I used to travel to Juarez frequently when I was in El Paso. Like you I stopped going when the cartels started flexing their muscles. They had a van drive around the city every day just to pick up the bodies. I forget what it was called in Spanish, but it translated roughly as "meat wagon." Come across a gas station one day where a husband and wife were both shot at the station while sitting in their Cadillac. That's when I said, I'm done. There was a huge marketplace in the city that the cartel burned down because the tenants didn't want to pay for protection fees. Things were spiraling out of control. I have not been back to Mexico in years. It is not the same place.
I used to travel to Juarez frequently when I was in El Paso. Like you I stopped going when the cartels started flexing their muscles. They had a van drive around the city every day just to pick up the bodies. I forget what it was called in Spanish, but it translated roughly as "meat wagon." Come across a gas station one day where a husband and wife were both shot at the station while sitting in their Cadillac. That's when I said, I'm done. There was a huge marketplace in the city that the cartel burned down because the tenants didn't want to pay for protection fees. Things were spiraling out of control. I have not been back to Mexico in years. It is not the same place.