Mexico Tourism Promoter Running Threatening Ads in Arizona Newspaper? Updated
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
It seems that “Visit Mexico” bought an ad that ran in yesterday’s Arizona Republic (how long it’s been running and if it’s in there today, I’m not sure).
I got the heads-up about it after seeing this Twitter post from Sheriff Joe Arpaio:

So I clicked on the link and checked out the ad.
If you live in Arizona (or anywhere else in the US for that matter), does this make you want to visit Sonora, “Arizona’s neighbor”?

The ad certainly doesn’t imply that somebody in Mexico is on the lookout for you so they can bring over the welcome wagon, does it?
Update: “Visit Mexico” might be a little more welcoming to Belinda Carlisle — and they can have her.
**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Update (MM): Via commenter beachmom:
I just called and spoke to a man from the Mexican tourism board in Sonora.
Apparently, the Arizona Republic cut off half the ad. It was supposed to say …looking for people from Arizona who want to have fun” There are also supposed to be families having fun reflected in the glasses. The A. Republic is supposed to print corrections today and tomorrow.
By the way, they aren’t mad about Arizona’s law. They want the drugs and illegals to stop too. He said the drug and illegals trade are hurting them badly.
I suggested they call Fox News and ask to come on to talk about it. He wrote it down and said he is going to tell his boss. We’ll see.
The state of Sonora has actually been pretty supportive of the efforts to stop illegals and drugs. Their governor has a history of going against the rest of Mexico.
We’ll see, as I said. Maybe he was telling me the truth. He seemed upset and he loves the US. He went to school in VT.
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I would not ‘visit’ mexico again ever, period! I can not for the life of me understand why spring breakers go there and get kidnapped and murdered after being warned. Even if we take a cruise, I will not get off the ship in a mexico port.
L
I agree with you. I’ve already been in a third world hellhole where people shoot at you – Vietnam. Don’t need no more Mexico.
txvet2,
Hubby was in Vietnam also and shot at on the river boats. Thank you for your service!
L
Looks pretty darn threatening to me…agree letget/txvet2 I haven’ set foot in there since 1970 when a high school friend of mine was murdered.
I live in AZ less than 20 miles from the border and have for most of my adult life.
The ad,I’d be willing to bet was just the victim of bad design and bad timing.
I believe that Mexico is simply trying to recruit the chicago champion girls high school team. After all, the Chicago liberal that banned their trip to Arizona and should be more than happy to send the kids to the safety of Mexico.
Not very reassuring, Opus….
Doug, as we used to say in GERMANY, machts nichts!!! Living in AZ, maybe a hand full of people would still visit our neighbor to the south… Been that way for a while now…
LOL!!!! Well let’s see ….who needs who more? Mexico and American Tourist dollars…or Americans and Mexican vacation destinations?? Hmmm. Tough one.
Ive been to Cancun 5 times…last in 2008, before police captains were being murdered there. Though Cancun was always beautiful, and tourists were treated like royalty, that is the last cent I spend in Mexico. Plenty of other places to go.
Come to Honolulu for your vacation. We beat you up and rob you, sometimes leaving you in a coma. But we usually don’t kill anyone.
Bad guys here (and the cops) count on visitors not being able to come back to Hawaii to testify against the perps. If you have to save money for years to spend 5 days here, you really can’t afford to come back and spend weeks in a hotel waiting for the defense to stop all delaying tactics. All the defense attorneys here demand that their client face their accuser in person, as is their right. Written affadavits just don’t cut it.
I will never knowingly spend 1 cent for a mexican product nor would I visit that S***h***. I know lots of people that visit Rockey Point and other places. I always ask them why? Why reward a country for bad behavior?
Must be. Otherwise I can’t figure out what this is trying to say. First glance, it looks like a warning to Arizonans who are in Mexico illegally. Why else would military personel be looking for them with field glasses? Moreover, why would Arizonans be in Mexico illegally, except maybe to buy drugs or evade the law? If the intent was to intimidate Arizonans in response to the new law, it makes no sense. Repulsing potential tourism would seriously hurt businesses and jobs at the destinations – more than helping illegals in Arizona. Can’t get my head around it.
Re visiting Mex, I would not hesitate to visit Alcapulco or Cancuun again. I had a blast and the Myan ruins and other sites are fascinating – but moreover the people there were kind, caring, and genuinely concerned with our comfort, wellbeing and safety. Like any developing country there are places you don’t go, times not to travel and precautions to observe. Kids on spring break are not noted for their caution and common sense. The resort and tour people are good folks trying to make a living in a country where it is hard to do so. I wouldn’t penalize them for the stupidity of the government or drug people.
