Posted on 03/19/2012 7:30:58 PM PDT by STARWISE
An AFP report that President Barack Obamas 13-year-old daughter, Malia, is spending spring break in Oaxaca, Mexico appears to have been completely scrubbed from the Internet news sites that first reported it. Pictures have appeared in Mexican magazine Quién.com allegedly showing Malia in visiting Oaxaca.
AFP first reported around mid-day Monday that Malia Obama was vacationing in Mexico with 12 friends under the protection of 25 Secret Service agents and a number of local police officers.
The International Business Times reported that, the group arrived in Oaxaca on Saturday and reportedly visited the architectural site of Mitla.
The Department of Public Safety, a Texas law enforcement agency, issued a warning on Tuesday against students against celebrating their spring breaks in violence-torn Mexico.
The Huffington Post reported that in February, the United States State Department recommended that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 or 31 Mexican states. Its the widest travel advisory issued by the U.S. since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.
Since the story was first reported, it appears to have been scrubbed from a number of news outlets. The Huffington Post, International Business Times, The Australian, The Telegraph and Global Grind have all removed the article, and AFP, which initially reported the story, now links to an unrelated story on Sengalese superstar Youssou Ndour.
It’s just plain weird. It’s a non story really.
But that things just disappear like this?
Story disappeared from the Telegraph - a UK paper. Aren’t these sovereign countries we are talking about? Or is this all morphing into some “one-world” hell?
There is something very wrong with this whole family’s attitude. 13yo vacation without parents in Mexico. So many problems in that simple statement, not even getting into SS, drug lords war, etc...
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