New Travel Warning

richdoe

Guest
Great, just when our RV group is preparing to travel to Rocky Point, the U.S. issues a new travel warning for Sonora and PP. Was there an actual event, or is this just a re-issue of a long-standing warning?

We will be crossing on Feb. 1st and staying for ten days at the Playa Bonita resort.

Richard
 

mis2810

Guest
I saw it this morning on the news. It specifically targeted Rocky Point. I haven't heard about any specific incidents. Just more BS to keep US vacationers $$$ in the US, IMHO. The warning was ridiculous. It said don't go out at night and to stay on the main highway. The highway part I get, but don't go out at night? LOL
 

mexicoruss

Lovin it in RP!
Nothing has happened new for the USA to warn about except it is 2016 just before spring breakers are making plans.

As a matter of fact I noticed 1 thing that should have been removed as it references the "ad hoc" road blocks in Vicam, that issue has been resolved between the Yaqui Indians and the Governors office in Hermosillo.

So the warning looks like an aggregate work which just keeps getting added to and never really edited to reflect the reality.
 

azdiva

Guest
Spring Breakers? Whoa Amigos, The Big Kahuna here is Pope Francis visit to Juarez in February. It will probably
be in the hundreds of thousands!
 

Roberto

Guest
The thing about it is if there was no warning and something bad happened involving visitors and the mafia there would be alot of bitchng that there should have been a warning. People need to take responsibility to keep informed not wait for someone else to tell them.
 

jerry

Guest
Some wonder why the warning now? The answer according to a Hermosillo reporter is the new governor is shockingly honest.No one knows how to handle her.She requested american(Dea/cia?) help on cartel matters and when we saw what they had on the complete control of the three levels of government agencies plus the new information that the Army has been compromised in the corridor including Puerto Penasco our state department decided to cover their asses.


In Sonora, while Gov. Pavlovich Claudia entertains to demonstrate the alleged corruption of its predecessors, the Sinaloa cartel and the Beltran Leyva brothers spread terror. Although divided, the two organizations have managed to infiltrate the army and police commanders, according to the report of the Tijuana weekly Zeta

From: ZETA Research
Day of publication: 14/01/2016

Desierto de Altar, Sonora.- The war against drug trafficking in Sonora, one of the states with the highest incidence in the commission of federal crimes in the country, has become an octopus of organized crime, so hard to fight for authorities Mexican, that their US counterparts have offered help to strengthen the intelligence work.


In addition to the traffic of drugs for domestic consumption and its introduction to the American Union, criminal groups perform wide range of illegal activities such as trafficking, kidnapping of migrants, oil theft, arms trafficking and murder, counting with protection of some military commanders in the region.

Friendly fire and intestine among various factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and organizing them against the Beltran Leyva brothers remain in a state of anxiety to the villagers, from Navojoa on the border with the state of Sinaloa, to San Luis Rio Colorado, adjacent to Baja California.

Due to the length of the Sonoran territory and the lack of human elements and materials to alleviate the problem, the Federal Government actions have focused on the assurance of drugs by land, sea and air transport drug gangs and hordes of "burreros" to back backpacking travel through the desert to deliver their loads across the line.

Faced with this nebulous situation, the January 4, 2016 security authorities on both sides of the border met in Hermosillo to announce the agreement to establish a bilateral agenda for joint participation and combat crime in the region.

The US government had already shown concern by ensuring more-in some occasion that the Sonora-Arizona corridor is "the primary route used to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States."

Meanwhile, the current state administration, four months after the PRI Pavlovich Claudia Arellano assumed the governorship, remains more concerned with demonstrating alleged corruption of its predecessors in the promise of giving more security and justice Sonora .
 
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JimMcG

Guest
"Foot-soldiers of the drug cartels, young, tough-looking men on bikes, patrol the blocks. Men in pick-up trucks with fully tinted windows and no license plates, drive up and down the one main road menacingly."

The last couple of times we have driven through Altar, there has always been a high end pickup truck with an agitated young man driving, positioning himself almost on our bumper at the main traffic light and following us through town to the outskirts.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/01/deadly-human-trafficking-business-mexico-border-160117073423022.html
 
Well I say not a good way to start a Vacation


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As over the last decade or so that these pre-spring-break warnings are regularly issued, it "doesn't stop me none." Not having been, say, dealing evil things in remote places at remote hours, I've done well so far . . .
 

jerry

Guest
On one hand the last time Chapo was caught the fighting for the plaza began again.On the other let's face it the cartels have huge investments in Puerto Penasco and have good reason not to start things up again.Now if Macho gets his new artificial leg working right all bets are off.
 

jerry

Guest
"Foot-soldiers of the drug cartels, young, tough-looking men on bikes, patrol the blocks. Men in pick-up trucks with fully tinted windows and no license plates, drive up and down the one main road menacingly."

The last couple of times we have driven through Altar, there has always been a high end pickup truck with an agitated young man driving, positioning himself almost on our bumper at the main traffic light and following us through town to the outskirts.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/01/deadly-human-trafficking-business-mexico-border-160117073423022.html
Jim, I have not gone that way for a few years after a "adventure" but will be going down with a guy looking to buy this http://www.whitneylandcompany.com/other_Mexico.htm. He found a note I wrote via a Google search on the road.....this will be interesting!
 
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