Texans warned to not travel to Mexico for spring break after recent kidnappings, killing
due to risk of kidnappings and crime.
“Based on the volatile nature of cartel activity and the violence we are seeing there; we are urging individuals to avoid travel to Mexico at this time,” McCraw said.Four Americans were kidnapped March 3 in Mexico City. Two of them were found dead, reported by a top Mexican official March 7. The other two friends were found alive.
The group of friends reportedly drove from South Carolina to Mexico for one of them to undergo a tummy tuck procedure from a doctor in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.A video that has been posted on social media shows them being loaded into the back of a pickup by gunmen.Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador spoke out against the U.S. media coverage of the kidnappings, and claimed it was being sensationalized.
“It’s not like that when they kill Mexicans in the United States, they go quiet like mummies,” he said.lying face down with their hands tied with a letter written by a criminal cartel blaming the men for the attack.
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