We're back in Oregon now, settling in to the chilly rain and looking forward to a warmer afternoon to begin planting my community garden box, seen here from our kitchen window. I can guarantee you the view will improve by mid-summer!Each time we are welcomed home it comes with the question, "Did you feel safe?" It is a strange question because of course we felt safe or we wouldn't have stayed. We live in a difficult to reach section of central Mexico where there are drugs, of course, but not an easy through route for trafficking to the north. There are far more problems along the coasts, along the border towns and north of the border on the drug routes, even up through Oregon.
This blog, Regarding Mexico: Biased News, Half-Truths Fuel Paranoia, from Salon.com discusses the media frenzy to make Mexico the scary enemy. Also a part-time resident in Mexico, the author discusses what she calls the "toxic cauldron media blitz" that Americans are being served, stressing that what is happening now in Mexico is non-random acts of violence which do not target tourists in general or Americans specifically. Take a minute, if you will, to read her thoughts on this.
