The U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Mexico have, nonetheless, issued a handful of safety alerts since January for Ciudad Juárez and a number of other cities in Sinaloa and Quintana Roo states. Reuters reported that an Aeromexico aircraft was struck by gunfire in early January; the Culiacán airport closed as a consequence of violence following the arrest of alleged fentanyl trafficker Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

“In gentle of extensively publicized safety incidents in fashionable vacationer locations, please do not forget that all locations have some degree of threat,” a Jan. 23 alert about taxi disputes in Cancún notes. “Violent crime — comparable to murder, kidnapping, carjacking, and theft — is widespread and customary in Mexico.”

A California public defender died in January at a resort in Baja California in what native authorities characterised as a fall from the third ground of the resort. His household has questioned that ruling, the Orange County Register reported, pointing to evaluation of the post-mortem that confirmed accidents inconsistent with a fall.

The US, after all, has its personal issues with violence; mass shootings have averaged a couple of a day in 2023 and homicides reached their highest ranges in many years over the previous few years. Different international locations, together with Canada, Germany and Australia, routinely warn their residents about gun crime when touring to the U.S.

By November of final yr, greater than 30 million U.S. residents traveled to Mexico, a rise of 18 % from the earlier yr, in keeping with information from the U.S. Division of Commerce. Right here’s what authorities, safety and journey specialists say guests ought to know.