Gill might be right about most cavers not having much the Zetas would want when they are looking for robbery victims; but according to Geary Schindel's message April 6, the Zetas are now looking for Americans they can publicly torture and kill as a show of defiance. You don't have to have much in the way of possessions to be vulnerable to torture and death.

Rod

-----Original Message-----
From: flea56
Sent: Apr 6, 2010 3:02 PM
To: Gill Edigar
Cc: Cavers Texas
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Mexican Travel

The advice Gil gives comes from the man who was shot rafting. Lightning may not strike twice though.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
 
I was in the border town of Reynosa for 19 hours yesterday.   

I was down there on Thursday and was told that both the old Reynosa bridge and the Pharr bridge were closed for a few hours on Tuesday or Wednesday while the street department cleaned up some blood and brass following a little dispute. It didn't happen at the bridges but in a colonia that lies sorta in between the two, so they didn't want people turistaing around in the area 'til the fracas settled down.  

At any rate, we are all small fish in a big ocean. Most of us don't have anything the Zetas want--they have more money, more drugs, more cars & pickups, and more big guns than all cavers put together. There's always a chance that we could encounter some of them by accident--just like getting struck by lightening, run over by a semi, or becoming voluntarily victims of errant fear mongers. You're probably in no more danger crossing the Pharr bridge than watching the news on Fox cable.
--Ediger

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