Mexican Drug War Causes Greater Threat to Americans

From the WSJ:

• For the first time in Mexico's drug war, the U.S. government said its employees and citizens could be the targets of drug gangs in three Mexican states, a disclosure that could signal danger for Americans south of the border.

• Last year, 107 American citizens were victims of homicide in Mexico, according to the State Department, up from 77 homicides the year before.

• This year has included some grisly slayings of Americans. In January, Nancy Davis, a 59-year-old missionary was shot in the head after being ambushed in her car near San Fernando. Her husband raced her car across a border bridge against traffic into Texas, where she later died. And last year David Hartley, an American riding a jet ski on the Mexican side of a lake on the Texas border was abducted, his body never found. Shortly afterward, the severed head of a detective on the case was found in front of a Mexican army barracks.

This warning is in addition to several other warnings from the US in regards to American tourists. Unbeknownst to many Americans is the fact that several tourist towns like Acapulco and Zihuatanejo (Andy Dufresne's hometown, I hope he and Red are safe) have experienced sever drug war violence in the past couple of years.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703518704576259332428064652.html