Why the U.S. Considers Parts of Mexico as Dangerous as Syria, Somalia

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[Mount Athos]

Across the Colima-Michoacán-Guerrero tri-state area, the U.S. government prohibited employees from travel:

“to the entire state of Guerrero, including Acapulco”; “armed groups operate independently of the government in many areas” “in Michoacán state, with the exception of Morelia and Lazaro Cardenas cities and the area north of federal toll road 15D”; “by land, except on federal toll road 15D” “to Tecoman or within 12 miles of the Colima-Michoacán border and on Route 110 between La Tecomaca and the Jalisco border”

Further north, Sinaloa (Level 4, “do not travel”) on the Gulf of California was the same subsistence farming region of lawless mountain canyons where Chinese railroad builders introduced poppy cultivation at the turn of the 20th Century, according to The Washington Post. In 2017, the U.S. government extradited two notorious Sinaloa men. Foremost among them: “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker”, El Chapo Guzman;

Due east from Baja California, DoS also advised “do not travel” (Level 4) to Tamaulipas on Texas’ Gulf Coast border. Federal employees are subject to a curfew. Tamaulipas is home to the Laredo borderplex where Kansas City Rail links Mexico’s Pacific ports to the American Midwest.

[Mount Athos]

cozumel is still relatively safe looks like. I would have thought El Salvador and Honduras would be at least as dangerous as the worst parts of mexico but it seems no.

Some time ago I posted stories detailing an epidemic of tourists getting drugged via drinks provided at mexican resorts, getting robbed and abused and getting no help from authorities.

[Jim Robinson]

Sounds like a sh, er, hellhole to me.

[A_Former_Democrat]

No, that’s Missouri . . . according to naacp and fodor’s

[bgill]

Then there’s Chicago.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Maybe this has something to do with it:

[2harddrive]

Now, lets not get ahead of ourselves, jumping to conclusions. LOL!

[American Quilter]

I wouldn’t go anywhere in Mexico for any reason.

[jazminerose]

So sad about Michoacán. I know someone who immigrated here legally who is from there and always describes it as having been such a lovely, colonial community.