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I travelled with my family to Mexico back in the summer of 2009.   We hadn’t been and airline tickets  Puerto Villarta - hot, hot, hot to Puerto Vallarta were less than $500 each.   The summer can be hot with temperatures reach over 40°C with levels of humidity over 90% but we weren’t going to stay on the coast.   Our plan was to rent a car and drive up to Tequila on the high, inner plateau where temperatures would be more moderate for this time of the year.   From there we would move down the plateau to Guadalajara onto Mexico City and down to Oaxaca on the southern end of the country.   For some reason, we were oblivious to the scale of the drug war being waged between rival cartels and between the police and the cartels.   We certainly had no idea of the animosity felt by the people toward the police.   As far as I can remember, the Government of Canada hadn’t even placed warnings on its website regarding travel to Mexico.   How quickly we learned.   Taxco, Mexico - Rel