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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I largely agree that travel to Europe, Asia, Canada is all fine and people don't care.

But we were planning a trip to Mexico in April and one to South America in August, and are rethinking both. Especially Mexico. It just feels like we have no idea what's going to be happening in Venezuela in 3 months and we maybe don't want to be flying in and out of Mexico City if certain things are going on. Especially given that the whole pretext to the Venezuela actions was drug trafficking.

So yes I do think there are international destinations that maybe we should reconsider at the moment.[/quote]

I wouldn’t go to Colombia but Mexico is fine.  There is zero chance we would invade Mexico.  We have a lot of American investments there that would be disrupted plus Mexican investments in America (bimbo for instance owns many American factories).  Plus even if you change the regime, that will have zero effect on the cartels.  And there’s no real way to go against the cartels — the sophistication of the cartels would make the afghani taliban folks look like kids with slingshots.  There is some chance that the U.S. will put so much pressure on the Mexican government that they do something to upset the current balance that keeps the capital and the tourist areas largely safe, I guess.   But I think the odds that would flip back on Americans on vacation is still pretty low.  
Mexicans, in general, don’t blame us for our crappy government, just as they don’t blame themselves for their own crappy government.  Mexicans are pretty pragmatic about that stuff.

Also I’d say Ecuador doesn’t have much choice but to treat American tourists well.  They run on the American dollar and don’t print it (obviously) — so they need American trade and tourists or their entire economy collapses.  [/quote]

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