I've never been to Mexico, have seen enough films and documentaries to know that it is a beautiful country that I'd like to visit, but the risk-reward ratio is too high for me.

I watched a lady from Netherlands on Youtube ( Itchy Boots ) travel thru from South America to Alaska. In parts of Mexico, she had to have helpful locals clear it with the local drug cartel leaders for her to travel basically the only road that she could use on her journey North. The vast, vast majority of locals she interacted with were good people, but areas are controlled by the drug cartels, and they settle disagreements with a bullet.

Truly sad part, and I say this as an American, is that Americans are a major part of the root cause of these problems in Mexico. Americans are the biggest illegal drug market for the cartel.
If we were not sending an avalanche of cash to the cartel via recreational ( and addictive ) drug purchases, then the cartels would lose power, as cash is how the cartels buy the control of the Mexican politicians, Military, and law enforcement.

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