Mexico City taxis

Hailing a taxi on the streets of Mexico City is increasingly risky, according to the American Embassy there. In 2009, 228 American citizens reported that their passports were stolen while riding in a Mexico City cab. The total number of robberies may have been much higher, since only passport thefts must be reported.

The U.S. State Department, for its part, has reiterated its warnings against traveling to Mexico’s border cities as well as to Culiacan, reported headquarters of narcotics smuggling gangs, and to Michoacán, a state in the center of the country battered by battles between different gangs.

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Jimm Budd

Reporting from Mexico City

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