Mexico Angered by U.S. Travel Alert

[Rose Siding]

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's government reacted angrily on Thursday to a U.S. warning about travel along the border, and a top official said Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge failed to mention any such concerns in a meeting just last week.

The complaints by Interior Secretary Santiago Creel came after a U.S. State Department alert Wednesday expressed fear Mexico had lost control of drug-related violence in the north.

"U.S. citizens should be aware of the risk posed by the deteriorating security situation," the State Department advisory said, though it stopped short of urging Americans to avoid Mexico.

The alert was accompanied by a letter from U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza to Mexican Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez and Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha, expressing concern that drug-related violence and kidnappings on the Mexican side of the border would have a "chilling" effect on trade and tourism between the neighbors.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-mexico-us-travel-alert,0,1745858.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[alexisfree]

1. ok...dont go to canada...

don't travel to mexico, boycott france...venezuela is evil…and the list goes on and on…

[jmatthan]

2. As Bush cannot travel anywhere, so also citizens of US!!

eom

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. There have been a high number of American disappearances there.

A warning is probably warranted.

[HuckleB]

3. And we're supposed to feel safer in the US?

:wtf:

:shrug:

[b...]

5. oh, does mexico have a complaint?

ooh ooh, whassa matter lil mexico?
poor widdle mexico had it's feeling weelings hurt!

gentlemen, start the carpet bombing on mexico city, and work your way east, west, north and south to eliminate the weapons of mass disgruntlement.