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Saturday, May 17 2008 - 08:41 AM
Just got back from Ixtapa Mexico
Just got back from Ixtapa Mexico and yes even with all the Mexicans coming to America there are still Mexicans in Mexico. We checked to see what some of them were being paid down there. Many were receiving 5 to 8 dollars per day. If you work in construction you are piad $200.00 per week for a 50 hour week. Most of the roads down there are dirt and the highway is full of holes. The police there carry automatic rifles and there are many road blocks looking for drugs. The night or two before I got there there were 22 people killed in one of the small towns I past through in a drug lord battle. At night you don’t travel that road because they pull counut trees across the raod to stop your car and then they take your money and kill you.
While I was there we tried to get to a small fishing town but the road was blocked by Mexicans protesting. The road was filled with Police with the automatic weapons. They said the road would be closed for about 2 hours so we didn’t get to go to that town. They say this happens all the time.
We looked at some land right on the beach and the land that was for sale had four people that had built houses on the land they don’t own and the owner can’t do anything about it other than pay the people around $30,000 to move off them off of your own land just because they built a house on your property you don’t have any rights. If you try and throw them off you could end up dead.
The place was filled with counut trees and one town we went through only made counut candy, the next town we went through only produced salt and placed it in bags and sold it along the road. People build their houses out of clay bricks and you see little business like one man type business making clay brick mixing clay with counut shells.
When you build down their they will charge you taxes if you finish your house so no one finishes the house. They leave rebar sticking up above the roof all around the house so they say its not done. This happens with just about every house has this rebar sticking up, some they put coke bottles on the end of the rebar in some of the homes.
138hwy says...
Makes me want to go there pronto..
Is this the reason that illegal aliens have so much pride in the country they want to get out of?
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bear says...
In Mexico you can drink and drive or drive drunk. If you hit some one or kill some one you have to give them everything you own to pay for either killing them or hurting them which ever the judge says. So down there land changes hands a lot. Now you can see why the illegals come here drink and drive hit some one and they don’t have to give up anything here. They just run for the border. This is another reason we really should have safety checks more often. This is how the man that owned some land he showed us got his land.
Down there the government owns all the rivers, streams and the beach area.They don’t do any testing on their well water and the have septic systems every where and with the water only down about 12 feet one can only guess whats in the water.When you travel down their so called highway which is very small and full of holes you will come to what they call towns, many outside open air restaurants along the road or at least that is what they call them. Maybe only has 2 tables and an open fire with a couple of chickens hanging over it, then served with a little rice, if in a fishing village fish cooked the some way with a little rice.
They say Al Gore and his Global warming has affected them there also, every thing made of corn has increased in price due to making ethanol and taking the corn.
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bear says...
The airport we landed on only had our jet landing the field was empty, only two small old planes at one end. The place reminded me of the movies where the police or government from there were chasing the drug dealers coming in for a landing.
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annette tappa says...
Ungrateful Americans/welfare recipients should be forced to stay in Mexico for 30 days to make them realize how wonderful our land is.
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Ray Cunneff says...
Jeez, Hob!
You’re not really going to try and build down there? Under those conditions?
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bear says...
Ray, I wouldn’t build down there but my client might.
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bear says...
A trip to Mexico
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