Mike Vondruska is a former short term resident of Catemaco, who at one time, was involved in the kayak business on the Malecon. He now operates a Veracruz Tour business, so of course he has a selfish agenda. Nevertheless, the comments he recently made on his blog, are a good defensive read about the current situation and I would suggest forwarding the link to anyone who is interested in Veracruz.
Veracruz Hits the News
October 3rd, 2011
Yes, the city of Veracruz sure did get some attention this past week. Killings, Killings, Killings. Dead bodies dumped in the street.
So now the word is,
“Don’t go to Mexico!”
“Don’t go to Veracruz!”
Incidentally, I do not know of a single US tourist having been killed in 10 years on the principal gulf coast highway #180 running from Brownsville, Texas to Cancun.
But I did find the curious item of Texas having had 3,071 traffic deaths in 2009, with almost half on its rural, non-interstate roads which you need to travel to get to Brownsville.
