4 people shot by the the military was the biggest rumor that I actually believed because some upper echelon government people confirmed it. In actuality, there were two sets of gunfire, both the result of drivers not stopping when asked to stop by military forces carrying machine guns. One stupid young man was shot, but not killed.
Then there are the famous Mexican kidnappings for cash. The last one to be publicized is now rumored to have been a drug vendetta, and the one before that, a bad debt collection. The latest one to cross my sights involved a millon pesos and the father of a kid who supposedly directs some of the nasties in Catemaco. Now that makes absolutely no sense.
Today supposedly a taxi driver was killed in a nearby community. That turned out to be a man on man violation, which is as close to death as you can get in Macho Mexico, without dying.
Meanwhile I happily hop into my topless yellow buggy and cruise the streets of beautiful down and uptown Catemaco literally 24 hours a day and aside from gathering hundreds of smiles and a few dirty looks,
I feel as safe as Alice in Wonderland.
