It's obvious when it's that cheap..3days and night all food and drinks inlcuded in Cancun for like 800 bucks a person..they're not trying to get their money back their just washing their money..their so rich they could actually let people go free
Was in Cancun 4 years ago. I asked a helper at my resort if it was safe at the resort. He calmly said the town we drove through and the two resorts were all owned by one family. I understood immediately what he meant by that.
Mexican resorts are safe because they are USA/EU/Canada owned. DEA run the cartels. Amlo is forcing foreign companies to play right, pay taxes, don't pollute, and pay their employees fair wages ....if they don't, they're begin kicked out of Mexico.
Yessir u don’t gotta worry about much I was smoking blunts on the beach and the resort staff would look out for me by letting me know when the marina would be passing by 😂
One of the things that don’t really get brought up is how safe Mexico actually is for tourists. If you’re a tourist, ESPECIALLY an American one, you’re pretty much 95% safe if you stay in tourist areas. Sure crime does still happen but one thing that people don’t talk about is the reprucucions that the people committing the crimes face. There’s countless stories of tourists getting robbed at gun point and getting their things taken and the next day receiving their items at their hotel the next morning from the cartel. The cartel cuts thief’s hands off and even kill them sometimes. They really don’t play when it comes to messing with tourists. They even patrol the streets along with the police to make make sure things are going smooth. They even check the police when the police are trying to squeeze tourists for bribes. Now it’s not because they think highly of us, it’s because they want us to keep coming back and spending money, not going to want to keep coming back if you get robbed or have a negative experience with the police.
Right! I went a few places where you were required to only get weed or anything from officially sanctioned dealers and the cops would protect you because everybody got paid. Step outside the lines and you're on your own but if you;re respectful being a gringo makes you safer than the locals.
We went to Cancun for senior trip, and not only did we find a guy selling blow our first day but the pharmacy that was a 2 min walk from our building sold pills. Like one of my friends walked in and jokingly said "hey man where's the good stuff" and he pulled out Vicodin, Klonopin, Valium etc. Not to mention the police riding in F-150s with full riot gear and m16's. God I miss it.
The cartels gun downed a caravan of mormons because they thought out was someone else, the mob makes sure who they are killing (most of the yime) is who they want dead. They were also old school back in the day, which means you treat people with respect until you don't.
@@LoganCharlesII that is part of the problem though, I grew up in a shithole part of Houston. I was 5ft tall until 16 and had a speech impediment, I got into alot of fights and enjoyed it until I grew to 6ft 1 and everyone started pulling guns. Fucking cowards, to scared to get hit in the mouth.
I don’t give a shit if they launder money the fucking US government launders money to. I just think it’s fucking cool that the resorts in Mexico they get protected by the fucking cartels shit that’s bad ass
So you know then? That Joe Rogan is the leader of the machine elves.. He only wants us to use DMT so he can have sex with our wives and girlfriends while we are away in dmt land..
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I've been saying this for years. I feel safe in the resort areas because the cartels have a vested interest in keeping me and my money alive. Lots and lots of times I've been chilling on a beach with machine gun guys standing nearby.
@@mukbang4265 no your story line is way to jumbled and I think the grammar is legit broken as well, the real loss of magic though is that it's just a clear copy of the top comment. 4/10 rip
Lmfaoooo LITERALLY three days ago cops over there saw us drinking in a car and tried taking 700 dollars from us .... when We told them I only had 300 dollars they took me to a bank with an international atm lol those piece of shits... luckily I asked a guy at the atm line of the cops can actually do that ... the guy I asked happen to be a lawyer ... so when we went to give the cops there money the lawyer comes with us and talks to the cops about what the issue was ... the cops said they never asked for money we probably misunderstood them bcs we weren’t from Mexico and didn’t know our spanish well ... lol I lived in Mexico for 3 years so I knew he was full of shit... be careful guys other then that CANCUN was amazing
@@Wcoast408 just stay in the tourists zones and beaches. If you have to go into town stay on the main roads and at the big stores and markets too. Oh and dont stay out after 12 pm other than around the bigger nightclubs or night bar areas. Just use common sense and basic logic.
I just wanna say this if you are watching this and second guessing traveling to Mexico out of fear... Don't... Especially not if you are going to a resort... You'll be fine... I went to Mexico City by myself and it was amazing... Good food, history, vibes... All that... Just don't be an idiot or go places that seem shady... You know, common sense... And plus, tbh, if you live in a major city in the USA, whether it's LA, Chicago, NYC, St Louis, Detroit, Philly, Atlanta, New Orleans etc... You already live in a place where people are getting shot all the time... You are just used to it and not involved, and probably don't even know when it's happening in your own city... You won't out there either... You'll eat your tacos, sit by the pool, get drunk, and be fine.
