Last weekend, the United States Department of State published its annual travel alert update for Mexico, in which it recommends its citizens not to visit or take special precautions if they go to 30 of the 32 entities in the country. For Joe Biden’s government, it is only safe to travel to Campeche and Yucatán.
In this update, the US government asks its citizens – as it had done last year – not to travel to Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas, due to the high rates of crimes and kidnappings they register. Likewise, it recommends its travelers reconsider any trip to Baja California, Chihuahua, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Sonora, and Chiapas. This last entity worsened the security rating given by the US government and for the first time appears on the list.
Only Durango improved the rating and left the group of entities that Washington asks to reconsider trips and moved to the list of states in which the State Department asks its travelers to take the greatest precautions.
“Violent crime – such as homicides, kidnappings, car thefts, and robberies – is widespread in Mexico. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in many areas of Mexico, as travel by U.S. government employees to certain areas is prohibited or restricted. In many states, local emergency services are limited outside the state capital or major cities,” the State Department warns.
Regarding Chiapas, the only state that worsened its rating in this update, the US government notes that any travel due to crime should be reconsidered and warns that there may be criminal activity and violence throughout the state.
He adds that in Mexico “U.S. government employees cannot travel between cities after dark, cannot hail taxis on the street, and must rely on dispatched vehicles, including app-based services like Uber, and ride-hailing. “regulated taxi services,” in addition to avoiding traveling alone, especially in remote areas, and cannot drive from the southern border of their country to or from the interior of Mexico, except for daytime trips within Baja California and between Nogales and Hermosillo, between New Laredo and Monterrey, and between Ciudad Juárez and other cities.
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