Travel warning for Mexico renewed by U.S. government - Polidicks

[quote] [B]The U.S. State Department has renewed its travel warning for Mexico.[/B] The travel warning — a step up from travel alerts — urges U.S. citizens to defer unnecessary travel to the northern Mexican states of Michoacán and Tamaulipas and parts of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, and Coahuila. The state of Sonora is not included in this section. But the city of Nogales, Sonora is again mentioned as one of the cities in northern Mexico where large gun battles have taken place and as one of the cities that have experienced daytime public shootouts. This wording has been included in the previous travel warning from March and the travel alerts from 2009. The number of killings in Mexico's drug wars has spiked to unprecedented levels in Nogales over the past three years, as drug cartels battle for the prized corridor and as Mexican law enforcement attempts to weaken them. There were 130 homicides in 2009, up from 116 in 2008 and 52 in 2007, according to official figures from the Sonoran government. Through June 2010, there have been 120 homicides. Due to this situation, the State Department has given family members of officials at the U.S. consulates in Nogales, Sonora, Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros permission to temporarily relocate to the U.S. This new warning extends the authorization that was first issued in March. Unlike a mandatory evacuation, families aren’t required to leave, but are offered monetary assistance to move. The State Department does not divulge how many families have taken the offer. The new warning also includes a warning about Mexican highways along the U.S.-Mexico that echoes a “Warden Message” issued by the U.S. Consulate in Nogales in May. The warning says that consulate employees and their families from interior Mexican posts are not allowed to travel by car across the U.S.-Mexico border. Employees and their families from border consulates are still allowed to drive across the border but they are not allowed to drive to interior posts. In Sonora, the warning says travel is allowed between Hermosillo and Nogales but not from Hermosillo to any other consulates. “Continued concerns regarding road safety along the Mexican border have prompted the U.S. Mission in Mexico to impose certain restrictions on U.S. government employees transiting the area,” the warning says. “U.S. citizens should make every attempt to travel on main roads during daylight hours, particularly the toll ("cuota") roads, which generally are more secure,” the warning recommends. In May, the U.S. Consulate in Nogales, Sonora, issued a “Warden advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling at night on Highway 8 between the U.S.-Mexico border and Rocky Point, due to unconfirmed reports of fake checkpoints set up at night. The alert told travelers to remain calm and cooperate if they are stopped at such a checkpoint. Rocky Point business owners called the advisory unjustified and poorly timed, and questioned the validity of the “unconfirmed reports.” The Consulate sent out an email clarifying the message but stood behind the alert. State Department travel warnings are used to describe long-term situations that make a country dangerous. The warning says that an estimated 22,700 people have been killed in narcotics-related violence since 2006 in Mexico. The majority have been members of the cartels, but innocent bystanders have also been killed in the shootouts, it says. [/quote]Fucking Hypocrites.... :colbert: Sauce: [url]http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_78332bc6-94f6-11df-99cf-001cc4c03286.html[/url]

Good, Those areas are horrible.

First swine flu, now shootings? Is Mexico's government always high on drugs?

[QUOTE=Murkat;23523156]First swine flu, now shootings? Is Mexico's government always high on drugs?[/QUOTE] What do you mean [B]now[/B] shootings? There's been thousands of gang killings all over Mexico for several years. So many, in fact, that people who aren't in gangs are killing people they don't like because the police will just assume the victim was killed by a gang.

Most of it really is a dangerous shithole. People get gunned down for no reason all the time by gangs and nutjobs.

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