US renews its travel alert for five states in Mexico

In the midst of a health emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic, the United States government updated the travel alert for Mexico in which it asks its citizens and officials not to travel to 5 entities in Mexico and reconsider travel to eleven more.

The State Department, through its embassy, ​​warns that organized crime groups attack and steal commercial ships, oil platforms, and supply ships, in the Bay of Campeche.

“Violent crime such as: homicide, kidnapping, theft of vehicles and theft, is widespread throughout the country. It is now known that armed criminal groups have . . .