Howard wrote:
> A Mordida is a bribe paid to a police officer. It is the fastest route out
> of any jam in Latin America. Culturally its very hard for the average
> American to get past the thought that an attempted bribery of a police
> officer is a serious offense. In Latin America it is nothing more the a
> manner of susidizing police wages, while enforcing common traffic and other
> laws. ( A Guadalajara motorcycle cop earns $125. dollars/mo. What he earns
> in "mordidas" is what keeps food on his family's table.
>
Ahhh.
That gave me allot of information.
A law enforcement officer only makes $125 a month.
That would indicate to me that $25 a week is still a fairly high wage
there.
That would indicate to me that my lousy little retirement pay would
give me fairly high standing down there.
I have been exploring the option of living in the US as a pauper, or in
Mexico as someone with standing.
What would be the standard acceptable "fine" that I should expect to
offer an officer for normal situations?
> " Never drive at night" has lonh been the #1 rule of driving in Mexico.
> Decades of stories of "bandidos" on the highways have kept even mexican
> travelers off the highways at night. Twenty years ago it was common for all
> types of large animals to wander across the road in front of you at any
> hour. Broken down vehicles often simply remain where they break down, and
> the driver or his partner go off in search of parts. Meanwhile the totally
> darkened vehicle sits in the middle of the road while you approach.
> Sometimes with the driver asleep in a hammock slung between the axles of his
> truck. Goats sheep, cattle and horses used to wander the roads. Much of that
> has changed in recent years, and now its far more common to see horses
> staked out to graze alonside the road, but they cannot get into the roadway.
> Roads are inevitably dark and narrow, frequently without lane markers or
> lines of any kind. There are seldom any guardrails. Sand, gravel, and
> spilled diesel are all common. Pedestrians, drunk and sober are also common,
> as are bicyclists. Then there's the drunks........Howaver, in recent years,
> with the advent of the Toll road system in Mexico, night travel in many
> areas has become relatively safe. Large boulders can be expected though
> during the rainy season in many areas, but at least there are no "bandidos"
> on the tollroads. They are heavily policed.Traffic is generally light due to
> the high cost.
Ok.
I have one person that I am corresponding with that is telling me that
I should not worry about crime in Mexico any more then I do it Tulsa,
Oklahoma, USA.
Like I am way to concerned.
Now you talk as if bandits commonly hijack cars on the hiways.
Can you help me out?
I'd really appreciate any information aimed at allowing me to travel
into Mexico without getting into any trouble.
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