Assignment One Ino

1)I find it disturbing that little kids are just abducted off the streets in mexico. I also found it shocking to find that armed gunmen would dress up as police when they do the abductings. I think that mexico's culture seems to be violent with all the drugs and gangs just running around the streets. The police seem to be losing their way as the article stated they were linked to the kidnapping and possibly many others as well. Reading this article made me think about what else may be going wrong in mexico if they are already having problems with poverty, drugs, gangs, and kidnappings.

2)The involvement of the police in the kidnappings made me nervous about ever going to mexico. If i was to ever go there I would feel unsafe as the law may or may not protect you from bad things. I have never been to mexico before and this article just makes me more nervous to ever go there. I'm sure the beaches are very nice there however, outside of that on the streets I wouldn't feel safe from everything else going on.

3)If I was a Mexican resident an accident like this would no doubt cause me to live in fear. Maybe not so much where I would never want to set foot outside my house but I would still be fearful or even the police. This event would be worse to me then the weeks following 9/11. This is because the article made it seem like crime runs rampant throughout mexico whereas the 9/11 attacks was just one particular incident. The police were ever involved which would cause me to live in even more fear. The 9/11 attacks was just a foreign attack by terrorist trying to scare and possibly start a war in America.