball and Spring Break. But on South Padre Island in Texas, March Madness is taking on a whole new meaning.

Students there say the real madness would be to take the traditional 30-minute trip to the Mexican border for the popular "Two-Nation Vacation."

News of gun battles between Mexican soldiers and drug cartels in border cities are keeping tourists away and prompting many parents to dole out a stern warning: "Don't go to Mexico."

Bryanna Lindblom is visiting for a few days from University of Central Missouri, and she says she wouldn't think of going to Mexico. "I think my mom would freak out," she says. "She'd probably have a little bit of a cow."

It's easy to see why parents are concerned.

In Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, machine-gun-toting Mexican soldiers have been deployed to the border in armored personnel carriers to quell drug cartel violence. The situation is the same in other Mexican border towns. But the sight of armed men patrolling the streets makes many visitors nervous.

As a result, local businesses that depend on tourist traffic to Mexico say they are really hurting this year.

This is an excerpt of the Article

[uppityperson]

1. Reading headlines too fast, thought they were keeping Spiders out.

[rawtribe]

2. All the cool kids

goto Cancun.

It was on MTV, must be true.


:silly:

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. My god it broke OUT of mexico!!!!!!!!!

By the way, that is a direct result of the war on drugs, and narco terrorism will soon reach inside our borders... yes kiddies, it is coming

[AnnieBW]

4. Maybe the Mexicans will build a fence

to keep the drunken Spring Breakers from terrorizing their country?

[AlCzervik]

5. Rofl!!!! omg Annie for the win!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Trust me, as a medic who worked a border town

the thought crossed my mind more than once

:-)

Trust me, nothing more terrible than seeing a couple of these kids doing it in the middle of the day in somebody's front lawn.

No, I am not a prude, but damn it, get a room!

[provis99]

7. what, the Spring Breakers want the drugs, but not the drug killings?

The Ugly Americans at their worst.