SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC 4 News) - The State Department and universities across the country are warning Spring Breakers to stay away from Mexico. A sruge of drug-related muder and mayhem south of the border is claiming many lives.
Tijuana was one of six North-Mexican border cities the State Department is warning Americans to avoid, but that isn’t stopping Alex Carr, a University of Utah student, from visiting for spring break.
Thousands of Spring Breakers are expected to head south of the border, at a time when gunmen with suspected ties to a Mexican drug cartel killed a pregnant woman and her husband, shooting them dead on Saturday, while they were driving just outside of El Paso.
Over the weekend, gang violence claimed dozens of lives, including 15 shot dead in the resort town of Acapulco.
So are students worried? University of Utah student Luis Moreno figures, “If I get in the right taxi I should be fine right?”
Four years ago, Mexican President Felipe Calderon deployed the army to crack down on the drug cartels. Since then it’s created a daily conflict that’s claimed the lives of more than 18-thousand people.
