An American woman and a man from Belize have been killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday.
Prosecutors in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo stressed the American woman had no connection to an alleged drug dealer also killed in the shooting Friday night. Prosecutors didn’t provide the woman’s name or hometown, and the U.S. Embassy did not respond to a request for comment.
The woman may have simply been caught in the crossfire. Prosecutors denied reports in local media that the two may have been a couple, saying a photo of the Belizean man showed him with a completely different woman.
The resorts in that area are behind guarded walls. The woman, judging by the article, was not in resort, but in Tulum city/town, and likely not in those historical ruins.
Kinda doesn’t make sense to travel to 1000s of miles to a country and spend it all behind the walls of some artificial, hermetically sealed resort. Kinda defeats the purpose
I’m there literally right now. If you want to escape the cold of a Canadian winter and hang out in the sun by the beach, while having your food and drinks be a non concern for you and your family for a week it makes sense. It’s not how I’ve travelled most of my life but it’s not a bad way to break up the winter.
It’s absolutely fucked watching the waste this creates though. Watching people toss full plates of food is gross.
The only reason for such a vacation is because it’s cheap since you can exploit the extreme wealth disparity.
There are other well guarded touristy places, like those Maya ruins, cenotes, etc. when travel into such country, one has to know where it is safe, and where it is not. Those areas are quite visibly separated in that place of Mexico.
You can walk down the beach where it’s open to anyone. It was a really nice place. I’d rather get shot there than in San Diego or Miami if I had to choose.