It may have been on FR, but I didn’t see it, but 4 days ago, three American Citizens were shot, two of them Children during a robbery/killing spree on a bus in Vera Cruz, MX. Maria Hartsell, and her two kids from Cleburne, TX, IIRC.
I have friends from Alabama who moved to the Yucatan Peninsula and are back in the States for Christmas ... to get to the village they live in takes a 4 hour bus ride [or a one hour car drive].
I fear for their lives and the lives of their children.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Three U.S. citizens were among those killed when gunmen attacked buses in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said a U.S. State Department official said on Saturday.
The three were traveling for the holidays when they and several other passengers on the bus were killed by gunmen on Thursday, according to the U.S. official and local media. The incident was one of several that day in which gunmen attacked busses in the eastern state, a major oil export hub that has lately become a flashpoint for drug gang violence.
On Friday, the tortured bodies of 10 people were found in northern Veracruz, local media reported, as attacks in the region intensify between the Zetas gang and Gulf drug... cartels.