The U.S. State Department has added Jalisco, Nayarit, San Luis Potosi, Sonora and Zacatecas to its list of states in Mexico where travel should be avoided. Puerto Vallarta is in Jalisco and the increasingly popular Riviera Nayarit in Nayarit. Other states included in the list are Tamaulipas and Michoacán plus parts of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sinaloa, Durango, Baja California and Nuevo Leon. Violence is the result of gangs of narcotics smugglers fighting for control in these various areas. They shoot at each other and anybody else who may be in the way.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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