Mexico safer than the U.S.The news reeks of trouble south of the border: Two Americans shot dead in Matamoros this month, and three women still missing after they crossed the Anzalduas Bridge south of McAllen/ Mission last month, Feb. 27, headed to a city approximately three hours south, Montemorelos, to sell clothes at a flea market.Clearly, the U.S. State Department is right when it has this Do-Not-Travel warning in place to Americans thinking of heading south of the border into the Mexican state of Tamaulipas: “Organized crime activity — including shootings, murders, armed robberies, carjackings, kidnappings, forced disappearances, extortion, and ...