Puerto Vallarta maintains safe status in recent U.S. travel updates

Puerto Vallarta has maintained its safety status in this week’s updated travel warnings for Mexico issued by the U.S. State Department.

While Jalisco state border regions along the states of Michoacán and Zacatecas remain under a warning by the U.S., these areas remain eight hours from Puerto Vallarta.

The State Department warns U.S. citizens have been the victims of violent crimes, such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery by organized criminal groups in various Mexican states, with 103 Americans killed in Mexico in 2015. While not disregarding 103 lives lost, there were over 8 million . . .