On Thursday, January 9, 2014, the U.S. State Department
issued a new travel warning for México, which replaces the one issued on
July 12, 2013.
The new travel warning acknowledges that millions of
U.S. citizens safely visit México each year for study, tourism, and
business, including more than 150,000 who cross the border every day.
However, its points U.S. citizens have become victims to criminal
activity, including homicide, gun battles, kidnapping, carjacking and
highway robbery. The warning states while most of those killed in
narcotics-related violence have been members of criminal gangs, innocent
people have also been killed.
The travel advisory states that “Nearly 90 Americans
were kidnapped in México between April and November 2013, while 81
people were killed last year and 71 in 2012.”
The U.S. State Department recommends using extreme
caution, if traveling to certain areas of Baja California,
Aguascalientes, Veracruz and Sonora.
It also recommends the elimination of non-essential
travel in certain areas of the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit,
Sinaloa, San Luis Potosi, State of México, Coahuila, Colima, Michoacan,
Nuevo Leon, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas and Durango. With respect to the state
of Sinaloa, the travel warning specifically excepts Mazatlán from the
advisory.
(from Milenio)
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