I would. Until the Mexicans get their government under control it will continue to be controlled by the approximately 36 families that control pretty much everything there. That being said we need to clean our own house and get rid of the pretender in chief who at last count has used 7 to 10 different social security numbers.
As much as illegal immigration irks the hell out of me, I agree with Opus. Just looks like an add for visiting Mexico.
Keep looking jefe-I will not be there. I do not care what the tourism board-American or Mexican-is trying to say or even what anyone else is trying to say.
Mexico is in a melt down and even the police can not protect themselves. We have enough gangs on this side of the border, I do not need to go looking for more. er: I do make an exception for Cabo San Lucus-sorry. But we fly in–have a home on a 99 year lease and have a boat there. So FAR Cabo is safer than most.
ArizonaNeanderthal,
Be sure to have your ‘papers’ when you go. calderon said they check them in mexico! Good for mexico, bad for America.
L
The man is getting bold-does he fear his time is short? Our Army is to be used to promote democratic values around the world. We don’t have enough military cemeteries on foreign soil?
Those of you whose education did not include the classics read up on the Peloponnesian Wars. Athens decided to use her military might to force all Greece to adopt her style of democratic government. All of Greece-mostly Sparta-pulled down the walls of Athens.
President Hussein O is getting bold.
Unfortunately AN for democrats and liberals (fascists) but I repeat myself, history begins tomorrow.
Here’s a suggestion. Instead of Mexico, try Colombia, which has apparently made great strides in getting its internal problems under control. Like Mexico, Colombia has beach resorts, historic cities and mountain scenery, and every year it even has a carnival that rivals Rio’s, and Colombians appear genuinely grateful to us for assisting them break the drug gangs and insurgencies that were hazardous to their health.
I just called and spoke to a man from the Mexican tourism board in Sonora.
Apparently, the Arizona Republic cut off half the ad. It was supposed to say …looking for people from Arizona who want to have fun” There are also supposed to be families having fun reflected in the glasses. The A. Republic is supposed to print corrections today and tomorrow.
By the way, they aren’t mad about Arizona’s law. They want the drugs and illegals to stop too. He said the drug and illegals trade are hurting them badly.
I suggested they call Fox News and ask to come on to talk about it. He wrote it down and said he is going to tell his boss. We’ll see.
The state of Sonora has actually been pretty supportive of the efforts to stop illegals and drugs. Their governor has a history of going against the rest of Mexico.
We’ll see, as I said. Maybe he was telling me the truth. He seemed upset and he loves the US. He went to school in VT.
You’re right, with the controlling families augmented by the drug lords – Mexico is a feudal society on steroids. Poverty level now is 47%, inflation and unemployment out of control and GDP down 15%. It’s sliding from a developing country back to a 3rd world country.
But the tourism folks taking care of my visit are genuine, honest hardworking people doing everything in their power to make their country a better place – and they generate jobs. If you put these folks out of work to protest their government – WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY WILL GO? Do as you see fit, but boycots more often than not are ineffective and ultimately injure unintended people.
Mystery solved. Thanks for the effort and info Beachmom. You are awesome!
This slip up could parlay into a bonanza of free press for them.
beachmom,
Did you suggest that someone from the mexican tourism board contact sheriff Joe? This man has gone by the books handed down by the feds from the get go and would love to get this solved I would imagine.
L
Luckily we haven’t had the drug violence in our area. We have an incredibly huge number of retirees that spend the winter here and the towns just across the border rely heavily on their business. However….
Just out of curiosity how many people heard of the bomb scare at the San Luis port of entry shortly after the attempted Time Square bombing?
Thankfully it was probably just a crank phoning in a threat, but it closed the entry point for hours.
Two things surprised and disturbed me about the incident. Considering the atmosphere at the time the incident didn’t make more than the local news. Second, the local Customs/Border agents didn’t have a bomb sniffing dog on site. They had to call in the Marines from a local Marine corp air station to bring theirs.
I did not suggest they call Sheriff Joe.
The Ariz. Republic was supposed to print corrections today and tomorrow so he’ll see it I imagine.
Was it suspected explosives entering the US? If it was a hoax, it wouldn’t really be newsworthy. Must be dozens of bomb scares around the country daily.
They got a phone call telling them to check a specific area of the border station. No explosives were found.
I agree that there are probably several phony bomb threats phoned in to places around the country, but how many to border entry points?
Real threat or not, considering what had just happened in New York I would have expected it to draw more attention.
The Arizona Repulsive? No one reads that rag. They keep making it smaller to the point they are going to start printing it on a postage stamp sized piece of paper. The editors at the repulsive have not figured out Arizona is a mostly conservative state but they continue to drink the liberal kool aid.
