Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry

Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by mattmanser on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:13PM (#18102542)

In a thread about Uber drivers in Brazil scamming, there are people talking about how it's a death sentence to walk into the wrong favela.

Are they wrong? That's not a normal, functioning, society, regardless of GDP.

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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by passn on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:41PM (#18102686)

"A death sentence" is exaggerating but just as in any city of 20m people in the developing world there will be some very dangerous areas.

Just because an enormous city has some dangerous areas does not mean it is not a "normal, functioning, society". It also doesn't mean it should be equated to the middle east, assumed to be the same as the other 32 countries on the continent.

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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by vermontdevil on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:38PM (#18102995)

And Rio just had the Summer Olympics.

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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by Larrikin on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:56PM (#18102763)

This is also true in places in the US

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Re:Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry by empath75 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @05:16PM (#18102872)

Have you been to Baltimore or Detroit?

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