Topic - Safety

Last year, we published an article entitled Is Mexico Safe? in which we highlighted some findings from research about the causes of incidents to tourists in Mexico.
Late last month, the US State Department issued a travel advisory to inform American travelers of some of the risks posed by the continuing drug gang-land wars in Mexico.  […]

Mexico City’s airport is one of the country’s busiest outlets for over-the-counter currency exchange, and it’s also a bellwether of currency exchange rates; news programs often quote the retail rates being offered at the airport as a type of ‘exchange rate barometer’, particularly for trade between the Mexican Peso and US Dollar.
This week, a significant […]

Mexico is host to one of the most diverse natural habitats in the world.  Its flora and fauna are the fourth most varied and diverse on the planet, after those of Brazil, Colombia and Thailand.  To accompany this diversity, Mexico is also home to a huge variety of insects, arachnids, snakes and other wild creatures.
Most, with the exception […]

As highlighted in part one, a fight for control of lucrative drug-trade routes between South America and the USA is propelling a wave of drug-gang violence in certain places in Mexico.
The three cities most affected now are: Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana and Culiacan.  There have been brief flare-ups in other cities across Mexico, but these three […]

Mexico has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently, and we have received a few emails from people asking about the safety situation in Mexico.   This two-part blog gives a précis of the causes of the violence and examines how safe Mexico is for visitors.
The escalating criminal violence in Mexico reported in […]

Mexico City’s government recently launched a program to relicense all of the capital’s 35,000 taxis.  The program was implemented to improve the safety and quality of taxi services in the city, principally by weeding-out the so-called ‘pirate’ taxis: vehicles painted as cabs but without proper licensing or insurance.
The scheme issued official taxi drivers with new […]

Traffic has been flowing freely again on Avenida de la Reforma in Mexico City and the city’s Historic Center is returning to normal following the orderly decampment of protestors shortly before Mexico’s independence day celebrations on September 16th.
Tourists have returned to the historic center which includes the world’s second largest central square (after Moscow’s Red Square) […]