Colleges Warn Students About Mexico Travel

Because drug violence and kidnapping are on the rise in some areas, the U.S. State Department and universities around the country are warning college students headed for Mexico for some Spring break and partying. There has been a surge in drug related murder and mayhem south of the border and they are not necessarily telling the students not to go, but they are alerting them to what is happening there.

It sounds like a very good idea to me for them to stay away from Mexico. It has been on the news quite a bit the last few days and I would not want my kids going there for spring break. There have been Americans kidnapped and they should be aware of that. More than 100,000 high school and college age Americans travel to Mexican resort areas during Spring break each year.

Pipeline Attacks

Honda, Hershey's and other multinational companies temporarily shut down their factories in western Mexico after rebels attacked a key natural gas pipeline. The small, left-wing guerilla group that claimed responsibility for the explosions vowed to continue the attacks, while the Mexican government scrambled to increase security at strategic installations across Mexico. Security analysts and energy experts downplayed the attacks, noting they were relatively small in nature and mostly symbolic, having little effect on the economy.