Why Some Latin Americans Are Fed Up With ‘Gringos’ Living in Their Countries

Police guard the exit of the Blue Parrot nightclub in Playa del Carmen, Mexico on Jan. 16, 2017. AP Photo

The subject of U.S. citizens receiving a less-than-warm welcome in neighboring countries isn’t a new one.

When John Woodhouse Audubon, son of the famous naturalist and painter John James Audubon, arrived at Cerro Gordo in Northern Mexico in 1849, he was all but run out of town.