Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Why the United States issued a travel alert for the Riviera Maya

Puerto Vallarta (PVDN) - Playa del Carmen, the tourist jewel of Quintana Roo, is suffering from a violent wave that torments its businessmen, merchants, tourists, and ordinary citizens.

In 2022 Playa del Carmen registered 20% of the 1,472 homicides that were committed in the state. Intelligence reports point to municipal police officers and officials of the current government as cogs in the corrupting machinery that suffocates the popular tourist destination.

Names and faces have also been given to those responsible for violence, drug sales, land charges, and extortion. Those indicated are factions of the Gulf . . .

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