Ahhhh! My husband asked me if I knew whether the AR was a liberal rag or not.
That explains a lot.
Anyone that goes to Mexico is taking their life in their hands. Not only do they kidnap Americans all the time they also have Banditos that rob and kill you on the spot.
That is why there is a state department warning for tourists that most people are ignoring.
I stopped traveling to Mexico in the late 1970′s after my father spent the day in a Mexican jail after being hit by a drunk Mexican driving a pickup.
Never again and we were lucky to get out alive.
If the guard at the jail had not been so lax(he fell asleep), my father would have been ransomed by the Mexican police.
Cut your own economic throat. He thinksthat will make AZ more likely to see their point of view? It confirms what they need to do.
My local women’s club used to charter a bus to visit Nuevo Laredo in November. The last time we went down, the local merchants posted a huge sign “Welcome ‘our town’s name” Women’s Club”. It freaked us out, especially when on the way out of town there were camo’d AK-47 bearing “guards” were on every corner. It’s been 4 years since our last trip. Never again!
My mother was mugged in Hawaii about 15 years ago. Her purse was stolen and she was knocked to the ground. She was in her 70′s at the time. They caught the perp, and the State of Hawaii paid for my Mom to come back and testify. All expenses. Things must have changed in 15 years.
I have never had an interest in visiting Mexico, which keeps getting re-enforced every time I hear press 1 for english or see signs in spanish.
Gov. Brewer might as well send the National Guard to the border because the petty tyrant we have for a President is without doubt doing everything he can to achieve the opposite she’s asking for.
Did anyone click the link to the “visit Sonora” site? It shows a map of the five regions of the state, with the U.S. border states above… California, Arizona, and Nuevo Mexico…
Can you say “Aztlan”? Of course you can!
off topic: yet more reasons to yank the tax exempt status of many churches around the country…video down the page a bit..
warning stomach turning video.
http://www.vaticanassassins.org/?p=6086
Ad or not I’m not going to Mexico. Have not for years and years. Last trip we were on the beach at night, camping, federale came up to “check on us” and as we looked around we could see lots of eyes glowing in the light from the fire whose owners bodies were just in the dark. Federale wanted to make sure we had paid our camping “fees”….
We paid him what he said they were but did not sleep at all until in car on way back to AZ.
Last trip ever to Mexico.
The GoGos? Aren’t they has-beens?
I don’t need to go to Mexio. It has come to me! If I want to experience Mexican culture I can go to any “Pollo Loco” in Northern Virginia.
And Maryland is about to formally rename itself as “Estates de Maria del Norte” but they can’t find anyone to translate the legislation into English…
Frankly, I am surprised there is anyone left in Mexico to run ads? I thought they were all north of the Rio Grande.
I’m already living in Mexico. I’ve been saying for years that I want to leave Texas and go back to America as soon as it is financially feasible (Sell the house, find new job, etc).
After Arizona pushes the Citizens of Mexico back across the border, I’ll be glad to consider it as a worthy location.
Arizona Neanderthal:
Just as in this particular issue, the ‘protest’ on a Bank homeowner’s lawn next door to Nina Easton by SEIU thugs and the Democrat ‘Sieg Heil’ to a foreign Mexican President, the left is getting ready for something…the question is, what will be the incident that sparks ‘All Hell Breaking Loose’?
Who cares? Don’t visit Mexico. Why is everyone so friggin obsessed with this crap?
I think what it’ll take to scare true Americans into taking this issue of non-assimilating illegal invaders seriously is a near _exact_ count of how many are here and how they’re influencing one’s local way of life and culture, because to me, the way we’re going, the majority are only going to wake and push back after the camel’s long in the tent. Good luck MM!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
We have invited El Presidente Toto Calderon to go fishing in the Sea of Cortez.
Humboldt Squid
Tell Sheriff Joe he needs to worry more about the neo-Nazi associations instead of what an ad is about. After reading a little about the connections to these groups and certain politicians(and a Sheriff) in Arizona…I think I kinda get what that ad means now.
Here is one of many stories:
Arizona immigration law rally loses group due to neo-Nazi links
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2010/05/22/20100522arizona-immigration-law-rally-neo-nazis.html#ixzz0oi5aRc3i
My boycott of Mexico dates back to the 2005 World Cup soccer game in Mexico;
the Mexicans booed our National Anthem and shouted “Osama, Osama” while the American team played.
Also, the 2007 incident when Miss USA was booed by the Mexico City audience at the Miss Universe Pageant when Miss America tripped fell on the stage.
Why would any American visit Mexico; then or now???
