US, Canada issue security alert for Los Cabos and La Paz, BCS

The governments of Canada and the United States person issued a information alert for travelers to Los Cabos (Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo) and La Paz pursuing a bid of convulsive incidents successful the authorities of Baja California Sur.

The alert comes aft respective reports of shootings and clashes betwixt civilians and constabulary passim past week. Three rider buses were besides acceptable connected occurrence successful Los Cabos connected April 24. 

Security Alert: Los Cabos and La Paz, Baja California Sur

Location: Cabo San Lucas, San Jose del Cabo, and La Paz, BCS

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— U.S. Consulate Tijuana (@ConsuladoUSATJ) April 25, 2025

On April 22, abstracted attacks successful the country surrounding Los Cabos claimed the lives of 3 high-ranking instrumentality enforcement officials, including 2 soldiers and the commandant of the Narcotics Unit of the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office, Ulises Omar Cota Montaño.

Both incidents are presumably related to the caller quality of “narcomantas,” oregon banners announcing cartel threats in La Paz and astatine the Los Cabos International Airport.

Antonio López Rodríguez, caput of the prosecutor’s bureau of the authorities of Baja California, said a broad probe is being carried out.

On Thursday, respective rider buses were acceptable connected occurrence successful the municipality of Los Cabos. According to the national Security Ministry (SSPC),  information agents from respective agencies were deployed to an cognition astatine a spot located successful the Arcos del Sol neighborhood, wherever respective individuals who whitethorn person participated successful the incidental were sheltering. In a property release, the SSPC announced that 4 men aged 22, 24, 25, and 29 were arrested, and 7 firearms, magazines, and cartridges were seized successful the operation. 

A question advisory is besides successful spot for Mazatlán and different areas successful Sinaloa, owed to an ongoing interior quality wrong the Sinaloa Cartel, which erupted pursuing the U.S. apprehension of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada successful July 2024.

According to section media reports, April 7 was the astir convulsive time of 2025 successful Sinaloa, with a full of 14 homicides, 9 of which occurred astatine a rehabilitation halfway successful Culiacán.

Authorities person besides reported threats against nationalist officials and expanding transgression enactment successful the area. Travelers are advised to workout accrued caution, debar crowds, show section media for authoritative updates and travel instructions from section authorities portion visiting Baja California Sur and Sinaloa.

With reports from El Heraldo de Saltillo, Infobae and Pax News