Mexico travel alert from U.S. State Department

Citing rising violence, the U.S. State Department’s latest Mexico alert urges travelers to delay trips to parts of Michoacan and Chihuahua states.

The alert, issued Thursday, advises U.S. citizens to delay unnecessary travel to those areas and to exercise “extreme caution” if a visit is necessary.

The alert notes the abduction and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua in July. It gives no details from Michoacan (which includes the city of Morelia and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, which draws many visitors), and a spokesman said he was not immediately able to supply more than was in the posted alert.


The State Department alert reported that amid the fighting between authorities and drug cartels, assaults, murders and kidnappings have been on the rise in the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila, and that robberies, homicides, petty thefts and carjackings have jumped in Tijuana and northern Baja California.

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