Mexico: Bombing in Cancun Bar Outside Tourist Area

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | September 8th, 2010 | Trackback

The Aug. 31 firebombing of a local bar outside the tourist area of Cancun killed eight Mexican nationals and raised concerns that such incidents could turn the popular resort into another Acapulco, a once-famous tourist area now largely empty of foreign visitors because of drug violence. While tourists can become victims by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, this incident took place where no tourists go and was believed to stem from a case of resisting extortion rather than drug violence. The tourist area of Cancun has remained largely free of the kind of violence that plagues northern Mexico.

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