Boycott Mexico, Cancun and Mayan Riveria?

It has been our intention to take a holiday in warm, sunny Mexico. I have been there before without Sweetie, in Acapulco. At that time, I was with friends in a privately owned condo and was strongly advised not to out alone after dark and not wear a lot of jewellery. I took that advise to heart.

When staying in a resort, on the other hand, one should feel safe. I know that when we were in Cuba in a resort we felt perfectly safe walking around at all hours of the day and night. Seems not to be the case in Mexico, even in the best resorts.

It is a question really, do we boycott an entire region because of the murder of two Canadian tourists.

You be the judge. Here's the story in short, although you can read it here.

Middle aged well off couple to on a trip to Playa del Carmen and stay in a 5 star resort. The purpose of this holiday is to celebrate their daughters' marriage.

After dinner they go to their room and the next morning are found dead with their throats slit from ear to ear.

The comedy of errors begins when the hotel asks the maids to clean the blood from the hallway floor because people are tracking it around. The maids then go on to clean the room across the hall, with the same cloths and mops, where two young Canadian women from Thunder Bay, Ontario are staying. They are actually on their way out to catch their plane home.

The Mexican police first say it is a Mafia hit and then claim the two Canadian women are the killers. This is the Keystone Cops at work.

What they are ignoring is this, a security guard who befriended the couple and was seen with them the evening before the discovery of their bodies and who has since disappeared.

The Attorney General of Quintana Roo is an idiot. His main goal is to protect the tourist industry in his region.

The two women who have been accused of being killers are asking the Canadian Government to implement a travel ban or at the very least issue a travel advisory to that region. I think they are right to ask that given what has occurred to them.

This story is now relegated to the back pages of MSM, too bad we don't have a Nancy Grace here in Canada.