Fuck yeah, I went to Tulum last winter and had a blast, the cartel isn't stupid, they know Mexico needs tourism dollars, gringos getting robbed and capped gets attention, shaking down businesses where gringos spend money does not.
@@ShantyIrishman exactly... And even places that arent huge foreign tourist destinations like Mexico City are still fine... Literally millions of people live these place... They aren't being murdered non stop, but that's what people want you to believe... Now if you do goto a resort, come on, youll be fine
I wouldn’t go there because I’m not giving the scum of the world any of my money. They are all an abomination before God. It’s like going into the city, finding a local thug and giving him cash. No thanks. We should’ve taken the Entire land in the war not just half. Would be much better for the people there.
I’ve been to Puerto Vallarta 1 time, once to Cabo, 3 times to Cancun and once to Playa del Carmen. Never had issues or saw any violence including the nights a group of us would go out to the bars, malls... it’s like visiting Chicago. If you visit downtown it’s peaceful and nice but if you visit the south side/outskirts everything changes
I used to live in Cancun...there was always cartel there but they kept things running well and tourists were never affected. After I left, I have been vacationing back in Cancun yearly and see the cartel activity...the graffiti, the extortion of small businesses...the exodus of Burger King, of Pizza Hut, of a huge Perfume/watch store..Almost every store space is empty.The gangs fight over the turf...when it's a good Cartel us tourists hardly notice anything, when it's a young, inexperienced Cartel you see shootings in restaurants, on the beaches etc..
Mexican resorts are safe because they are USA/EU/Canada owned. DEA run the cartels. Amlo is forcing foreign companies to play right, pay taxes, don't pollute, and pay their employees fair wages ....if they don't, they're begin kicked out of Mexico.
I remember learning this lesson when I lived in San Diego over a decade ago. My then-wife had run into a woman police officer in a nail salon the day before we were set to drive down to one of the resorts maybe an hour south of the border, who was HORRIFIED to hear we were going to Mexico. This was at the beginning of when all the severed heads were being found in dumpsters in the war between the different cartels fighting over smuggling routes into the U.S. The lady cop, however, blew a HUGE sigh of relief when my wife told her we were headed for one of the coastal resorts down there and said "that's okay, then. They're each of them owned and operated (thus, protected) by the different cartels, who don't allow anyone to mess with the American tourists and the dollars they bring. The resorts are safer than The White House," she told her. She DID, however, recommend we drive STRAIGHT to wherever we were staying if we didn't want to risk getting held up along the way--mostly by Mexican police.
Bruh that's like someone here in the us working at a bar that's sick and does that yo a hot as woman some your wife doesn't tell the story for the every day person who visits those places
I recall some years ago who some cartels threw some decapitated heads into a crowded disco club dance floor down in Cancun. Turf wars can still ruin your vacation
We went last month to Acapulco and just like Rogan says, soon as you go out of the hotel in the main street, there are armed soldiers every 200 meters. It was such a crazy experience because it was my first time there and I never seen anything like it.
I actually knew a guy from my work that went down to Tijuana and was kidnapped and eventually killed....about two or three years later one of his close friends confessed that the group that went down to Tijuana with him were the ones that planned on robbing him, but the guy from my work didn't give in and refused to. Eventually his friends felt trapped and didn't see a way out but to kill him.
@PKD Orion but your comment is nothing to do what he commented, u started rambling on about some bullshit whereas my comment is related to you being tapped in the head.
@dingle Berry there are hundres of international hotel companies in the area, he's acting like the only money or investment that exist in mexico comes from drugs, and that's some major BS, my friend.
Mexican story time for context, both parents mexican, born and raised in the US, went to their hometown for usual holidays anyways, got blasted when I was 16 and lost myself during the "Christmas eve" parade with all of the 3 kings, and ended up on a lone Mexican highway. eventually, I was stopped by a white truck with some men, women, and children on it, about 5-6. They asked if I needed a ride back to "el centro" which was basically the center with the big church and the city gardens. I said yes, and they promptly scooped me up and brought me back. however, on the way back, I noticed that the men sitting in the back had full-on black-matte shotguns and had their feet on a tarp with metallic sounding "curtain rods". they smelled of expensive cologne, they had very good looking teeth compared to the majority of my native family members, and most spoke VERY americanized english (i.e. "fuck, man", "okay", and "you looked disoriented back there, bud") it wasn't until many years later that i realized that the reason why they picked me up was because i looked American as fuck. the cartel in the area don't want their own people, as well as rich tourists, to be scared to spend their money there. in fact, all departments in those cities seemed quite handsomely funded, as noted by the two guards in front of the market with body armor, wielding some mp5 of some varient with an optic. 2016 ford f150s with the city's logo on it, all trash picked off of the streets not even 2 hours after the final event of a festival, and public wifi that's actually a decent 8-9 MB/s, not a lot of phone lines hanging anymore.
