Its a shame the americans and the media cast mexico beaches as unsafe....99% of the countries violence is on the border towns of mexico/u.s border...cartels are killing each other...not american tourists!

To CHRIS: You must either live in a dream world (maybe drug-induced), or you don't pay attention to the news.
Drug-cartel violence has expanded way beyond just the US - Mexican border cities.

US citizens have been kidnapped/killed in Cancun, Cozumel, Mexico City, and most recently in Acapulco and Pacific-Coast tourist cities.

Did you not hear/see that US tourists were recently shot in their taxis as a display of cartel dominance?

There is no place in Mexico that is safe right now. Death is random as well as directed toward a target. Collateral damage happens anywhere there is some beef between these diablos. We have a third world country for a neighbor that has a aa higher death rate than Afghanistan. Anyone who believes their trip to Cancun or Cabo is just too bitchin to worry about safety in a tourist mecca in downright stupid. I am real sorry to say that Mexico is not the fun safe place it was when it got it's reputation for unforgettably great trips that fostered outrageous stories about how cool it is to do. Yah, go to Mexico and whoop it up come home and plan to take more friends along next year. That's how it was. Wake up young people, it's not that way any more. I was raised walking the streets of Juarez without an adult when I was twelve. I had friends in Zaragosa. One an old man, an Ysleta Indian taught me to lay block when I was eleven. There was a roadside cantina with a combined motel and whorehouse I had my first beer in. The owner Rosa called me Leche and teased I could only have milk but gave me the beer when my older friends insisted. For over seven years, till i moved to Phoenix she always called me Leche when I walked in the bar. To me Mexico was second nature, the air stunk around the bridge where we crossed over the Rio Grande driving into Zaragosa but that was just a smell, the smiles on the other side of the bridge were the same as at home or school. Mexico was a good place to be then. That was in the early sixties. Back in 2004 I drove to a small town deep in Baja to live there. The first thing I felt uncomfortable with was the military stops every 60 to 80 miles. Some seemed cool, some not. At night the stops where downright creepy. Dudes exchanging conspiratorial looks, pushing me away from my car. And in town the people were not so nice as I remembered. Having to be told I couldn't help my friend sweep her patio because she would be reported for having an American doing a job a Mexican should be getting paid to do was a special moment. We seem to be good for our money but not much more. Your life? Not a concern. All cruise lines should stop Mexican stops till Calderon breaks the grip the druglords have on that country. We should put economic sanctions on Mexico till such time that is done. And Americans that smoke pot should stop buying pot that has been compressed (a sure sign it was smuggled from Mexico). This is serious stuff. Beheading people right in our own back yard. Remember how deplorable it was when the Middle East Beheadings were in the news? People are being beheaded in droves less than ten minutes from American soil. We need to be more alarmed. Period.