Mexico’s president says nation is secure to journey anyplace

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president claimed Wednesday that each nook of his nation is secure sufficient to journey to, regardless of persistently excessive homicide charges and areas stricken by the turf wars of drug gangs.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged there are “dangers” in some locations. However he claimed that “life goes on unchanged in the entire nation.”

“I keep that I, as president, or another individual, can go to any a part of the nation,” López Obrador stated. “Sure there are dangers in some areas greater than in others, in some cities greater than others, however life goes on unchanged in the entire nation.”

That contrasts with latest occasions just like the latest abduction 4 Individuals, and the killing of two, within the border metropolis of Matamoros. U.S. journey warnings that advise vacationers to utterly keep away from six of Mexico’s 32 states, and rethink journey to seven different states as a consequence of crime.

Mexico has suffered among the highest murder charges in latest historical past throughout the first 4 years of López Obrador’s administration, with solely a slight decline in 2022.

López Obrador has angrily rejected feedback final week by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Mexican authorities has misplaced management over elements of the nation. Blinken stated “I feel it’s truthful to say sure” when requested at a Senate listening to whether or not drug cartels management elements of Mexico.