More Alleged Mexican Cartel Murders; 55 More Dead, Bound, and Blindfolded in Mexico
More Alleged Mexican Cartel Murders, Including a Playa Del Carmen Resort Security Head!
55 Dead, Bound, Blindfolded Found in Mexican Mine Shaft
More alleged Mexican cartel victims have been found according to CNN. This time the victims weren't in a cave near Cancun, a resort town. And this batch of bodies was 12 times as many as the ones found in a cave, with their hearts cut out of their bodies.
This larger group of dead were found in a mine shaft in the city of Taxco. Mexican police began unearthing bodies approximately a week ago, with the most recent count totaling 55.
Mexico Resort Security Personnel Among the Dead
The alleged drug cartel victims found mummified, skeletonized, bound or blindfolded, included one Mexican resort security head named Isaias Valenzuela Ruiz.
Ruiz was head of security at Playa del Carmen Resort, a hot vacationing spot for Americans, especially during the summer months. Ruiz's addition to the dead numbered in the Mexican mine shaft is concerning for vacationing Americans, as it shows that even someone functioning as the head of security for a major resort in Mexico is not safe.
American Security Not Guaranteed
Isaias Valenzuela Ruiz wasn't mummified or skeletonized. His body hadn't been missing long enough. Ruiz had only been reported missing since the last five days, making his disappearance from his post as head of Playa del Carmen Resort a concern for vacationing tourist staying there.
Mexican authorities are being hesitant to lay the murders at the feet of the drug cartels, especially on the heels of their country's president making such declarations about America being the drug problem--not Mexico. But few other explanations can explain the death of 55 people, including a Mexican resort security head, who would have not been lax with his own security.
More Dead Bodies Feared
The Taxco mine has 10 more ventilation shafts that are now going to be searched as well, per the Mexican authorities. The fear is that this most recent find will not be the last.
Americans planning a vacation to Mexico's Cancun area, where six dead people were found in a nearby cave, and to Playa del Carmen Resort, where the resort's lead security person was abducted, and numbered among the 55 found dead elsewhere in Mexico this week, should exercise even greater caution than before.
Unlike Mexican President Felipe Calderon's admonition that the U.S. is the drug problem, American's might well become the drug victims if vacationing in Mexico. And that is proving to be a very reliable fact, based on news stories making the rounds.
Published by Radell Smith
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16 Comments
Post a Comment@Maggie, By the way, you will be unable to comment in the future on this article, as anonymous comments will now not be allowed due to the one I had to recently delete of yours. Sorry to all legitimate comment posters out there.
@Maggie: Your continued comments are not anything more than sour grapes that the tourism industry is suffering due to journalists reporting actual atrocities occurring in Mexico. Name-calling the journalists who report such info is not a productive use of your time as a tourism operator. I suggest you put that effort into promoting the hotels and resorts you are paid to do, instead.
Radell: Thanks for correcting the error. I won't argue with you that Mexico has dangerous areas, or that there are drug wars going on. It's just frustrating for me, as a Cancun local, to see the media exaggerate the situation to make Americans think they'll die just for going on vacation.
This violence has been almost entirely limited to the drug community. Therefor, if you're not in the drug community, no danger.
In 5 years here, I've never seen a murder, a dead body, or even drugs. I walk my dogs at night with no worries, I've never been threatened, I take taxis all the time, and I'm a young girl who's often out by herself. Cancun is NOT dangerous.
4 people were shot at a restaurant in Hollywood last April. Does that make LA dangerous? No. Is Maryland dangerous because a man took 35 people hostage at the Discovery building this week? Certainly not.
@Laura, thanks for reading too, but you will never get me to stop warning Americans about imminent danger. I have a criminal justice background so I know the lay of the land and the odds. You dont' have to read, however, if you don't agree with my "warnings." But one day, one of them may aid you.
@Maggie: I'm a big girl, so I own up to it if I make a mistake. You are correct about page 2, I thought you were referring to pg 1. But your comment about Mexico being safe is misleading to people who might go there. All these people are being murdered, you can't guarantee their safety just because you haven't been harmed. This article is to caution American tourists who plan to travel there. However, I've tweaked pg. 2 to more clearly show I wasn't saying he was in Playa del Carmen Resort when killed and nor were the 55, but he was abducted from there, which makes it highly dangerous for others. Thanks for reading and commenting.
I agree with Maggie... page 2 definitely states that the 55 were found dead in Playa del Carmen. As for the last sentence of your article... Americans will only become drug victims if they get heavily involved in the drug trade.
Please stop spreading fear. Cancun and Playa del Carmen are extremely safe areas. It's like any other city... just a matter of not going to sketchy places with sketchy people to do sketchy business.
I've lived in Cancun 5 years, and I resent the American media calling it a dangerous area. It most certainly is not.
I've also visited the stunning city of Taxco. Sad situation to be sure, but very far from being a dangerous city for a regular citizen or traveler.
I neglected to make one very important point. Your article states that the 55 found dead were found in Playa del Carmen. This is totally NOT TRUE...they were found in a cave in Taxco Mexico...thousands of miles from Playa del Carmen...I rest my case
Radel,
You wrote on page 2 these exact words..
Americans planning a vacation to Mexico's Cancun area, where six dead people were found in a nearby cave, and to Playa del Carmen Resort, where the 55 dead were found this week, should exercise even greater caution than
before. Unlike Mexican President Felipe Calderon's admonition that the U.S. is the drug problem, American's might well become the drug victims if vacationing in Mexico.
I think you need to uderstand that the county of Mexico is huge and spans across almost 3,000 miles. The bulk of all this horror has taken place more than 2,000 miles from Cancun/Playa del Carmen. Also, the Playa Secrity Agent was definitely from Playa but he was killed in the mine in Taxco which is near Mexico City which is thousands of miles from Playa del Carmen. I have been travelling to Mexico and especially Playa del Carmen for well over 20 years and I have always know about the drug wars and crime....but that being said, 99% of crime is directed
@Maggie: I don't ask for much, but I do expect you to actually read the article before posting. Please read it again, so you can separate the facts on the page: Isaias Valenzuela Ruiz, one of the dead, was the "Security head at Playa del Carmen Resort". The article never said he or the 55 were killed there; however, if he can be taken from there, he can be killed there. Mexico is not safe...anywhere in Mexico...at present.
Get your story straight..The 55 killed were killed in Taxco and NOT Playa del Carmen...