• Vespair@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    I’ve been to Mexico like 6 times.

    The first 5 times were all excellent trips, wonderful places, wonderful people.

    The sixth time, we were all literally robbed by Mexican police officers at the airport who claimed we couldn’t leave the country without paying an “exit tax” of $200 USD each, and told us we either paid and got on our flight home or we didn’t pay and they took us to prison.

    I don’t go back to Mexico now.

        • BambiDiego@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Is this how we improve the US?

          Tell all the racists they’re behaving worse than Mexicans?

          Is this how we improve Mexico?

          Tell all the Mexicans they’re really just bad Americans?

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        7 months ago

        Sorry but I have been to both countries and only in Mexico did the state police with big guns extorted money from me. And that was not a nice experience.

  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I’ve lived in Mexico for over 20 years now, and yeah there is crime, yeah there are problems, but I rarely felt unsafe, really.