My thoughts go out to the families. Unfortunately there is violence everywhere but i won't let that stop me from traveling to cancun on saturday.
Tragic for sure, I haven't been reading international press so didn't realize it had gotten out there. It's basically a dive in a bad neighbourhood, doesn't take away from the tragedy, but things like this happened even in Toronto when I was living there. Have never been in that region of Cancun, waaaay out of the tourist zone.
We have visited Cancun 4 times. We love to go the nightclubs in the touristy section. We really want to continue vacationing there. One thing that has always bothered me, we noticed on several occasions, that even the more frequented nightclubs do not seem to have capacity laws or at least ones that are followed. I remember thinking, if there is a fire here, there would be no possible way we would make it out....The drug cartel violence seems to be closer to our favorite vacation hideaway each time we book. One of the other forum members compared it to "if there was a shooting in a major US city, would you not visit or live there"... I hardly feel this was a fair comparison to what is going on in Mexico and their war on drugs. I can't help but wonder, how much longer until they are killing people inside of the well known, much visited clubs?? We will definately have to put more thought into our next vacation to Mexico.....
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.
I would equate what Steve says with going to East St. Louis, IL. Bottom line that's a place where bad sh*t is suppose to happen to you. Not to say that you couldn't go there and possibly not have bad sh*t happen to you, but you should not be the least bit shocked or suprised when bad sh*t happens to you because that's what supposed to happen to you while your there. :aktion034:
