Former FBI Official Warns Against Mexico Travel

Soldiers stand guard outside the Forensic Medical Service morgue building ahead of the transfer of the bodies of two of four Americans kidnapped by gunmen to the U.S. border, in Matamoros, Mexico, on March 9, 2023. Daniel Becerril/Reuters

A former senior FBI official has warned American youth not to visit Mexico, due to the dangerous routes before reaching their destination, after gang violence claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens this week.

Former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes said that the problem is that Americans have to travel through Mexico’s dangerous zones to reach their vacations destination, and this should be avoided.