Mexico: Drug Violence and Spring Break; More Police at Mexico City Airport

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | March 4th, 2009 | Trackback

Mexico’s escalating drug violence, especially in border areas, prompted the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to urge college students planning spring break trips to northern Mexico to reconsider their plans. The warning included Tijuana and Rosarito Beach, whose mayor responded by saying that Rosarito has hosted hundreds of thousands of spring breakers over the years without a major incident, no tourists have been targeted in the drug violence, and with a tourist police force in place visitors will be safer than ever this year. In other news, Mexican authorities are taking seriously crime at Mexico City’s airport, adding 460 city police officers to patrol areas surrounding the airport in addition to the 350 new federal agents who have been deployed to the airport since December. The moves were made to combat a wave of robberies of arriving passengers who exchanged sizable sums of money at airport currency exchange offices.

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