MEXICO -Travel Alert
 

Travel Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Bureau of Consular Affairs

his information is current as of today, Wed Oct 15 2008 15:46:35 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time).

Mexico

October 14, 2008

This Travel Alert updates security information for U.S. citizens traveling and living in Mexico. It replaces the Travel Alert for Mexico dated April 14, 2008, and expires on April 14, 2009.

While millions of U.S. Citizens safely visit Mexico each year, including thousands who cross the land border every day for study, tourism or business, increased levels of violence make it imperative that travelers understand the risks of travel to Mexico, how best to avoid dangerous situations, and whom to contact if one is a victim of crime. Common-sense precautions, such as visiting only legitimate business and tourist areas, avoiding areas where prostitution and drug dealing might occur, and exercising prudence in where one visits during the evening hours and at night, can help ensure that travel to Mexico is safe and enjoyable.

Violence Along the U.S. - Mexico Border

Mexican drug cartels are engaged in an increasingly violent fight for control of narcotics trafficking routes along the U.S. - Mexico border in an apparent response to the Government of Mexico?s initiatives to crack down on narco-trafficking organizations. In order to combat violence, the government of Mexico has deployed military troops in various parts of the country. U.S. citizens should cooperate fully with official checkpoints when traveling on Mexican highways.

Some recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have taken on the characteristics of small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and, on occasion, grenades. Firefights have taken place in many towns and cities across Mexico but particularly in northern Mexico, including Tijuana, Chihuahua City and Ciudad Juarez. The situation in northern Mexico remains fluid; the location and timing of future armed engagements cannot be predicted.

fULL sTOrY cLIck HERE..

yeap, has been going on for a while, it took them long enough to update the site!

Just south of the border, past San Diego, we would always go to just past La Fonda, past Rosarito, then it was somewhat calm, now its moved all the way down there, very bad.

Even in Cabo San Lucas its getting worse and worse :(

What's happening there?

You'll find more information on Reuters website than at the US embassy in Mexico or Mexican consulate in Los Angeles.

What makes you say that ?

What a damn shame.... I have such fond memories of that area of Mexico....

..................... ?

well this sucks. mexico is great to make those weekend surf trips :) went few months back and didnt see anything like this but it could have worsened

We had to cancel our Mexican pub crawls this past Spring Break because of this shit. South Padre Island was the perfect spring break spot cause under 21 year old college kids could take a shuttle across the border into Matamoros, Mexico. Hopefully this stuff settles down by March, so we don't have to cancel these awesome parties for Spring Break 2009...

Jim

spent two weeks in juarez on business and a week near TJ. that's all of mexico i wanna see...

Yeah, I think the government knows how much they are losing on tourism because of it

Crazy shit has been going on down there for quite sometime now.
A buddy of mine was killed in Juarez Mexico 2 months ago.
He was visiting his brother inlaw who has a home in Juarez and gunmen stormed
the house they were at and executed all the males inside and made the females watch.