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You'll be totally safe in Cancun, Cozumel, Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta, Los Cabos, Costa Maya, and the surrounding areas. (That list is not exhaustive)My grandparents moved from Laguna Beach to Puerto Vallarta in the early 60s. Beautiful house above the Rio Cuale. Sometimes we flew, sometimes we drive. We visited a lot.
I also drove up and down the Baja to the cape uncountable times surfing and had a boat we kept at La Playita for years(San Jose del Cabo)... camped anywhere and felt safe. Our boat got stolen. We were warned not to look for it.
Over the years, the bites, the mordida became more frequent and more expensive.
The final straw, driving my grandmothers car north of Mazatlan thru the SOnoran desert on Hwy 15, we got stopped by machine gun toting guys in the middle of the frikking desert at sunset. They stole the beer out our icechest in the trunk (we always carried food for dinner and some beer for our overnight motel stay in Ciudad Obregon). They could have just as easily stolen the car and dumped our bodies in the desert.
Thefts from surfers don't make headlines, but being carjacked on the highway, losing everything, doesn't make headlines. Getting killed resisting does. Recenlty 3 surfers got killed on Baja for the tires on their truck. A cartel works out of Tijuana running drugs and migrants north in pangas... nobody along that coast is safe anymore.
https://apnews.com/article/mexico-missing-foreigne...According to data from the U.S. State Department, between January 2022 and June 2022, there were 115 deaths of U.S. citizens, of which 25 were homicides.
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-killed-mexico-h... https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/americas/mexico-baj...https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gulf-cartel-a....
