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Mexico tourist warnings for Americans planning to travel to Mexico:
This web site provides information for Americans that plan trips into Mexico regarding the dangers associated with travel there.
The information is collected over several official websites, US Government documents and with the experience of other Americans traveling there and is reliable. The bottom line ... Americans traveling into Mexico have experienced recent increased violence and travel there is not recommended.
The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. tourists about the risk of traveling to certain places in Mexico due to threats to safety and security posed by organized criminal groups in the country. U.S. tourists have been the victims of violent crimes, such as kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery by organized criminal groups in various Mexican states (Source=US State Department). The violence has increased dramatically as the evidence from reliable sources below demonstrates. These include popular destinations for USA tourists such as San Carlos, Puerto Penasco, Cabo San Lucas, etc.
Since 2006, there have been over 60,000 innocent people murdered in Mexico (Source=Global Conflict Tracker). Many of these people are ordinary American tourists like you and I traveling to popular Mexican tourists destinations. The escalations of these violent crimes continues to increase, and there is no guarantee the violence will decrease towards Americans traveling there. If you must travel by car there, make every effort to travel during daylight hours. Many of the American tourists that go missing (and presumed murdered) are being kidnapped while traveling by car.
Using a typical Mexican city of Juarez, the average murder rate in the city is 8.5 Homicides / Day (Source=CNN). That equates to 3,104 homicides per year! Your chances of being involved in a violent criminal act in a small, average Mexican city is far greater than the worst criminal areas of Los Angeles, Chicago or New York. Think about this before you travel!!!
Using a typical violence that can occur to you while traveling to Mexico, on Monday, 29 October 2015, Mexico City experienced an unprecedented horrid scene, a dead man’s body hanging over the bridge Concordia in a busy street in Iztapalapa, one of the city’s 16 boroughs. Seemingly in anticipation of Halloween, the man was wrapped from ankles to neck in white bandages like a mummy and his head covered with a black sack like a hood. Authorities said the man, 25, was killed by two bullets to the head. The grisly discovery, which flooded the news and the internet, does not appear to be an isolated case. Soon after, the body of another homicide victim was dumped at night in the same neighborhood where the dangling cadaver was discovered, Mexico City’s attorney general said. The man was killed execution style by a single shot to the head. According to Mexican press reports, a message was left with the body, addressed to Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera (Source=Forbes).
While bodies hanging from bridges and highway overpasses are not uncommon in Mexico’s most violent regions, this is the first time the nation’s capital has experienced such a gruesome scene. In the past, the brutal tactic has been linked to drug cartels in Tamaulipas, Chihuahua and Veracruz and includes popular American tourists destinations.
Over the past months, there have also been a number of violent developments that bear the signs of narcoterrorism, such as the execution of a bar owner in the fashionable Condesa zone and the discovery of mutilated and tortured bodies in plastic bags found at different points of Mexico City’s 20 million person metropolitan area (Source=Forbes).
There is no nationwide advisory in effect for Mexico. However, you should exercise a high degree of caution due to violence, especially in those parts of Mexico experiencing a deteriorating security situation. High levels of criminal activity, as well as demonstrations, protests and occasional illegal roadblocks, remain a concern throughout the country. If you must travel into Mexico, it is strongly recommended that you travel by air in order to avoid land border crossings through (potentially) dangerous regions (Source=Travel Advisory).
