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State Dept Closes Mexican Consulate, Warns Americans In Yucatan Area |
2018-03-10 |
[Hot Air] If you’ve planned to spend spring break in the tourist resorts of the Yucatan Peninsula, you may want to reconsider.The State Department abruptly closed the US consulate in the popular tourist destination of Playa del Carmen late Wednesday evening and ordered US government employees to stay out of the area. They warn other Americans either in the region or thinking of traveling to it about a "real crime threat" from local drug cartels: |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#5 this will take a huge chunk out of those Tourist Peso's Cancun,Cozumel,Playa De Carmen to Tulum.........a thousand resorts on the shore |
Posted by: 746 2018-03-10 18:42 |
#4 No, no, no. They should reopen it and start rotating the top bureaucrats at State there and to other hellholes. Tell them that they need to (quote) refresh field experience (un-quote) or some such blather -- see if they will quit, eh? |
Posted by: magpie 2018-03-10 14:46 |
#3 ...so sort of like (no-go zones in) Chicago, Baltimore, et al. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-10 07:47 |
#2 Totally not a shithole. Open the borders, let then all in! |
Posted by: Harcourt Angoluting9366 2018-03-10 01:54 |
#1 Those US dollars will be better spent on the wall. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-10 01:44 |