Businessmen from different tourist spots in the country considered that the main reasons that contribute to the registration of increases in crimes closely related to drug trafficking in these tourist areas have been unemployment, a low budget and a failed security strategy.
Carmen Joaquín, a member of the Coparmex National Tourism Commission, said that some of the states suffered “the perfect storm” because they have the problem of unemployment, which caused the pandemic and has not yet recovered, lack of budget and health.
“The budget has to be stretched as much as possible to meet all these needs, which if we see it from the perspective of gravity is life or death (…) The tourist states are in a situation where there could be an extraordinary strategy of there is no security with what to execute it ”, indicated the also president of the Business Coordinating Council of Cozumel, Quintana Roo.
According to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System, in Benito Juárez, whose municipal seat is Cancún, there was an increase of 23.3% in drug dealing if the investigation folders from January to September 2020 (253) are compared with 2021 (312).
While in Tulum, intentional homicide rose 80.5% and drug dealing 100%.
For his part, the president of the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) Tijuana, Roberto Rosas said that some areas of the state of Baja California have been hit by crime.
“We definitely cannot take our finger off the line on the insecurity that we have experienced during the last two years and that unfortunately continues to grow (…) It continues to be seen that the area is increasingly violent, not only on the issue of drug dealing and malicious homicides , but also the robberies are beginning ”, he said.
Data from the State Security Guard speak that there have been (since January), until October 28, 1,626 intentional homicides in Tijuana, Rosas said.
Violence in Quintana Roo
Two alleged drug dealers died on Thursday after being shot on the beach of an exclusive neighboring hotel in Cancun, the main tourist destination in the Mexican Caribbean, the local prosecutor’s office reported.
“There was a confrontation between members of antagonistic groups of drug dealers on a beach in Bahía Petempich, Puerto Morelos. Two of them lost their lives in the place. There are no serious injuries,” reported the Quintana Roo prosecutor’s office (east) on Twitter .
The events took place in the beach area of the Hyatt Riviera hotel, which is part of the luxurious resorts of the Mexican Caribbean.
Some armed men came shooting, ”tweeted Mike Sington, executive of the American network NBC Universal, who was at the scene.
Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx