Travel in Baja Peninsula or Chihuahua State
I've always wanted to do a drive through Copper Canyon in Chihuahua State of Mexico, but my wife is very nervous. Does anyone have any (preferably reassuring) story about travel there? Or, alternatel...
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CharlesinGA wrote:
How did this wind up in Tech Issues?
The State Department has issued new travel advisories for Mexico.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/01/10/us-slaps-highest-level-do-not-travel-warning-on-five-mexican-states.html
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/International-Travel-Country-Information-Pages/Mexico.html
Charles
If it's on Fox News, it must not be true :)
The State Department did NOT issue travel advisories "for Mexico." It issued advisories for FIVE MEXICAN STATES. Of those, only Tamaulipas borders the US (far northeast, bordering the Gulf and Texas). The vast majority of American tourists travel to Baja, Sonora, Chihuahua, and the Yucatan peninsula. There are 31 states in Mexico, and the travel advisory states are some of the smaller ones.
Nobody should buy in to the "fear and hate the Mexicans" narrative. Maybe some guy with weird orange hair is afraid of them, but I'd rather travel in Mexico for a month than walk down the streets of some US cities for five minutes.
