Mucha seguridad, pocos fantaticos

While throngs of cheering crowds greeted President Barack Obama from Germany to Turkey, his visit to Mexico looked a little different.

Instead of the president being crowded by fans like a rock star, he was surrounded by police and soldiers — thousands of them.

Mexican army troops even guarded his hotel with machine gun turrets pointing rather menacingly at the sidewalk.

Furthermore, there were sharp shooters positioned on the rooftops near where he was scheduled to have dinner.

All of this was in addition to the usual entourage of secret service men bustling around speaking hurriedly into their microphones.

Mexico has had a rough time with drug violence in the last year, but is it really that dangerous? I guess the Mexican government was taking no chances.

http://www.globalpost.com/notebook/mexico/090416/mucha-seguridad-pocos-fantaticos