Mexico’s tourism boom is proof the country is safe to travel, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in an attempt to give reassurances after the kidnapping of four Americans set off calls by U.S. lawmakers to crack down on drug cartels.
The president said Monday than more U.S. citizens than ever have come to live in Mexico while visitors to Cancun, the country’s top tourist destination, are at a record level. Doubts about Mexico’s security are “vile” manipulation attempts, he said, criticizing the U.S. State Department for its warnings about traveling in much of the Latin American country.
“Mexico is safer than than the United States and there’s no security problem that prevents travel,” AMLO, as the president is known, said during his daily press briefing.
