Mexicans Not Unsafe. They're Just Like a Pathetic Woman Obsessed With Weight

I bet you didn't know this, but as it turns out, Mexico City is much less violent than Washington, D.C. and, according to some statistics, the country as a whole is much safer than places like Venezuela, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

In fact, Mexico is so not violent that this is how the director of an independent organization we've never heard about explained it to the foreign press.

"In terms of security, we are like those women who aren't overweight but when they look in the mirror, they think they're fat," said Luis de la Barreda, director of the Citizens' Institute. "We are an unsafe country, but we think we are much more unsafe that we really are."

So next time you hear someone complaining about Mexico's drug war or how organized crime has taken over the country's politics, just tell them they are like a pathetic woman obsessed with weight.

Or, as my terrified-living-in-Mexico friend puts it: It must be the mirror...

Hat tip: Keith Dannemiller