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My wife and I are considering spending next winter in the Mulege area. Our biggest concern is safety, or violence in the area. Has the border drug problems effected Mulege? I know you can't do stupid things like flash alot of money around, or go out in the middle of the night. So aside from all the basic common sense stuff, is it "safe". I know everyone has a different idea of what safe is. But any opinions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. We're from central California, in a rural setting, with no crime to speak of. Email me off list if you prefer. moldman200@yahoo.com Thanks | ||
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You will be fine. Ian from Bakersfield and if you would like to call me I can fill you in Glenn. 7605493651 | |||
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I am living in the Mulege area. Not right in town and not in one of those parks like Orchard or Oasis. I can tell you, you can walk the streets of Mulege at midnight and nothing will happen. Your wife can walk at 2 in the morning and she will not be molested at all. Mulege is maybe one of the safest places in Baja. Well, there are certainly other safe places, but Mulege is one of them. The drug problem in Mulege is limited to those who smoke it. Nothing else. And most importat: The Mulege people are maybe the friendliest in all of Baja. Talking about the Mexicans is what I mean. Any other questions, let me know. | |||
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U.S. tourists held up in Mexico, Boise plane hi-jacked According to the Associated Press, gunmen held up a family of U.S. tourists in Mexico on Tuesday, April 15, and made off with their Cessna 206 Stationair, which is registered to a Boise company. The robbers attacked the plane as Patrick Moroney, 55, his wife Kimberly, their 6-and-8 year-old daughters, and 38-year-old family friend Lin Hawkins, all of Boise, were about to take off from a hotel airstrip in the Baja California beach town of Mulege. More Detective Juan Carlos de Jesus Jimenez said the thieves pulled a car in front of the six-seat Cessna knocked out one of its windows and forced the tourists out at gunpoint. They then set fire to the car and flew off in the plane. U.S. officials said they had heard reports about the incident but had not yet been in contact with the victims. The plane's identification number matched a craft registered to a company in Boise. Additional details were not immediately available. Small aircraft are commonly used by Mexican drug cartels to smuggle narcotics. Editor's note—I had sent an e-mail to Bobbi and Dave Powers who have a home in Mulege not knowing if they were still there or had returned to Montana. This is the e-mail response from Dave with more details about the incident: Hi Art--This is Dave. I am in Mulege and Bobbi is in Arizona with a student from South Africa. I know Pat, whose 206 was hi-jacked. I talked to him and his family about an hour after the fact. He was flying family with two little children out and had taxied to the south end to take off on 32. He had done his run-up while taxiing. He did a 180 and was face to face with a car which had followed him up the airstrip. Four Mexicans jumped the fence by the plane with guns drawn and the two in the car got out and all went to the plane with guns pointed. They ordered everyone OUT NOW OR DIE. Pat was not fast enough and they broke the pilot window and pointed the gun to Pats head and said OUT NOW OR DIE. Everyone deplaned and the Mexicans pushed the car to the side of the runway and had already doused it with gasoline and torched it. They then jumped in the plane-all six-and took off and turned up river to the west. It appeared to observers they were on the verge of a stall. Full fuel, quite a little luggage left in the plane and the six Mexicans were not small. About 10 minutes later the plane was seen coming from the west over our home in Posada and heading south. The six bandits had been around Mulege for over a week and were supposedly camped close to the end of the runway. The information was sent to all airports and thousands of pilots thru BajaBushPilots.com within minutes of the event. Our Maule was next to the 206 and is still there, I hope. I know I will defiantly be more alert to all around me when I get ready to take off. It is sad and I know it will deter many from flying to Mexico, but when you think of all the car hi-jacking in the US and this is the first, to my knowledge, of a private airplane being hi-Jacked in Mexico.The only good thing is Pat and family did not try to be heroes so no one was injured. I believe they all lost all their licenses, CC, passports, money, luggage, computers, cell phones, cameras etc. Pat has had a home in Mulege for many years and has helped the town a lot when the hurricane came thru two years ago. He is active in other groups helping the locals also. We had a turbo 210 stolen from the field a year ago but to my knowledge nothing else. | |||
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My husband and I are from Sacramento, Ca and we feel safer in Mulege than we do in Sacramento. Mulege is a great little town with great people. We will be there from November to May. Go and enjoy Mulege. | |||
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Great place, very safe. And TomTom WAS right when he said the locals are extremely friendly. They have been very courtious and gracious to me since I rolled into the area a month ago. Could'nt ask for nicer poeple to be around. | |||
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What about those locals who stole your equipment and generator? Were they nice theives? | |||
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"PESSIMISTIC"  Definition: expecting bad outcome Synonyms: bleak, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, discouraged, distrustful, downhearted, fatalistic, foreboding, gloomy, glum, hopeless, melancholy, misanthropic, morbid, morose, resigned, sad, sullen, troubled, worried Antonyms: confident, optimistic, trusting ------------------------------------ Fulano: Have a nice day 
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Definition of 'pessimist': A 'pessimist' is an 'optimist'... ....WITH ALL THE FACTS.......... *grin* | |||
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hey Fulano, who said they were locals???....All I ever said was there were locals there on site when I dropped off my fisrt load and when I retunred my things were gone and so were the locals. And yeah, they were nice. They waved at me when I drove out of the place....so there!!!  | |||
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Forum Home Page Baja Forums Discussions - Mulege - Punta Chivato - Santa Rosalia Forum Safety in the Mulege area
Baja Forums Discussions - Mulege - Punta Chivato - Santa Rosalia Forum Safety in the Mulege area