The farthest I went into Mexico was Tijuana back over ten years ago. The experience was SUCH a disgusting one that I swore on a drunken sailor lying on the curb that I'd never go south-of-the-border again.

And tourists are fair game as far as murders go- the drug fiasco that is going on down there has essentially exploded in the last couple of years. If you aren't killed just for being in the middle of a drug cartel shootout, you're murdered for your money and bling. This stretches from TJ all the way down to Mazatlan and regions of Chiapas.

Tourists are especially vulnerable to kidnappings and being held in prison without trial by crooked police down there, too.

To say that neither won't happen is simply not true.

it was Mexican

lots of kidnappings and murders these days

I won't go again