Posted on 06/08/2011 12:28:47 PM PDT by La Lydia
AN ANTONIO — Mexico is asking Texas authorities to tone down travel warnings that broadly discourage tourists from crossing the border because of violence. The head of Mexico’s state-run tourism board on Wednesday was in Austin to meet with Texas Secretary of State Hope Andrade and law enforcement officials. Mexico wants Texas to stop portraying the entire country as unsafe in travel bulletins.
A spring break advisory in March cautioned Texans against traveling even to popular resort areas such as Cancun because of crime.
Rodolfo Lopez-Negrete, who runs Mexico’s tourism board, said travel to pockets like violent Ciduad Juarez is obviously unsafe. He said travelers should also use “common sense” when crossing into border cities like Reynosa or Nuevo Laredo.
But Lopez-Negrete said major resort destinations in the country remain safe....
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Sounds like he took that line directly out of the letter he sent us when we canceled our reservations for a reunion.
Headless bodies found in Tamaulipas[Mexico]
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Sshhhhh!
I think a weapon would be of more value than “common sense” with those people. If you want to play the lottery, just buy a million dollars of life insurance and head off to Mexico!
“I think a weapon would be of more value than “common sense” with those people.”
I agree, that is the only way I would go to Mexico. Are you anywhere near the fires?
We in Texas laugh routinely at anything the Mexican government suggests. They are so full of poopy the should be the number one manure producing country in the world.
I don’t know any Texans planning to head to Mexico for vacations.
Mexico is a cess pool that has no right whatsoever to lecture Texas on a damn thing.
“should be the number one manure producing country in the world.”
After Washington DC and Augusta, Maine
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