It seems that I have been getting more and more reports from friends of bus attacks at night.. Has anyone been finding out more reports of assaults on the roads lately?
Before I drove back from Chiapas in May a truck driver the Chiapas artisans use a lot told me to watch out for the roads around Puebla.. between Puebla and Mexico and between Mexico and Queretaro, he told me a lot of trucks were being attacked at night and that his cousin had lost his car between Puebla and Mexico. Apparently the thieves on that sections have police cars and police uniforms so he believes that some rogue cops are part of the scheme and he told me not to stop if the municipal cops from Puebla tried to stop me.... That is all very nice but I rather lose the car than be shot...
Then in June a friend of mine who is a jeweler and was travelling during the day between Queretaro and Guadalajara told me her bus was shot at and the bullet barely missed her head.. I first thought it took place in Michoacan but no it was on the Queretaro Guadalajara freeway.
The today I just got a call from a CHiapaneca friend of mine who told me that she was going back from Mexico to San Cristobal last week when her bus was shot at.. no one was hurt but she told me the bus ws full of bullets. It was 10 oclock at night at Malpaso , Vera Cruz near Las Choapas, the thieves faked an accident and tried to stop the bus but the driver kept going , there were two other buses following and the same thing happened to them...
There have always been assaults of buses at night but I am hearing more and more about it from various friends.. I do not know if I know nore people who travel by bus and if the situation is getting worst but it is quite alarming.
For 7 years I have gone back and forth to Chiapas several times a year and before that to Oaxaca and did not hear much about attacks.. For the last 3 years I found it cheaper to fly there and we also drive but ony during the day and we never had problems although I have heards about problems between Choapas , VC and Tuxtla... but it seems to be getting worse.
Anyone has the same feeling? Of course those incidents are not reported so it is difficult to have decent information, but it is getting worrysome to know that these thieves are shooting at vehicules that do not stop and that some of them actually have cops cars and uniforms..
Before I drove back from Chiapas in May a truck driver the Chiapas artisans use a lot told me to watch out for the roads around Puebla.. between Puebla and Mexico and between Mexico and Queretaro, he told me a lot of trucks were being attacked at night and that his cousin had lost his car between Puebla and Mexico. Apparently the thieves on that sections have police cars and police uniforms so he believes that some rogue cops are part of the scheme and he told me not to stop if the municipal cops from Puebla tried to stop me.... That is all very nice but I rather lose the car than be shot...
Then in June a friend of mine who is a jeweler and was travelling during the day between Queretaro and Guadalajara told me her bus was shot at and the bullet barely missed her head.. I first thought it took place in Michoacan but no it was on the Queretaro Guadalajara freeway.
The today I just got a call from a CHiapaneca friend of mine who told me that she was going back from Mexico to San Cristobal last week when her bus was shot at.. no one was hurt but she told me the bus ws full of bullets. It was 10 oclock at night at Malpaso , Vera Cruz near Las Choapas, the thieves faked an accident and tried to stop the bus but the driver kept going , there were two other buses following and the same thing happened to them...
There have always been assaults of buses at night but I am hearing more and more about it from various friends.. I do not know if I know nore people who travel by bus and if the situation is getting worst but it is quite alarming.
For 7 years I have gone back and forth to Chiapas several times a year and before that to Oaxaca and did not hear much about attacks.. For the last 3 years I found it cheaper to fly there and we also drive but ony during the day and we never had problems although I have heards about problems between Choapas , VC and Tuxtla... but it seems to be getting worse.
Anyone has the same feeling? Of course those incidents are not reported so it is difficult to have decent information, but it is getting worrysome to know that these thieves are shooting at vehicules that do not stop and that some of them actually have cops cars and uniforms..