Yes...it appears they are already dimming.

Don't worry, the lights will have gone off long before that.

Truer words never been said....Hope the last one to leave America doesn't forget to turn off
the lights...

one major drug lord owns a a very large stake in a major resort there. It is many miles outside of town the other direction though. and his offspring each own large condominium complexes next door. I may be naive, but the cartel had not been a huge presence there. but the downturn in the US economy has hit that town hard. hundreds maybe over a thousand condos were foreclosed. the economy suffers hugely. It's a time for the bad element to infiltrate. It's a beautiful place and for Arizonans in the desert- ocean in under 3 hours driving! Luckily, there is a ton of cooperation between US authorities and Sonoran authorities since it's in the "americanized" zone. For a year I traveled that main corridor all the time and felt safe as houses. Our car was robbed one time at a fair. it's kind of a funny story. I'll post it sometime.

I spent more than a few days in Puerto Penasco back in the 90's. The hotels were nice, beer was cheap (I still drank back then) and the beach was good for eye candy ( I was single then). Met lots of Americans who had property in the area or who were thinking about it. Back then, you just had to watch for the bandidos on the highway between the Point and the Arizona border. I never had a problem but there were some reports. It seems as if the cartel bosses like the beaches also and were trying to partake of the local scene. It seems as if the drug thing is everywhere now and it is sad because the local people are the ones that are hurt the most because they lose income and maybe their lives.

not in obamas time, theres just his type of justice and no one in the government have the balls to impeach the embarrassment.

indeed, let's hope so. I've heard things are slowly improving. my hope is to return one day, very soon.

I am sorry. I'm not sure where that is. but I can tell you I live in Mexico and am very safe. statistically speaking much safer than the Colorado city I moved from. For sure cartels are bad. War on Drugs. false markets. to make you feel a little better, I recently heard cartels were making more money by selling iron to China. no-they're not stealing it. it's actually a black market industry. see, in Mexico the govt says they own all the resources. Gallic shrug. so do you blame those for undermining that concept? pun intended. evil is evil. industry without force is not evil. if they move in that direction...well, hopefully so

it does make me sad when I think about it. there are lots of people I'd love to see that I haven't in a long time. in the town I used to visit there was a mass killing a year or two ago. overnight about 30 people gone... it's all incomprehensible to me whether the reasons be drugs or anything else. this town is not a resort or vacation spot where it's supposed to be safe, but it was enough for me to say no more to everything.

hi, mimi. :) Happy New Year to you as well. how's your sculpture coming along?

in my book, there will be justice. ;)

And yet we still don't know all of the details about Fast and Furious and no one has been held accountable.

that's sad. Even with this incident, tell me they are not happening in your nearby city.

you're right. I declined an invitation to Mexico last month because I just don't trust that incidents like these won't happen. I used to visit a few times a year. now - - not at all.

Minniepuck! Hi! Happy New Year to you and yours!

Well said. And all true.

No even remotely. The fed gov came up with plan. No other way for it to go down.

Ok, that's an ominous parallel.
Btw, how in the hell did they think they could track those firearms? Did they think the cartels would register them?? What a major cluster f#%£!

Is anyone really surprised by this?

I doubt we ever will, and I'm sure they will play hot potato with the subject until its forgotten, or till they find a good scapegoat. Either way, they walk, innocent people die, and the gun control freaks march onward over the bodies that they are liable for.

They forgot to mention that in order to track them they would have to end up at a murder scene. Collateral damage. Nothing to see here.