A warning for Americans traveling to Baja
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A new travel alert -- or, to be precise, an updated alert -- was issued last week for Americans traveling to Mexico. The State Department bulletin was concerned primarily with criminal activity in the border towns and warned of an increase in narcotics-related violence, including carjackings and armed robbery.
But it was this rather astonishing statement that caught our eye: ``Dozens of U.S. citizens were kidnapped and/or murdered in Tijuana in 2007.''
Wondering why a stern warning wasn't issued sooner? It's not that media outlets haven't dutifully reported the situation. A February article in the San Diego Union-Tribune, for instance, revealed that ''organized, well-financed and violent Mexican kidnapping cells are targeting a growing number of U.S. citizens visiting communities popular with San Diegans and other California residents.'' Indeed, according to the paper, at least 26 residents of the San Diego area were abducted and held for ransom last year.
Arturo Martinez Esquer of the Baja California State Tourism Secretariat disputed media accounts of a crime wave, stating that Baja ''welcomes more than 25 million visitors a year. Only a few of those have experienced any considerable setbacks during their stay, and none of them since late November of 2007.'' He said 380,000 people visited Baja during the recent spring break season and experienced no ``major setbacks.''
But Newsweek, which also investigated the kidnapping surge, reported in a February issue that 18 Americans have been abducted since Thanksgiving. Some of the victims were seriously injured and others were killed, according to the magazine.
One thing's for sure: Americans visiting Mexican border towns should exercise caution. For information on how to avoid being a crime victim in Tijuana, see the Web site of the U.S. consulate general in Tijuana at tijuana.usconsulate.gov.
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