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[Jim is Jim]

OT: over 700 killed last month alone in Mexico's drug wars... more than were killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and India combined for the month... more than the 400 killed in Nigeria last month

Here in San Diego, every weekend the headlines carry the body count in Baja -- reminded me of Vietnam's nightly body count on the news.

And, as someone else posted, even Mexican citizens do not go there if they don't have to -- we have 3 eng/techs who commute from TJ, but they are renting a place for "awhile" on this side of the border for now.

But, 90% of the violence is withing 60 miles of the US border... the tourist places further south (like Cabo, for example) are not seeing the same violence -- need those tourist dollars... and closer to the border, Rosarito Beach now has 200 extra federal troops to patrol the beach area as the usually popular tourist spot just 30-40 miles south of San Diego had become a ghost town of late.

Jim