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Some people compare all areas of Mexico as if it were all the same. Mexico is ranked in the top 15 largest countries in the world. As with any large country there are some areas worse than others as far as crime is concerned. We travel to resort areas of Mexico and explore the areas each trip. Never had a problem with crime in Mexico. Below is part of a recent article from :
http://www.mexidata.info/id2980.html
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"In addition to economic woes, Mexican tourist towns soon began facing a serious image problem due to media fallout from the so-called narco war. Worse yet, an increasing number of visitors from the US and Canada witnessed some act of violence somewhere in Mexico or heard about someone who did. The conventional wisdom in the tourism business is that for every bad rap, at least ten new tourists are lost from word-of-mouth.
Perhaps typical is a woman recently overhead in a New Mexico restaurant who told her companions that she used to travel to Mexico all the time but was avoiding the country for now. To an attentive table, she explained how the brother of a Mexican acquaintance was gunned down in a border town while eating in a restaurant — a presumed victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Many residents of Puerto Vallarta and Zihuatanejo, which have suffered little violence of late, protest they pay the price for sins committed elsewhere in their huge and diverse country. From their standpoint, it's almost as if a Mexican tourist would avoid traveling to San Francisco because of violence in Albuquerque.
"This really isn't a combat zone. We aren't in a war," Zihuatanejo resident Cortez insists. "People aren't being killed in the streets as they say."
Still, violence in many parts of the country, coupled with the now-routine travel advisories, keep grabbing the headlines in the US media."
http://www.mexidata.info/id2980.html
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"In addition to economic woes, Mexican tourist towns soon began facing a serious image problem due to media fallout from the so-called narco war. Worse yet, an increasing number of visitors from the US and Canada witnessed some act of violence somewhere in Mexico or heard about someone who did. The conventional wisdom in the tourism business is that for every bad rap, at least ten new tourists are lost from word-of-mouth.
Perhaps typical is a woman recently overhead in a New Mexico restaurant who told her companions that she used to travel to Mexico all the time but was avoiding the country for now. To an attentive table, she explained how the brother of a Mexican acquaintance was gunned down in a border town while eating in a restaurant — a presumed victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Many residents of Puerto Vallarta and Zihuatanejo, which have suffered little violence of late, protest they pay the price for sins committed elsewhere in their huge and diverse country. From their standpoint, it's almost as if a Mexican tourist would avoid traveling to San Francisco because of violence in Albuquerque.
"This really isn't a combat zone. We aren't in a war," Zihuatanejo resident Cortez insists. "People aren't being killed in the streets as they say."
Still, violence in many parts of the country, coupled with the now-routine travel advisories, keep grabbing the headlines in the US media."
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