U.S. State Department Is Urging Americans To Avoid Travel To These 6 Mexican States

Another travel advisory from the U.S. government has been released regarding many regions in Mexico.

The Department of State advises Americans to stay away from visiting Baja California and the surrounding Mexican cities of Tijuana, Ensenada, and Rosarito. They further mention that American nationals who encounter crime while traveling in Mexico will not be helped by the American authorities.

“Violent crime — such as homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery — is widespread and common in Mexico. The U.S. government has limited ability to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens in many areas of Mexico,” reads the advisory.

In a statement regarding the current rise in violence, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador claims that cartel and gang members “attacked the civilian, innocent population like a sort of revenge. It wasn’t just a clash between two groups, but it got to the point where they began to shoot civilians, and innocent people. That is the most unfortunate thing in this affair.”

Related: Is it safe to travel to Mexico Now? (General Safety Update for 2022)

Places in Mexico Americans are urged not to travel to:

• Colima state – crime and kidnapping
• Guerrero state – crime
• Michoacan state – crime and kidnapping
• Sinaloa state – crime and kidnapping
• Tamaulipas State – crime and kidnapping
• Zacatecas State – crime and kidnapping

Places in Mexico Americans should reconsider traveling to:

• Baja California state – crime and kidnapping
• Chihuahua state – crime and kidnapping
• Durango state – crime
• Guanajuato state – crime and kidnapping
• Jalisco state – crime and kidnapping
• Morelos state – crime
• Sonora state – crime and kidnapping

Americans should be extremely cautious when traveling to these Mexican states:

• Aguascalientes state – crime
• Baja California Sur state – crime
• Chiapas state – crime
• Coahuila state – crime
• Hidalgo state – crime
• Mexico City – crime
• Mexico State – crime
• Nayarit state – crime
• Nuevo Leon state – crime and kidnapping
• Oaxaca state – crime
• Puebla state – crime and kidnapping
• queretaro state – crime
• Quintana Roo state – crime and kidnapping
• San Luis Potosi state – crime and kidnapping
• Tabasco state – crime
• Tlaxcala state – crime
• Veracruz state – crime