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Originally Posted by Pizza
For those who are defending traveling to Mexico with 1 in a million stats, I'd like to know if the stats are worse at other Caribbean tourist areas like Cuba or DR
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Stats can be misleading because they can be manipulated to show what the presenter wants them to show. For instance, the link below shows the murder rates, by country, per 100,000 inhabitants. If you check out those numbers, Mexico doesn't even crack the top 10...it is actually 20th and with a lower rate than some of those other great vacation spots like the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and the Bahamas. I don't work for the Mexico Tourism Board so I don't really care where anyone vacations, but its naive to say that, with the possible exception of Cuba, any of the Carribean Islands are a whole lot safer or worse than Mexico. I have been to Mexico a few times, the Dominican, Cuba, and Jamaica, and have gone off the resorts at all these places. The only place where I was a little worried at all was Jamaica.
Its been mentioned before but it really is true...you do get what you pay for...if security in any of these countries is concern, go somewhere else. Another thing I think we take for granted is the fact that the majority of us posting on this board come from Canada, one of the safest countries in the world, and Calgary, one of the safest cities in Canada. So anytime we leave our country and go to an area considered part of the "developing world" (I believe we aren't allowed to say 3rd world anymore) you are taking a bit of a risk.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._homicide_rate