Posted on 03/09/2009 2:22:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Americans visiting violence-wracked Mexico this month for annual "spring break" vacations should be safe as long as they don't stray from tourist resorts, a Republican lawmaker from Texas said Monday.
Mexico's escalating drug feuds and mounting murders have worried some American students considering spending the customary spring exodus south of the border.
"Many places in Mexico are basically self-contained resort areas, where, frankly, you are not going to have a lot of interaction with people from the outside," Senator John Cornyn told Fox News.
"My guess is, (the resorts) are probably a safer bet than some of the other areas," he added.
As students prepare their annual spring break from studies, concerns have grown about the safety of popular Mexican getaways such as Cancun and Acapulco, which traditionally swarm with hedonistic students each March.
Senator Cornyn said he would warn prospective US tourists to be guided by US government advice on travel conditions.
The violence, which claimed the lives of 5,300 last year alone, "could be a real threat to stability in (Mexico), and that would have grave consequences for the United States," he added.
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People enjoy the beach in Cancun, state of Quintana Roo in August, 2007. Americans visiting violence-wracked Mexico this month for annual "spring break" vacations should be safe as long as they don't stray from tourist resorts, a Republican lawmaker from Texas said Monday. (AFP/File/Omar Torres)
I am keeping my Yankee Dollars at home.
If you’re going to Mexico, make sure you avoid the Mexicans. Ha ha, that reminds me of an old Mike Royko column.
Tourists dance in a discotheque in Cancun in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, March 2, 2009. Despite warnings about drug gang violence, U.S. college students are starting their annual "spring break" party on Mexican beaches, bringing dollars that will help cushion the economic slump in Mexico. With the battered peso making Mexico a cheap destination this year, the government is praying for a steady stream of visitors to its beach resorts and quaint colonial towns, despite the slumping global economy. Tourist visits to Mexico rose 6 percent last year to 22.6 million. Picture taken March 2, 2009. REUTERS/Stringer (MEXICO)
you MIGHT be. and you MIGHT NOT be.
Why not starve Mexico of tourist dollars so they would have the b*lls to keep going after these mafiosi?
No more---I think you'd have to be nuts to take the chance right now.
Why not suggest the Texas Gulf Coast there, John. Who elected you to the Senate? Beginning to sound like W, promoting Mexico when you could be promoting your own state.
looks like fun
bet nobody ends up raped, alcohol poisoning, or catching an STD either.
There far better destinations in the U.S. Why go to a foreign country that is awash in drug violence.
Any parent who lets their non-adult children go to Mexico for a big drinking spring break is crazy and won’t have my sympathy if they don’t come back.
When did it become acceptable to let your 19 year old go to a Third World country to get drunk and laid?
I suppose it is the same parents who buy a keg for their high schoolers.
that’s what billions of dollars of federal student aid buys us
Never been under water near Cozumel, have you?
That's ok, America's drug users keep the Mexican drug gangs flush with cash. Yay, drug use!!
We have a winner.
I don’t snorkel or scuba. No I have not.
What about the parents allowing them to go to Mexico? Oh, the parents went to Mexico in their college years, my CHILD has a RIGHT to go there now. Where’s Cornhole spend his vaca time? St. Tropez? Probably. Senators and Congressworms can go anywhere in the world they like, at our expense, and bitch at the same time that no one else can. Class warfare. Can’t anyone else see this?
Yea "probably" safer than TJ or Juarez
What an idiot.
The government wants USA citizens to spend as much money as possible in Mexico, damn the danger.
They could care less if any of them get hurt or killed, just spend the trust fund money there.
On the bright side of the darkening economic news, the decreased disposable income in the United States has caused an uproar among the drug cartels...
Perhaps we can get them to bail out our banks...
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