Across the Colima-Michoacán-Guerrero tri-state area, the U.S. government prohibited employees from travel: “to the entire state of Guerrero, including Acapulco”; “armed groups operate independently of the government in many areas” “in Michoacán state, with the exception of Morelia and Lazaro Cardenas cities and the area north of federal toll road 15D”; “by land, except on federal toll road 15D” “to Tecoman or within 12 miles of the Colima-Michoacán border and on Route 110 between La Tecomaca and the Jalisco border” Further north, Sinaloa (Level 4, “do not travel”) on the Gulf of California was the same subsistence farming region of...