Posted on 03/01/2011 8:16:42 AM PST by Snickering Hound
AUSTIN - The Texas Department of Public Safety is advising students on spring break to avoid drug violence-plagued Mexico.
A DPS statement Tuesday cited the continued violence and also urged boaters to stay on the U.S. side of Falcon Lake.
A U.S. drug agent was shot and killed Feb. 15 in Mexico. The victim was Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Jaime Zapata.
DPS Director Steven McCraw says while drug cartel violence is most severe in northern Mexico, it's prominent in other parts of the country, including resort areas such as Cancun and Acapulco.
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Someone would have to be dumber than a post to go into Mexico right now—IMHO.
any parent who lets their kid go to Mexico for spring break- is nuts!
I’ve read a report the latest trend is the cartels and affilitates assassinating cabbies (who are often drug mules) along with their fares
Matter of time before there is a major tourist death story
I’d advise everybody to avoid Mexico, period.
I just got back from a week in Cancun -it was great. This is like saying don’t go to the USA because 500 people were murdered in Detroit last year. Use your common sense.
I hear Kabul is nice this time of year.
I lived in Mexico for nearly 7 years and I am here to tell you that I would not go to Mexico now. Not even Cancun. Several foriegn tourists were recently killed there for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Somali coastal cruise lines.
Very good advice, but somewhere there are some idiots who wont pay attention to it. I know someone who is from a town South of Matamores/Brownsville (He’s legal). Every winter he would go there to visit family. He always claimed it was safe in that particular area. I just spoke to him following his most recent visit and he says it has become very dangerous and he might not be going back anytime soon and he fears for his relatives.
USA is one thing. Detroit is another...I wouldn’t go there either.
Good thinking!
I am going on “Spring Broke” at home.
Oh yeah,Anybody kacked in Med-Hi-Co on spring break should get put on the Darwin Award list.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of the Baja peninsula, is well away from the drug farming areas and smuggling routes. More than any other place in Mexico, they depend on tourist dollars rather than narcodollars, so the local cops keep a very tight lid on things and it is still safe. In fact, they actively discourage spring breakers because they are after the more affluent tourists. I really would not go anywhere else in the country right now.
You haven’t been to the real Mexico unless you’ve been to Oaxaca...
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