I lived in the DF for the year during college in sequence to sense Spanish, as well as we additionally gathering around the lot as well as visited Guadalajara, Guanajuato, Merida, as well as even gathering to El Salvador once to revisit the chick.
Those cities (yes, even San Salvador) were many nicer in many ways than the limit cities in Mexico. Tijuana has the little fine parts, as well as Mexicali isn’t so bad, though CJ is the goddamned hellhole. we was there final year, as well as 4 dudes in an SUV were shot to genocide dual blocks from my motel during 3am. People didn’t go out during night due to violence.
Nuevo Laredo isn’t many better; Reynosa as well as Matamoros have been rather better, though they have been additionally not as big as well as not all which interesting.
Even Monterrey is way, approach improved than any of the cities right along the border, as well as which city is around 120 miles or so from the US border.
Why did Mexico’s limit cities spin in to sum hellholes? Normally, when we have an under-developed republic subsequent to the grown nation, the limit segment of the under-developed republic is essentially the wealthiest as well as most-developed part. Sort of similar to Singapore’s borders with Malaysia as well as Indonesia.
But in Mexico, the nicest places have been low in the south, as well as the limit is the aroused warzone.
It’s where the guns from the US meet up with the drugs from SA.
border cities are launching pads for drug trade into the US
americas insatiable appetite for cocaine and heroin