telephone extortion...

This week my family has been the victim of telephone extortion. This seems to be a “normal” thing in Mexico. Well, according to other people and the Mexican police we should not pay attention to it and just let it go. I always thought family was a big thing in Latin America, but in Mexico it seems not. How can you just “let it go” and “not pay attention to it” as your family, your wife, your children have been threatened to be killed? How is it possible that the police of Colima are not taking seriously your complaint? How is it possible that they can’t just check a phone registry and get the people who are such COWARDS to only try to threaten people by telephone? Being such cowards to not show their face doing this? That is what I am wondering. I love Mexico and I am very happy to live here, but this week my faith in the Mexican people has dropped.

Also the new law they have here: “the law of transparency” is supposed to fight crime, but instead… and how stupid can you be as government… it just gives criminals the opportunity to see very easily WHO has money and WHO you should try to kidnap, extort or threaten. Of course the criminals don’t have records and will never be “transparent” to the government.
Also we want to warn other Mexican friends or people who live in Mexico to not use facebook or other social websites too much. It seems that criminals can also easily get information from these kind of media. From now on we will not be putting any personal information for “only friends” on Facebook. Also if you are ever being attacked by phone by these cowards, the best advice is to just hang up the phone. Let me also be clear that we are not afraid, but very very very angry! Stealing information about my family WITH THE HELP OF THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT makes us vulnerable.

So, thank you very much Mr. President Felipe Calderon.