Thank You for the reminder. I had completely forgotten about those 2 incidents.
Yeah, I’m sure that ad was unintentional. Some of you people need to wake up. The reason illegal immigration is out of control is many Mexicans have no concept of law and order. Allowing them to ignore our laws teaches the wrong lesson and unchecked, will result in areas of our country becoming just as corrupt and lawless as Mexico. Parts of LA already are.
Moonshot, your name says it all. Please return to your planet and stay there.
if the urge to visit Mexico becomes irresistible, i get in the car and drive to Boyle Heights, Van Nuys, North Hollywood, Pico Rivera, El Monte, or, these days, Compton and the rest of South Central.
at least the cops are likely not on the take and the water is usually safe to drink. i wouldn’t go to Mexico on a bet, let alone on a vacation.
moonshot, please take one.
OT – a Republican, Charles Djou is the new Congressman from the district where Obama used to snort coke and smoke dope. Too harsh? The second place finisher is the woman even other Democrats thought went too far in a deceptive ad and who had been forced to take one of her ads off the air. They run again in November. She could win then, people in Hawaii like Mommie telling them what to do on the plantation…
…and here you are.
Last year I sold my condo in Ajijic Mexico and bought one one the beach in Panama City Beach Fl. The most beautiful sand in the world, Southwest airlines flies there, and my conscience is clear about supporting America instead of Mexico. The downside is it’s more expensive, and maid service is out of the equation, but all in all, this place is gorgeous with activities for all ages. Great place to vacation Except during spring break (March) when it is pretty loud and rowdy.
If you want a laugh, google Ray Stevens immigration song. Too funny.
I watched the Marquez/Vasquez fight last night, in the first fight, one of the Fighters came out wearing a T-shirt with SB 1070 and a line through it.
Go figure, a Mexican Fighter, Fighting on Showtime in the Staples Center in L.A. I am disappointed in Showtime for allowing him to wear that.
The Democrats constantly whine about not getting support from Republicans on comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty), how about some support from Democrats for the rule of law, an issue where the left has willfully aborted the will of the people by usurping our laws.
Yeah and how much you want to bet the corrections will be wedged somewhere in the middle of the paper where no one sees it.
It is starting to sound more like the AR was trying to push their own agenda in this case.
Nope, ain’t buyin’ it. Do ads normally have the website address right under the photo? Aren’t they usually at the complete bottom of the ad? http://www.gotosonora is right under the pic, along with, the logo for their tourism dept. at what would be the bottom right corner..
Not sure how many folks out there know but the Mexican consulate is easy to find here in Phoenix. Easily accessible, downtown, marked, easy to find.
Yet we backwards redneck bigots Arizonans treat it with respect. Not ONE demonstration outside that office complex.
Isn’t that amazing for us hatefilled nazi white folks here in AZ!
I guess we’re just too stupid or too busy looking for Mexicans in our bushes to have thought about a demonstration.
Imagine.
I remember that as well. Why do we want to allow people who don’t like us to ignore our laws and inundate our country?
“our country?”
You forget, they think it is THEIR country. We’re the invaders who are here illegally.
You could cede all of the territory back to Mexico it claims and within months the whole danged thing would look like Tijuana. Those areas, where they’ve been hiding in the shadows
are pretty much no-go zones now.
Now they have Mexican Pirates on Falcon Lake near Zapata, Texas.
From the article:
“According to a report by KENS-TV in San Antonio, authorities have confirmed three boats have been looted so far, some by a deadly Mexican drug cartel whose buccaneers brandish machine guns instead of swords and canons”
Read the article it also includes the current statistics on OTM’s:
Based on U.S. Border Patrol statistics, there were 30,147 OTMs apprehended in fiscal year 2003; 44,614 in fiscal year 2004; 165,178 in fiscal year 2005; and 108,025 in fiscal year 2006. Most were caught along the U.S. Southwest border
Most of us are too busy working so we can pay our taxes which supports those with nothing to do but complain, protest and cash their welfare checks.
What did Mexico do with all those territories before the gringos “stole” them? Oh, I know, basically nothing unless you want to include some wealthy Spanish legacy ranchers and Mexican raiders who killed native american tribes or kidnapped them for slave work in their mines. Spain was the colonizing country anyway. Mexico was just a clueless beneficiary of Spain’s collapse. Sorry Atzlanistas. No harm no foul.
Maybe Sonora should secede. They wouldn’t be the first Mexican State to do so.
But then again us norteamericanos shouldn’t interefere in their affairs.
I’m sorry, I don’t buy it. The guy in the ad is wearing military gear. camos and a helmet. their explanation makes no sense given the military garb.