Feb 27

Written by: host
2/27/2010 12:05 PM 

As an American living on the coast in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico I can’t disagree more with your caller from San Antonio. She is not here and only gets the view of the press and those involved in the violence heading north who are almost exclusively people involved in the drug trade.

We are not affected AT ALL by any drug violence. We live in a quite beautiful community with nearly 15,000 other Americans. None are leaving and none of them feel unsafe. No tourists have been involved in any of the drug violence in all of Baja. Quite the contrary, going to the states is a stressful event for us. I live here with my wife and 6 year old daughter and she benefits from an incredible education at a private bilingual academy. We cross the border every week, drive up and down the coast in a nice car every day and do not restrict our movements at night. WE NEVER HAVE ANY PROBLEMS!

There are parts of Tijuana that we will not drive through in the middle of the night but that can be said of any large US city.

The hysteria in the press is unfair and unfounded. It only exacerbates all of cross border issues. By creating the hysteria the tourism economy of México is being decimated; especially in the border areas of northern México. No one is leaving this area because of violence. Mexicans are leaving because they can not find work.

The US, México and the press need to work together to solve the drug issues created by the unquenchable thirst for illegal drugs in the United States. México could just give up and export the problem to the US. I don’t think anyone wants that.