Reply #7: The police presence in non-border towns... [View All]

[a la izquierda]

has been upped over the past couple of months. I'm in Tepic, Nayarit right now. You can't go outside without tripping over three types of cops: Federal, State and Local. It's insane. I usually stay in Guadalajara. Cops everywhere, even in the nice neighborhoods. When I was there in 2007, not so much. When I can down last summer for my 5 month stay, you could tell something was really not right. This became particularly noticeable after the 16 September bombing in Morelia, Michoacan. That was a very tense few days around Guadalajara, and the highway between the two cities.

I'm not sure where you're staying. True, things are not violent everywhere, but they're surely not normal either.