I mean the war on water and collateral damage to other sundry liquids...?

Leaving MEX T1 last weekend I was relieved (very apologetically) of my bottle of water by the security guy at the xray machine. He took the time to explain to me that things had changed recently and in spite of my mentioning that while I knew the estadounidenses were out of their minds on this topic, and I believed the Mexicans knew better, he apologetically but firmly indicated that the water had to go. bah.

I've been through T2 with water before, not T1, so my question: has something changed recently? I see that some US airlines fly out of T1, so is it because of their contaminating the rest of the terminal that this is happening?

FWIW, I use Kayak a lot to search for connections out of here, and I asked them to provide an option to remove US airlines from their results... I mean, it's completely beyond the pale to include airlines in search results that require a visa for merely transiting an airport, with interrogation, strip searching and irradiation thrown in as free extras.

People north of the border really need to do something otherwise you will redefine the word "pariah" for posterity

Reading this thread makes me wonder: What is to prevent someone from putting a huge bomb in the trunk of their car, abandoning the car at a border point, and then exploding it when far enough away? Is it just some fixation on exploding planes?

Or for that matter taking a backpack-sized device and setting it off in the line for the airport security checkpoint?

It might actually be a shortage of folks with bombs. Plenty of targets. Nothin' happening. I'm sure DHS just KNOWS it's the lull before the storm.

About 18 months ago flying out of PVR on a UA US-bound flight we bought a bottle of water after security at a little shop close to the gate. The officials confiscated it as we boarded, despite our explaining that it was required as a result of some medication.

Anyone considered filling up a Gator Aid bottle with a urine sample?

Nah. People are too nice here. My transit of the checkpoint was entirely undramatic, not like the arm-waving, bellowing, hi-fiving "yoh! hoh! cleah! code blue! opt ooout!!" you get up north... kind of like the oompah loompahs in Willy Wonka but the rivers of brown stuff in the airports up north aren't chocolate anymore

I can't remember if my security clerk finished with "para servirle se�or" but it's entirely possible. Politeness and courtesy go a long way here. And no planes have gone down here recently either.

If you can't get a grip on your gun'mint up there I want to see all US airlines quarantined. Your passengers can board from the tarmac, strip-searched, traumatised, and waterless, with armoured cars and snipers watching over them. It may not be what you want, but it's what you asked for. We (the rest of the world) would like to enjoy our water in peace.