How safe/dangerous is Baja these days?

[Burnin' oil]

I was in Tijuana last week and the only problem I had was with a US Customs jerk.

[m21sniper]

I was in North Philly last week and had no problems.

But over 400 people were murdered there last year.

Any individual one time, "Bah nothing happened," is pretty meaningless as a useful barometer, don't you think?

[red-beard]

60+ murders this past weekend in Juarez, alone, including 2 Americans.

It's worse than Philly. Population is about the same, 1.5 Million.

[m21sniper]

LOL, wow. That's pretty bad!

Philly had 686 last year- only slightly less!

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Let me put it this way, we pulled a $180 Million movie out of Rosarita solely based on security concerns from our internal security who are all ex-CIA, NSA, FBI. We have lots of money, and can shoot anywhere and we said Eff it.

do you realize how much revenue is brought down for the (3) SCORE races???


275 race teams(san felipe 250 last weekend) X a hell of alot of pesos-dollares.


sal fish el prezidente of SCORE has some pretty hefty payments to landowners for race access. if anymore racers are hassled/mugged/robbed/ripped off..............baja is going to see a plummeting tourista dollar amount that will hurt everyjuan. its a shame because it is BREAK THE FUN BARRIER FUN, but hey what the hell is yer life worth to pit/race/watch?


until they get a grip on the corruption in the rank and file militars/federales/polizia/mayors/councilman etc. nothing is gonna change.


just today i read in the az republic that 20K is being offered to take a load of goodies across the border.


20K to a mexican living in baja may as well be 5 million dollars!

[red-beard]

Reported on the News today: 4700 murdered in Juarez since 2008. That is a bit above Philly.

[m21sniper]

We're at about 1500ish in the same time frame.