Thread: Ambassador urges caution by U.S. travelers to Mexico

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Sept. 15, 2006, 1:03AM
Ambassador urges caution by U.S. travelers to Mexico

Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza issued a message Thursday advising U.S. citizens to exercise extreme caution when traveling in Mexico because of "the rising level of brutal violence" south of the Rio Grande.

The message stopped short of warning travelers not to visit Mexico. But it warned them to stick to well-known tourist destinations and main roads and refrain from displaying expensive-looking jewelry.

"The bottom line is that we simply cannot allow drug traffickers to place in jeopardy the lives of our citizens and the safety of our communities," Garza said in a statement. "Together, we can restore order and successfully take on those who are undermining our society, culture, and institutions."

Garza singled out Nuevo Laredo as being particularly dangerous.

He reported that this week, armed men went into a Nuevo Laredo hotel and held up 25 people who were going to work for a Texas-based company, assaulting and threatening to kill them.

"The bottom line is that we simply cannot allow drug traffickers to place in jeopardy the lives of our citizens and the safety of our communities," Garza said in a statement. "Together, we can restore order and successfully take on those who are undermining our society, culture, and institutions."

Good idea. How about starting here at home by removing those who are harming and killing Americans, undermining our society and institutions?

My thoughts exactly Kate!

Ditto, Kate!

Count me in Kate. Then after that, build the entire 2000 mile wall to keep them out. This way we can let in legally the ones who do actually want to work and become Americans the LEGAL way.

"The bottom line is that we simply cannot allow drug traffickers to place in jeopardy the lives of our citizens and the safety of our communities," Garza said in a statement. "Together, we can restore order and successfully take on those who are undermining our society, culture, and institutions."

You might want to pass that little tidbit on to Senor Bush and the wannabe Mexican congress inside the beltway.

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I posted this last night along with the actual warning on the Ambassador's government page.

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