There are “no go” zones in Mexico. Mexicans avoid them too. And they have been increasing.
My 1st husband and I quit driving our Suburban on Culiacan highway on vacations, in spite of the scenery and good road-it was a “no go” zone for any Latino with a good job and family on either side of the border-that was in about 1987-with both of us being American/Texican Latino, speaking Spanish as our 2nd language-and him often doing engineering work on company projects on both sides of the border, we didn’t care to be abducted and/or executed by the cartel that patrolled that road, looking for ransom bait...