Who's else's family is calling hysterically from home wondering why we live is such a dangerous country/city? I have always felt safe here, even at home you have to be careful in what neighborhoods you hang out. Funny the people at home know before you do.
Thsi article has a picture of the place. Could not find it on Google streetview. Ataca comando antro en la Región 229 de Cancún: lo incendia y mueren 8 personas - Cancún I'm working in a news room today...defending my adopted country!
Fox News is calling it a "Cancun Hot Spot" The sensationalism would be hilarious if it weren't so depressing.
I notice the BBC has edited its original version after local residents updated them on the exact location of the bar !!! Well done to the BBC for that. Tracey
THE PLOT THICKENS: This is the English translation exerpted from an August 4 news story: Agents of an elite corps of the judicial police arrested a man identified as "Martin" who sought to extort the owner of a bar in the Gaza Ejidal Cancun. The judicial police on Tuesday night received the report on the emergency number 066 of extortion, in the bar called Castillo de Mar, located in Region 229 on Av. Leona Vicario Avenue near the corner of Av. Kabah. Agents from FRAI arrived at the scene and upon arrival at the bar called "Castillo del Mar" located in Region 229, on Avenue Leona Vicario near the corner of Av. Kabah, the owner said that this person came just before closing and was demanding $40,000.
The bar is about 2 blocks from where Jannets' Mum lives in 93. She knows of it and when we told her about the news she said 'it's a horrible place full of narcos'. It seems strange to me, that if the intention was to kill people, that armed men decide to throw incendiaries rather than use the guns they had with them at the time. My pure speculation is that the intention was to burn the place to the ground, the deaths being a result of the ferocity of the fire and lack of escape routes. My advice remains, if you put yourself in vulnerable positions such as visiting a seedy table dancing bar in a dodgy area of town that happens to be a known haunt of narco's and other undesirables at 1:30am on a Tuesday morning then you shouldnt be surprised if something bad happens. If on the other hand, that kind of activity is not your idea of fun then you are about as safe, if not moreso, than anywhere.
My thoughts: A quick stab at making a triply castle burn to the ground, failed. 8 deaths is a mass murder, sorry to say. It will blow over, but geez, can't our bad guys be more clever?
There are a lot of comparisons to the prohibition days in the states. Lots of bad guys killing each other off fighting over turf for who is going to run booze, drugs, prostitution and protection. Innocent bystanders that weren't into any of that didn't have a lot of problems. Same thing. So where is our Ellioto Nesso??? You can keep J.Edgar Hooverino.