They pay for two thirds of your vacation too! How does a week in Mazatlan with a round trip flight, food and resort for a week cost 900 bucks? Most round trip flights within the US are like 600 alone
I've only ever stayed at Secets resorts in Mexico, which are actually owned by a Spanish company (if that means anything). I've never felt more safe, and Ive never been offered anything drug wise. When we've gone on excursions they've always kept us super safe, and warned us about going off on our own.
“Spanish” company is probably just shell companies for cartels. I went into town with my family and they asked us where we were staying. The locals told us that on our next trip if we could stay at (forgot the names) resorts because they’re locally owned and the money stays in the city instead of into overseas accounts. Actually, now that I’m typing this out it could be completely backwards and the guy could of been advocating for local owned cartel resorts. It’s honestly hard to say lol.
I have had friends tell me that when they were down there they were looking for cocaine and after purchasing it one of the resort workers they later showed up to his room with some sort of law enforcement and they literally made him clean his account out or be arrested for possession of drugs, it's a pretty good racket if you think about it lol.
Been there extensively over the past few years, the war is ongoing and has literally effected every family in Mexico in some way. It’s really sad and very tough to see
Where do you get your info: “has affected every family in Mexico” I’m from Mexico and besides some isolated events in remote parts on some states the vast majority of Mexicans live a normal life, actually thousands of Americans are moving to Mexico causing gentrification look up. Mexico has the largest us population overseas and I don’t see them fleeing.
The military checkpoint Joe sees at Punta Mita is the border crossing for Nayarit and Jalisco. Produce inspection, vehicle search, normal stuff. Now turn the golf cart around and get back to the Four Seasons guero!
I survived a time share presentation in Cancun....didn't realize it was run by the cartel until I got to the 3rd tier of the sales presentation and kept saying no.... got a little nervous with the last guy! This was in the late 90's... and figured this out by accident
It's propably the same reason why the streets where the mob had its influences were so safe back in the day. Criminals didn't dare to hurt anyone, assault anyone, or steal anything, because they knew that everybody there knew somebody, who knew somebody that was in the La Cosa Nostra. And they could find those people
Two times that I've been in Mexico I've been rousted once by cops and the second time by a tourist guide who offered directions to a place I was going and when I started to leave he said that will be 50 American dollars and I told him I was not going to pay and he started hollering for the Mexican police and then I realized I had no other choice I paid him the $50 and went on my way , the next time I was in Cancun walking and got in the wrong part of town by accident and two Mexican cops stopped me for no reason because I was an American and started messing with me I seen what was happening and I asked them how much would it take to let me go they said 40 American dollars , I paid them they said have a good day but you better go to another part of town
Funny he mentions Punta Mita, I used to be a waiter at a beach club besides the 4 seasons. This is cartel land. You actually have " puntos" throughout the whole bay where u just walk up to the spot and get your drugs. They post up everywhere and everyone knows, police, military, the goverment. Everyone is in on it.
My ex-wife told me the truth to a story recently. Her sister I was in Mexico and got into a small automobile accident, to sum up the store my ex gave her wedding ring up so do keep her sister out of jail.
I grew up in Mexico right around Punta Mita and the military is always around, fully loaded but I never heard or witnessed any kind of shoot out or confrontation with the military. They are just sort of around.
I vacation in Mexico all the time and have for years. I can confirm the truth of this 100%. The cartels also tax ppl selling/renting shit on the beach.
I have stayed in punta de Mita since I was two , I stayed inside the gates for 4 years now have stayed at our house which is out for 11 years and depending on your time that you go the guards and military come due to if the president of Mexico is staying in punta Mita which is where he goes for breaks.
I stayed in Tulum at a place called Playa Azul about 8 years ago. Beautiful resort right on the beach, very lowkey probably a couple of cabanas but also quite luxurious. Sometime in 2015 that resort and others on that beach front were seized by the “police”. Now all I have is the memory and a t shirt.
The cartel got the whole government system on lock and there’s not a damn thing that could change that unless you brought in foreign armed police personnel.. even then I’m sure it would take a long time to break down their intense structured system..
I was down in a South American country which I cannot disclose in particulars but several weeks after I was there a woman from the same organization was abducted murdered and some other stuff right under the nose of the staff. So let’s just say I haven’t been back to that resort in a long time
pretty much had this same thought the first time i went to mexico, i'm safe at this nice resort because it is probably in some cartels best interest to keep it that way
