Please read and share the following information and website with everyone you know. The goal is to save lives by sharing factual information.Brent Midlock--Memorial


A coalition of victims' families has formed with the purpose of saving lives. Lives can be saved by sharing facts and experiences of horrifying vacation tragedies. We believe it is the right, not privilege for all citizens' to be informed of facts and truths prior to planning any vacation outside the United States. Mexico diligently attempts to hide the alarming increases of tourist deaths and rather than resolving the growing problems they choose to entice tourists via promotions and price. Despite the aggressive "Beyond Your Expectations" the Mexican government and tourism industry truly does exceed the expectations of many travelers by the lack of safety, security and the inability to control crimes. When reading the family stories you can be the judge. Justice for the victims and/or families never prevails. Mexico has launched their most aggressive tourism promotion "Beyond Your Expectations" for 2008. Over the past few years the number of tourist deaths in the "well-known regions" continues to escalate at alarming numbers. In fact, Mexico Tourism accounted for 30% of all non-natural causes of American citizens' deaths in 2007. Sadly, Canadian citizens' deaths are comparable.

The hardship and pain of having an 6-year-old sibling killed on vacation by negligence is incomprehensible. The profound sadness and loss can never be verbalized. The dynamics of what was once a happy family has changed significantly.

We ask that you share this information with everyone you know--"Together We Can Make A Difference". Google Brent Midlock for detailed information regarding the multitude of family tragedies. What you will read will shock you!

gone4now, this is the third thread you have posted on the topic of tourist deaths in Mexico. While I appreciate your enthusiasm for the cause, I think we would all appreciate if we could have one linear discussion about this. Since one has already started here, I'm going to close this thread and repost this post in its entirety on the linked thread.

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