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2024-12-15 Caribbean-Latin America

American couple killed in Mexico, found shot in pickup truck: officials

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10327 views ] Top
File under: Narcos

#1 Of course, we don't know what they were up to in this "do not travel" area.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-12-15 00:15|| 2024-12-15 00:15|| Front Page Top

Michoacán is listed as a "do not travel" spot in Mexico, according to the U.S. State Department.

This should have been the 2nd paragraph in the source article. It's kind of an important part of this tragic story.

Posted by Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-12-15 02:20|| 2024-12-15 02:20|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Yeeeeeah, the Cartels don't just whack people for sh!ts and giggles.

Or as Dad used to say, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-12-15 06:58|| 2024-12-15 06:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Or American citizens of Mexican descent who went back to visit family around the holidays and were in the wrong place at the wrong time/mistaken for someone else.

Posted by Remoteman 2024-12-15 12:32|| 2024-12-15 12:32|| Front Page Top

#5 "...black 2016 Ford Platinum pickup truck ..."

Or just in a vehicle that says we have money in a place where life is cheap and violence is endemic.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-12-15 13:27|| 2024-12-15 13:27|| Front Page Top

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