As my good Mexican friend said, tourists are okay in Cancun and other major resorts.  He is hoping Americans don't overreact and stop going to Mexico. My friend is right — millions of U.S. tourists enjoy Mexico and return for more. Nevertheless, there is bad news, from the massacre last week to other events, as Nathaniel Parish Flannery wrote: Cancun has been hurt by a troubling increase in violent crime.  In March, 2018 criminals planted a bomb on a ferry in Cancun, injuring at least 24 people.  In 2017 three tourists were killed while visiting a beach in Baja California Sur by gunmen with automatic weapons. Perhaps no city has been hit harder by violence than Acapulco.  In January 2018 a Chilean tourist was killed in shoot-out in a beach-side bar.  In March, 2018 another tourist was killed in a shooting at a public event near the Caleta beach in Acapulco.  On a number of occasions in 2018...(Read Full Post)