Comments on: How my buddy was kidnapped and pistol-whipped for 22 days…and other Mexican kidnapping stories

By: MARCO

MARCO — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:57:01 +0000

Watch it! Ya andan tras la comunidad del Telemarketing en Monterrey…

By: Peter Piper

Peter Piper — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:22:16 +0000

By the way, Pancho, if you’re reading this, I just wanted to say that was an excellent piece of journalism there. Very dryly written. Funny, sobering, and informative, all at the same time. You definitely have a knack for this.

By: Peter Piper

Peter Piper — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:15:54 +0000

WOW! What the hell is up with that last guy who posted a comment? He addresses his comments directly to the kidnappers? Does he actually believe this is some kind of forum where the kidnappers hang out and he’s able to speak directly to the kidnappers here?? As if kidnappers hang out in online forums on their days off.

Weird.

By: flot

flot — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:14:28 +0000

Wow, amazing that you think it dehumanizes your victims to torture them. The truth is it dehumanizes you sadistic low lifes 4 fold! the innocent lives you torure are better people than you. It doesn’t matter if they cry for mercy or you make them eat their own dick while fucking their wife, they are still better than you and you know it! You get off torturing them but it doesn’t sustain you as you know that you are a sack of shit for what you have become. I only wish American justice could allow toruture speciffically as a capital punishment for those who torture! it’s what you deserve and its the only justice. A slow running asphault roller slowly crushing all the bones in your coward cartel ass you dumb faggot! It won’t be long and Scandanavian/Americans will go vigillante style on your asses and drag you all behind our trucks you pussified sacks of shit!

By: NZ

NZ — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:11:12 +0000

From New Zealand and found this story sad and interesting. Like a train wreck, I couldn’t take my eyes away.

We only get a small glimpse of drug related violence. Christ, I guess its only a matter of time though.

By: Sierra

Sierra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:11:55 +0000

Why the animosity towards President Calderon?

By: Andie

Andie — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:29:35 +0000

I never knew it was so commonplace, but I am glad I learned something today. Good read.

By: mario

mario — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:38:28 +0000

wow! great story and sad

By: Seya

Seya — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:37:03 +0000

Spent two weeks in Laredo about 5 years ago doing Ketamine and sleeping in motels. I look back now and wonder what the hell was I thinking. Young and stupid..not realizing the danger I was in. I love your stories.

By: Skööby Döö

Skööby Döö — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:34:02 +0000

Man, there sure are a lot of fucking Swedes here. There goes the neighborhood.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:55:24 +0000

I guess we just aren’t as civilized as scandinavians until we get out very own school shooting!

Living in the same city as the author, I got to see someone getting picked up. It was quick, in broad daylight and nobody really “noticed”.

By: fajensen

fajensen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:19:23 +0000

@Scandinavian dude:

Disgusting. You sure are a bunch of monkeys down there. We don’t have apeman stuff like that here in the Scandinavian countries

Not until recently anyway we did not!

Thanks to generous welfare programmes we are now blessed with places like Rinkeby (Stockholm), Rosengården (Malmø) and Vesterbro (Copenhagen) to make us feel much more 3rd-world’ish.

By: mx?

mx? — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 05:26:09 +0000

rivotril are pills, not as good as rohypnol though.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:44:26 +0000

What’re “rivos”? Drinks?

By: Pancho

Pancho — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:35:30 +0000

Keep in mind this isn’t representative of ALL Mexico. Monterrey is an enormous metropolitan area, about a quarter the size of DF. It’s also NEAR the border, and the drug routes heat up near the US borders. The narcos don’t fuck people up EVERYWHERE. My friends in Mexico range from dirt poor to low middle class and the whole drug war thing doesn’t concern them an awful lot (Queretaro), although they do have RANDOM violent events to cheer them up, occasionally.

By: mx?

mx? — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:45:52 +0000

and scandinavian dude: you treat your own kids like sex slaves.

I rest my case

By: Pedro

Pedro — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:45:15 +0000

Brilliant writing. Loved your 1st article and this was just as good. Keep it up with more on the drug wars and their fallout. In live in Australia and this stuff is like reading about another planet.

By: mx?

mx? — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:43:55 +0000

and some goverment officials are colluded too, but for the most part they are happy to let the narcos to their bizness while they skim off the top of city projects or make up stupid “bonuses” for themselves.

Im serious, you see it all the time on the news, how legislators decide to pass law which increase the pay and benefits of their profession, fuck Id like a job where I decide when to raise my pay and give myself luxury cars and SUVs, only for official use of course.

By: mx?

mx? — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:37:55 +0000

exactly zip…just what I wanted to get through
you get kidnapped..shits thats life, move on

By: Baked Dr. Luny

Baked Dr. Luny — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:11:10 +0000

Hey Scandinavian dude, did you ever hear of the vikings? People are the same everywhere, some are just lucky enough to be in a situation where they don’t have to deal with much violence.

@Mario: If they got rid of the police and declared martial law it would be the army that gets corrupted, it already is to some extent. Would you rather have a police force in collusion with the cartels or an army in their pocket?