Mexico: drug traffickers settle their scores among tourists

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A.Vahramian, B. Laigle, P. Contreras – France 2

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In Mexico, several regulations of accounts and shootings between drug traffickers took place on tourist beaches, such as that of Cancun. The national guard is now present among tourists.

Every year, thousands of tourists visit the Riviera Maya in Mexico. But sometimes the dream vacation turns into a nightmare. Ofs pictures of CCTV on the beach of a large hotel complex, are staggering. We can see men armed with assault rifles, chasing two drug traffickers in the midst of tourists.

At the foot of the hotel, they execute a first man and shoot the second. Dozens of customers take refuge in the lobby, in swimsuits. A stray bullet injures an entrepreneur, one of the 40 million Americans who travel to Mexico each year. Tulum, a seaside resort popular with tourists, is today crisscrossed by the police. He y To 10 days, two tourists, caught in a shootout between drug traffickers, died in a restaurant in the city.

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