I live in a mobile home park, trailer park if you will. I forget to lock my doors most nights and don’t have house keys. My chance of getting robbed and/or kidnapped hover around slim and none fat and no.
Is that a thing now, going south? Used to be you could drive through without being stopped or inspected in most cases. All of my visits in the last 30 years have been by plane.
It has been for at least twenty years when I started consulting it Mexico. Back in my college days in the 80s you just needed a State ID like a driver’s license.
I didn’t even need that the last time I crossed into TJ mid-90s.
Google says that the law changed in the late ‘00s for Canada and Mexico so that tracks
Yes, seems like you also need Mexican auto insurance if you are US citizen, and google says FMM (tourist card) and TIP vehicle permit if driving past border zone.
Getting into Mexico is fairly straightforward, IME, coming back, is (was) a real pain…especially is you are trying to hide something! (sir, please pull over to secondary search..)
ps edit to add I think Mrs Guthrie could have been easily taken to Mexico, but…I dunno, feel like she is still in the US
I had forgotten about some of those things. I had to drive from Santa Barbara to Mexicali. I rented a car in SB and the had to rent a different car in San Diego County in order to get the special insurance to drive in. I also had to go to a Mexican Consulate to get a FM3 (work visa).
My experience limited to 70s, just blow right through US side, slow a bit for Mexican guards, all done. Coming back was, (and is supposedly horrible now) a real nail biter. We were just surfing tourists, but…seeds n stems stuck under the seat? Real nail biter…
These goober kidnappers are apparently not as dumb as we think.
They got her out and away, sight unseen. They’ve kept her hidden, what 20 days? No suspect. No real clues. No sightings.
Yep.
Dumb like a fox.
I have no doubt in my mind she is unalived and her remains will be found in Mexico. If ever.
A terrible thing? Of course. I have great sympathy for the family.
I do worry the political ramifications.
Some border issue in this case is gonna blow up the right.
Why Mexico?
Yeah, my guess is that she’s dead, and her remains are within 200 miles of where she was grabbed, within the US.
I don’t see why they’d bother to take her remains to Mexico, unless she was alive and died while there.
We just don’t know anything though. I wonder if we ever will? You’d think these days they’d figure it out, but there’s a lot of vacant land in that area.
I was in the dentist’s office this morning and they had the Today Show on in the waiting room. After a break, they announced “The Today Show with Savannah Guthrie and (some guy).” And they showed various pics of Savannah, Al Roker, and a couple of others. When the live feed came on, was Hota Kotb was there with some guy, and I think the guy said, (paraphrased) “Hota is here. Savannah is with her family.” And among the upcoming stories, they said they were going to give updates on the Guthrie case.
I just thought it odd that they would not change the voice-over. Or is “Savannah Guthrie and whomever” such a part of the Today Show brand, or contractual with SG, that they feel a need/desire to keep saying it, even when she is not there for an extended period?
A very minor point.
It is really close to her home.
Nearest foreign country?
Going to Mexico is actually a pretty good plan, given how much it complicates US authorities’ ability to track and trace. 30 years ago getting someone into Mexico would have been trivial, but I haven’t driven across the border in years. There are, however, innumberable smuggling routes that in theory work both ways.
As has been already noted numerous times, you can’t just go to Mexico. It’s an international border with guards and you need a passport. I have done it dozens of times.
Balaklava comes from Crimean Tatar name meaning ‘Abode of Fish’.
It’s sad but that would be my guess also. A poorly hatched scheme by one or two people, kidnapped her and she died while in their possession. They dumped/disposed of the body and went silent before they ever had a chance to make any demands.
Smuggling a dead body across the Mexican border seems an absurdly dangerous plan, compared to just burying it in some unpopulated location. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, of course.
Since we’re all spit balling, I’ll say Cartels. Don’t they have actual tunnels?
Just sayin’