What is your perception of Mexico?
A beautiful country with some bad areas just like the USA
If you were to plan a vacation would Mexico be on your list of potential destinations?
Yes, we're thinking about going to the Riviera Maya area for our honeymoon sometime in the next few months into early-mid next year.
Would you feel safe in Mexico?
Where I go, yes. I've been to Cozumel numerous times and felt completely safe there. I've also done tours on the mainland and felt safe. Costa Maya was a great place to get a chair, drink beer and eat chips & salsa
What is the biggest plus and biggest minus that Mexico offers you as a tourist destination?
Biggest plus - Short flights, value, weather, history, cheap fishing 
Biggest minus - the northern borders and the drug war going on and the pushy "must buy" this and that attitude.