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    Warning US slaps highest-level 'do not travel' warning on five Mexican states

    FOX News and The Associated Press




    The State Department unveiled a revamped travel warning system Wednesday, giving five Mexican states the sternest "do not travel" advisory alongside war-torn nations like Syria, Yemen and Somalia.

    All five states -- Tamaulipas on the U.S. border and Sinaloa, Colima, Michoacan and Guerrero on the Pacific coast -- are hotspots of drug cartel activity, either hosting trafficking routes or extensive drug-crop cultivation.

    The new warning system designates the states as a "level 4" risk, the highest level of potential danger. Mexico as a whole has a level 2 rating, meaning Americans should "exercise increased caution" because of concerns about crime. But an additional 11 Mexican states got a level 3 warning Wednesday, which urges people to "reconsider travel" there. Mexico has 31 states in all.

    Those states where Americans are urged to reconsider travel include the State of Mexico - Mexico's most populous state, which includes most suburbs of Mexico City - and Jalisco, home to the city of Guadalajara, the Puerto Vallarta resorts and the lakeside expat community of Chapala and Ajijic. But the travel advisory said there are "no restrictions on U.S. government employees for stays in ... Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Ajijic."

    Most of northern Mexico, including the border states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Sonora as well as Durango, Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi, are under level 3 warnings.

    Mexico's federal tourism department was not immediately available to comment on the new warnings.

    But the government's Mexico Tourism Board said in a statement that "Mexico's major international tourism destinations have been explicitly listed as having no travel restrictions," apparently a reference to major resorts like Cancun, Puerto Vallarta and Huatulco.

    However, at least two Mexican resorts -- Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo and Acapulco -- are in a do-not-travel state, Guerrero, and last year, the State Department extended a total ban on personal travel by U.S. government personnel there.

    U.S. personnel had previously been allowed to fly to Ixtapa, the last place in Guerrero where they had been allowed to go. Personal travel by land and to the resort city of Acapulco had already been prohibited.

    The no-travel states had mostly already lost much foreign tourism.

    Tamaulipas has long been riven by turf wars between rival drug cartels, and Sinaloa is home to the cartel of the same name. Michoacan was so dominated by a drug cartel that vigilantes took up arms in 2013 to drive them out.

    Colima has seen homicides skyrocket in recent years due to the growth of the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel, and the state now has Mexico's highest homicide rate, with 83.3 killings per 100,000 residents, according to figures for the first 11 months of 2017.

    The U.S. government did note its employees are allowed to go to the seaside city of Manzanillo, Colima.

    The state with second-highest homicide rate -- 61.6 per 100,000 -- was Baja California Sur, home to the twin resorts of Los Cabos. The state conserved its level 2 advisory, "exercise increased caution," despite a series of shootouts and killings in recent months.

    Rising levels of violence have not so far affected Los Cabos, which saw a 16 percent increase in tourism arrivals and an 18 percent rise in hotel occupancy in 2017, said Rodrigo Esponda, managing director of the Los Cabos Tourism Board.

    Esponda said local officials and tourism operators are investing in increased security, including camera systems and the construction of a new marine base.

    "We are going to keep working very hard in 2018 to make sure that Los Cabos continues as a safe destination," Esponda said.

    Speaking to local media earlier this week, Tourism Secretary Enrique De la Madrid said, "In my opinion, the most important challenge we have in the tourism sector are crime events occurring where they didn't before, for example in Cancun, la Paz and Los Cabos."

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    Watched a documentary about the Mexican cartels a couple of nights ago, scary stuff tbh

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    I'm going to hitchhike through those states to prove they are safe






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    Mexico has states?

    Just like their Big Brother, AMERICA!

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    I don't go to Mexico. I go to a Mexican Airport -> Tour Bus -> Gated compound and then back in reverse home again

    When I was 19 I'd go into towns, do some exploring. I've seen the ruins, done the excursions, ventured to the back alleys late night and had a couple sketchy incidences (I can honestly tick-off bribing a Mexican cop not to get arrested for nothing from my bucket list). I'm long done with all that

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    Hmmm... Travel bans, money transfers, NAFTA withdrawal or renegotiation. Nope, Mexico won't pay for that fucking wall. No way, no how.
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    I was in Tijuana when i was around 12 or 13, bought a wooden chess set from a market stall which i still have....... lot of poverty from what i remember though, never saw any trouble.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PorkChopSandwiches View Post
    I'm going to hitchhike through those states to prove they are safe
    Easy for you to say... damn midget beaner.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    I was in Tijuana when i was around 12 or 13, bought a wooden chess set from a market stall which i still have....... lot of poverty from what i remember though, never saw any trouble.
    I'm sure nothing has changed in 40 years.
    I wanted to be a Monk, but I never got the chants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goofy View Post
    I was in Tijuana when i was around 12 or 13, bought a wooden chess set from a market stall which i still have....... lot of poverty from what i remember though, never saw any trouble.





















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    Keep a happy thought

    Coworker went to Mexico over a decade ago and had a similar experience to GF. They could walk around the gated grounds of their hotel, but there were armed military on the street who advised not to go out past 7pm shopping, drinking etc.

    He said there was so much tension on the streets, they were happy to leave.

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    You couldn't pay me to go to Mexico.

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