Or you run the risk of being kidnapped. Here’s the story of a couple who visited friends in Mexico and their husbands were kidnapped and killed. And here’s a similar story of a family driving at night one mile from the border:BTW, an excellent book to get the back story on the drug trade in Mexico is Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town. Even though it focuses on meth addition in small town America, it also examines why Mexico became the number one source for meth in America.