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Travel News from
Marie in Mexico:
Finally there is some positive news from Mexico!
Please click on the BBC News link below,
and then scroll down in the article to the
blue letters that read: TRAVEL WARNINGS.
Then scroll down and click on MEXICO.
The county is divided by regions, so if you scroll down
the page for Mexico, below the General
Conditions section, you will note that
Mexico City, Chiapas & Oaxaca are listed as:
Mexico City
(also known as the Federal District):
No advisory is in effect
Chiapas: San Cristobal de las Casas
is a major city/travel destination in Chiapas
(map= http://travel.state.gov/pdf/mexico_map.pdf ):
No advisory is in effect
Oaxaca
No advisory is in effect
The State Department site confirms what I am
reading here in Mexico City newspapers:
Tourism is up,
and Mexico is the # 1 site for U.S. tourists.
Besides Mexico City, Chiapas and Oaxaca being sites
where "no travel advisory is in effect," the nearby States
of Puebla and Mexico have no advisories,
as well as the State of Queretero.
News about Mexico is often dominated by drug violence,
but David A Shirk of the Trans-Border Institute
at San Diego University argues it is
time to challenge overly negative views of the country:
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