Mexico Mexico - Shawn Ramta, 34, Canadian, Mexico City, 31 Aug 2016

[AzPistonsGirl]

Searching but seeing nothing new. Please be safe...

 

[DakotaMayi]

Searching but seeing nothing new. Please be safe...

Absolutely.​ :candle:

 

[dotr]

Cannot seem to find any updates for Shawn, however this recent news concerns another Canadian who is missing in Mexico.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/01/10/22696339.html

Jan 11, 2017

If the "bad guys" did get him, missing Albertan Peter Driedger has plenty of company, and tragically little chance of ever being found, alive or otherwise.

Driedger was last seen doing what any Taber-raised farm kid might do on a Sunday morning, having finished the dawn chores on his parents farm, where the 28-year-old grain manager was staying as he helped his folks tend their land.

After that, Driedger went off to the local church, a regular habit for the clean-living, Mennonite-raised young man, who never drank or smoked, and whose only regular habit was making friends with pretty much everyone he met.

That was more than three weeks ago, and there's been no trace of Driedger since.

It would be a worrisome situation anywhere, but it's positively grim when you consider the farm is just outside Cuauhtémoc, Mexico, a small city 300-km south of Texas that Amnesty International has condemned as having the highest rate of disappearance in the country.

"So far, they've found the vehicle he was in, but they can't find him," says John Driedger, Peter's brother.

 

[kmclaren]

Cannot seem to find any updates for Shawn, however this recent news concerns another Canadian who is missing in Mexico.
http://cnews.canoe.com/CNEWS/Canada/2017/01/10/22696339.html

There's a thread for Peter:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...eter-Driedger-28-Canadian-Cuauhtemoc-Dec-2016

 

[dotr]

Bumping for Shawn Ramta..
http://www.lapoliticaeslapolitica.com/2016/10/the-mysterious-disappearance-of.html

Aside from the abrupt termination of contact with his wife after August 31, Ms. Sareeta feels it is also unusual that her brother would be out of contact with his grandfather, the well-known Punjabi folk singer Hazara Singh Ramta, who is now in his early 90s.



“Shawn is obsessed with his grandfather,” says Ms. Bassuta. “He’s never gone more than a few days without calling him.”

hour long documentary film on legendary poet and singer S.Hazara Singh Ramta. The film will be released in Toronto in January of 2013. Here are some excerpts from the film

[video=youtube;uoGaXse8k10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoGaXse8k10[/video]

 

[dotr]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/how-safe-is-mexico-playa-del-carmen-shooting-1.3939706

[h=1]Is Mexico getting more dangerous for Canadian tourists?[/h]
[h=3]Drug cartels and violent crime are rampant, but there are 'bubbles' of safety, expert says[/h] By Nicole Ireland, CBC News Posted: Jan 17, 2017

The country tends to have "bubbles," he said, which are "safe" and "have lower homicide rates than many cities in Canada and especially the United States." Those places include Playa de Carmen and nearby Cancun, he said, as well as Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's west coast.

"You have these places — the [Mexican] government has [a] vested interest in keeping them safe," McKay said, "so it spends a lot of money in security forces to make sure tourists can fly in, spend their money and fly out."
But the key to maximizing safety, he said, is to stay within the resorts.
The danger for tourists in Mexico is "being in the wrong place in the wrong time — because if you stay within these bubbles, your chances of encountering a violent or unpleasant incident are the same or less than if you're at home, for the most part."

 

[tarabull]

Not a peep, not a bleep, nada, nothing...since 2016

It will soon be two years missing.

Where is Shawn???

 

[tarabull]

Apologizing in advance but thinking further about Shawn...

Where was BM end of August 2016???

:thinking:

ETA: Reviewing the thread got me wondering, considering Shawn is from the GTA FWIW -- Snipped from the link in the 2nd post of this thread...
... He's a tall, buff Indian guy.

 

[tarabull]

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/shawn-ramta-99765247

http://www.empirecustoms.ca/

 

[dotr]

Apologizing in advance but thinking further about Shawn...

Where was BM end of August 2016???

:thinking:

ETA: Reviewing the thread got me wondering, considering Shawn is from the GTA FWIW -- Snipped from the link in the 2nd post of this thread...
... He's a tall, buff Indian guy.

Have to admit the thought went through my mind too!
Iirc Shawn was last seen at a nightclub..

 

[tarabull]

Have to admit the thought went through my mind too!
Iirc Shawn was last seen at a nightclub..

Yep a karaoke bar!!!!!

 

[dotr]

Yep a karaoke bar!!!!!

Mexico is offering few leads for the family of missing Brampton man Shawn Ramta | The Star
"Using records from his credit card, Bassuta went back to the restaurants, gym, grocery store and café her brother had visited in Polanco, the upscale neighbourhood where he was staying that is usually considered safe.

“Nobody had seen him except the servers in a karaoke bar, La Chismosa. They said he’d been in there on his own, and was in good spirits,” Bassuta said."

 

[dotr]

Cannot find an update, noting another disappearance in Mexico after possibly visiting a bar..
Mexico - Mexico - Francisco Aguilar, 48, US citizen, firefighter, condo ransacked, Rosarito, 20 Aug 2020

 

[MistyWaters]

Just a wild theory connected to SR having rented a airbnb - I wonder if addresses of airbnb listings in third world/developing countries have become a magnet for young thugs who target innocent foreigners. I don’t know that anyone has ever collected statistics regarding Canadians who have went missing or been murdered, attacked or robbed while staying in airbnb’s but I’d bet it’s greater compared to reputable hotels/resorts.

This is another example that comes to mind -
Calgary man shot, paralyzed while on vacation in Barbados during attempted armed robbery