Saying it again makes it true

[clarence456]

Well.........I agree with u.Thanks

[popotla]

I am indebted to you, Mr Popotla, for letting me know (from the sultanate of Oman?) just how dangerous my life is here in Tijuana. I had no idea just how mistaken my day-to-day experiences have been!

However, Mr. arturo, if you check back more carefully on this thread, you'll find that the "Now the threat of kidnap..............." comment, which you appear to ascribe to me, was in fact a comment by HolyMole, for which reason I had put it in italics and mentioned his/her name. If, as you claim, the thugs who used to work for the drug cartels are now working freelance, then HolyMole was right to have said that To ascribe all such serious crime in Mexico to "the drug trade" is, in my opinion, very wishful thinking.

As for telling you about how dangerous your life in Tijuana is, it must be a different Popotla who's telling you this ; I wasn't doing that:
(1) I didn't mention Tijuana, but focused on reported serious crime in Guanajuato state, asking whether life in that area, or such an area, was in fact proceeding as smoothly as the generally upbeat tone of certain posters to this forum would suggest. At some point I mentioned that even if the vast majority of the victims ere Mexican, that didn't make me feel any better about the matter. (2) The fact that I am not at present living in Mexico does not, I think, preclude me from asking about the situation there or offering my opinion/expressing my feelings about the country, where I lived for many years. Nor does it preclude me from asking about / commenting on events and circumstances in country x, y or z, a country other than the one in which I am living.

I hope you continue to feel safe in Tijuana, and that the kind of experience suffered by two foreign households further south, as reported on this thread since your on post, wtill not affect you.

In no sense is my questioning a troll: I suggest that the powerful finger of the censor, which shouldn't want to stifle open discussion, be withheld.