Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico wants to convert island penal colony off Vallarta-Nayarit coast into tourist attraction

Mexican officials said ferries and cruise ships may soon be visiting the former Isla Marias prison, after the last island penal colony in the Americas was closed and turned into an environmental education center in 2019.

The education camp hasn’t gone very well — only 40 youths have been trained on the island — and the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is now trying a different tack, because the island hasn’t been offsetting the costs associated with keeping it open.

Officials said Saturday they are planning to build a dock for . . .

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