US issues travel advisory for Tamaulipas after high-profile border incidents

The United States authorities has issued a question advisory recommending against question to respective areas successful the bluish authorities of Tamaulipas owed to “increasingly predominant weapon battles” and illegally manufactured improvised explosive devices (IEDs) which person been recovered successful respective parts of the state.

On Jan. 27, the U.S. question advisory was raised to Level 4 for Tamaulipas, which borders Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. The alert warns that convulsive encounters person occurred “in and astir Reynosa successful the precocious nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours.” It besides explained that IEDs person been recovered “in and astir the country of Reynosa, Rio Bravo, Valle Hermoso, and San Fernando on ungraded and secondary roads.”

The advisory was issued connected Jan. 27, the aforesaid time that Fox quality reported U.S. Border Patrol agents exchanged gunfire with suspected cartel members.

The section consulate said that connected Jan. 23, an IED destroyed an authoritative conveyance belonging to the National Water Commission (Conagua) successful Rio Bravo, injuring its occupants.

The U.S. authorities has ordered its employees “to debar each question successful and astir Reynosa and Rio Bravo extracurricular of daylight hours and to debar ungraded roads passim Tamaulipas.”

On Monday, the U.S. Consulate successful Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, besides concisely issued a structure successful spot bid aft receiving reports of gunfights successful the city. The bid was lifted aboriginal the aforesaid day.

The U.S. Consulate successful Nuevo Laredo issued a structure successful spot bid connected Monday aft gunfights were reported successful respective areas of the city. (File photo)

The question advisory for Tamaulipas has not importantly affected tourism, which is mostly regional, according to authorities Tourism Minister Benjamín Hernández Rodríguez.

Hernández noted that Tamaulipas has been the taxable of specified alerts earlier without seeing impacts connected tourism. Hunting and aesculapian tourism are the main draws of travelers to the state, and Hernández said that Tamaulipas’ information strategies warrant information for tourists.

The U.S. State Department presently has Level 4 question advisories successful spot for six Mexican states: Zacatecas, Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas.

In contrast, Campeche and Yucatán successful the Mexican Caribbean are the lone Mexican states currently  astatine Level 1, the lowest advisory from the State Department. Visitors to those areas are recommended to “exercise mean precautions.”

With reports from Milenio