#Recent shootings in cancun series#
There have been a series of brazen acts of violence along the Caribbean coast, the crown jewel of Mexico's tourism industry. The State Department posted a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory for Tamaulipas, the Mexican state the Americans were in when they were kidnapped. That warning came in the wake of the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico earlier this month. State Department issued a travel alert last month warning travelers to "exercise increased caution," especially after dark, at Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been plagued by drug gang violence in the past. The motive in that remains under investigation. tourist was shot in the leg in the nearby town of Puerto Morelos. Monday's killings came less than a week after a U.S. A vehicle of the attorney general's office leaves the Fiesta Americana hotel after people were gunned down near the beach of the hotel, according to local media, in Cancun, Mexico, April 3, 2023. Photos published by Reuters showed local police, the Mexican National Guard and a vehicle from the attorney general's office at the Fiesta Americana hotel. But gangs in Mexico frequently stake out exclusive areas where only they can sell drugs to tourists, and kill anyone selling drugs for a rival gang. The information offered Tuesday did not give any more details on the motive in the latest killings, in which two suspects were detained. He said the gangs' activities included drug dealing, kidnapping and extorting "protection money" from business owners, by threatening to attack or kill them if they didn't pay. Other guests told him they heard gunshots and that a gunman had been on the beach, he said.At the time, Hernández said the two "are trying to control what they call 'the marketplace' to carry out their criminal activities." Mike Sington, a Twitter user and former executive at NBC Universal, told Reuters by direct message that he was hiding with other guests of the resort in a dark area of the hotel and that staff had not explained what was happening. Targeted 'execution'Ī senior state official said a group of gunmen arrived by boat in pursuit of the men who were slain, in what another Mexican official said appeared to have been a targeted "execution." Several cartels are fighting for the area's lucrative retail drug trade, including the Jalisco cartel and a gang allied with the Gulf cartel. The attorney general's office went on to say that "there was a clash between rival groups of drug dealers on a beach" near the hotels.
The news site Notacaribe reported one person was injured at the scene after being hit with the handle of a weapon. The state police chief wrote in his Twitter account: "There are no seriously injured or kidnapped tourists." The attorney general's office in Quintana Roo state said nobody else was seriously injured in the gun battle, but did not specify if any other injuries occurred. The shooting occurred on the beach near the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun, an all-inclusive resort in Puerto Morelos that is popular with American tourists. Gunmen opened fire at a Cancun beach resort on Thursday, killing two people in what Mexican state officials called a confrontation between rival drug dealers that witnesses said forced tourists and hotel staff to hide for several hours.
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