This question rates among the most controversial on any Internet forum about Mexico.
Crime is a complex subject woven deep in any country's social fabric.
The answers you find could bring you closer to your own idea of the safety of tourist travel in Mexico. Bill, my husband, reassured me that since this was Mexico, he would haggle over the price for my safe return. The Playa de Oro airport lies thirty miles south of the two sister ocean side villages of San Patricio Melaque and Barra de Navidad, Jalisco. Five years ago I had camped at the north end of the San Patricio Melaque beach with my family. As we were settling down in our small trailer on the second night, loud, abusive voices from our gringo neighbours rent the peaceful fabric of the evening.