Just curious. Company wants to send me there on business in August and I'm a little concerned about the State Department's travel warnings. Gonna call the consulate there at 2PM today, but just in case anyone has done business there recently wanted to see if there was any input.

7/26/2010 11:35:45 AM

I don't know about that area specifically, but I would pretty much refuse to go to Mexico for business under any circumstances.

7/26/2010 11:47:44 AM

^ fully second that. I dont travel, but Ive a family member that does and he about quit a job when they wanted to send him down there.

7/26/2010 11:58:22 AM

lol i got sent to the Virgin Islands once and my buddy got sent to Puerto Rico for work

one of us had a lovely time on a beautiful island
the other did not

i feel this would place you in the latter

7/26/2010 12:15:17 PM

I've never been to Puerto Rico before myself, but I know a guy who went down on a year-long field assignment to a project we had there and he liked it so much that, at the end of the job, he asked for a transfer to our satellite office there. Different strokes I suppose.

7/26/2010 12:21:22 PM

Yeah my dad loves when they send him to Puerto Rico for business.

They stopped sending him to Mexico when their liability department started requiring kidnapping insurance for all business trips made to Mexico

7/26/2010 12:34:50 PM

They just announced finding a mass grave there yesterday:

Quote :

"At least 51 bodies found in mass graves in Mexico Garza said Friday that the bodies were in an area spanning 3 hectares (about 7 acres) in the municipality of Juarez outside the state capital of Monterrey. Investigators were still searching for additional graves Friday, he said, according to Notimex. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/25/mexico.mass.graves/index.html?iref=allsearch"

I wouldn't go, but if you do you should try to get on a tour of the mass graves. It might be really interesting.

7/26/2010 12:42:12 PM

^ like the holocaust, but not as sad?

7/26/2010 1:08:43 PM

Yeah, I'm *heavily* leaning toward no. But I'm gonna give the consulate a call and talk to someone on the ground there.

7/26/2010 1:30:18 PM

time to look for a new job.

7/26/2010 1:49:31 PM

I'm not going to lose my job if I say no, probably.

[Edited on July 26, 2010 at 2:04 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2010 2:03:38 PM

If you end up going please let me know. I'll pay you cash money to bring back a package for me.

7/26/2010 2:06:23 PM

i lived in monterrey for 2 years...planning on going back and visiting here pretty soon...and i spent 6 weeks this summer in southern mexico. i know quite a bit about this.

i wouldnt be too concerned about the travel warnings. almost all of the violence there is between drug cartels, not much going on with americans. If you are in a drug cartel, its violent. But other than that, especially for americans, i wouldnt worry about it at all. Like with any travel, you just have to be smart and dont do anything dumb. While i lived in Monterrey, I met alot of american families living there in San Pedro, most of which work for the state dept.

if you have any more questions just pm me, i can pretty much answer most questions about the city.

7/26/2010 2:52:15 PM

i was there in april for a weekend visiting a girlfriend of mine

but the tropical storm alex kind of tore shit up so thats prob more of a concern



the food is cheap & delicious & the weddings are fun as hell!

7/27/2010 7:20:10 PM