Mexico Travel Safety
Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2009
I'm so glad that the media is finally catching on that your favorite beach destinations are as safe as ever. Some quotes from the article:
Despite the travel alert, "we are not advising people not to go to Mexico," says Heide Bronke Fulton, a State Department spokeswoman. She adds that the main areas of concern are cities and towns near the U.S. border.
Security experts say tourists can safely travel to Mexico -- if they stay within known resort areas, avoid traveling to Mexico by road and steer clear of U.S. border areas. Mike Ackerman, president of the Ackerman Group, an investigative security firm, says most of the drug-trade crime within Mexico is "narco on narco" violence or violence against police. Kidnapping, another growing problem in Mexico, almost always targets wealthy Mexicans, not Americans or other foreigners.
I'm so glad that the media is finally catching on that your favorite beach destinations are as safe as ever. Some quotes from the article:
Despite the travel alert, "we are not advising people not to go to Mexico," says Heide Bronke Fulton, a State Department spokeswoman. She adds that the main areas of concern are cities and towns near the U.S. border.
Security experts say tourists can safely travel to Mexico -- if they stay within known resort areas, avoid traveling to Mexico by road and steer clear of U.S. border areas. Mike Ackerman, president of the Ackerman Group, an investigative security firm, says most of the drug-trade crime within Mexico is "narco on narco" violence or violence against police. Kidnapping, another growing problem in Mexico, almost always targets wealthy Mexicans, not Americans or other foreigners.
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