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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's [b]Puerto Vallarta, which I do think is known to not be the safest option for travel in Mexico[/b].  I think something this extreme though is not common.  Before it's been more tourists caught in line of fire by accident or kidnappings.[/quote]

Really?  It was a pretty popular spring break destination when I was in college (east coast) in the early 2000s.  Also attended a wedding there once around 2010.  It seemed pretty full of UMC American tourists both times.

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Is it really that shocking that conditions could have changed from your experience 15-25 years ago?

I grew up in Southern California in the 90s and families would regularly drive over to Tijuana for the day…I certainly wouldn’t recommend doing the same now.[/quote]

Of course not, places do change all the time, but I hadn't heard that before, that's why I was asking if it had really changed that much, I'd had no idea it was no longer a normal UMC tourist spot.  No need to get prickly. [/quote]

My impression is that Puerto Vallarta is still pretty touristy and safe, although the area between Puerto Vallarta and Mexico City has some cartel-heavy areas.  I'm really surprised that Puerto Vallarta is covered by a shelter-in-place order.   There's a nice Westin, a Dreams, a Marriot, etc.  It's not a sketchy area, so a shelter in place is a scary.  [/quote]

See earlier posts about cartels operating “in the background.”

That post was troubling because it sounded like someone who felt safe in their bubble, because they were not the one being gruesomely murdered.

When will we learn that lawlessness is threatening to everyone? [/quote]

Who is we?  What can a US citizen reasonably do to advocate for improved Mexican policing?[/quote]

Petition our government, which can spend our money and soft power  freely to influence international affairs when they are so inclined.

More importantly, if we boycott travel to Mexico (rather than chasing the cheapest margarita), their leaders will probably decide that they can’t continue looking the other way.

(Interesting that it took a woman in  charge to crack down finally .)  [/quote]

It's not so much that they are looking the other way. It's that anyone who takes them on is assassinated at some point. Tons and tons and tons of cartel related political assassinations there. [/quote]

That is ONE reason those in charge look the other way.

The other is corruption.

It will take courage and years to clean things up, but the status quo is not an option. Not is condemning our southern neighbors to living in a lawless state.[/quote]

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