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	<title>Is It Safe To Travel To Mexico?</title>
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		<title>Gadling&#8217;s Safest Travel Destinations in Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Popular travel news website Gadling recently released a list of the safest destinations to visit in Mexico.  The list includes popular tourist destinations such as the Yucatan, which encompasses the resort beach towns of Cancun, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen as well as the archaeological wonders of Chichen Itza and the metropolitan city of Merida.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Miguel de Allende: Far Cry from the Mexico of CNN</title>
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Ron Erskine recently profiled one of Mexico’s safest places, a colonial town rich with Mexican history and as charming as a “hilltop Tuscan town… or perch in Provence, France.”  San Miguel de Allende is famous in Mexican history as the birthplace of the Mexican War of Independence.  Almost 200 years later, it is an expatriate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing It Safe In Mexico in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in The Washington Post offers a great, updated guide to traveling safe in Mexico, along with a fair compendium of facts, statistics, and quotes from official and non-official sources.  An estimated 4.7 million Americans visited Mexico from January to October 2011.  From the article:
Of 2,500 municipalities (what we call counties), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://isitsafetotraveltomexico.com/2011/12/26/playing-it-safe-in-mexico-in-2012/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=playing-it-safe-in-mexico-in-2012</link>
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		<title>Mexico is Safer than the Headlines Suggest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Christine Delsol of the San Francisco Chronicle asked recently, “Quick &#8211; which national capital has the higher murder rate: Mexico City or Washington, D.C.?”  
If you happen to base your answer on recent headlines and news coverage, your answer will probably be Mexico City.  But in fact, Mexico City&#8217;s drug-related-homicide rate per 100,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigation shows U.S. &#8211; Mexico Border is Safer than Critics Say</title>
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Despite the bloody picture that many U.S. politicians have painted – a USA Today special analysis found that rates of violent crime along the U.S.-Mexico border have been falling for years, even prior to the U.S. security buildup.  It looks like those famous quotes from U.S. politicians, such as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s warning that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://isitsafetotraveltomexico.com/2011/07/18/investigation-shows-u-s-mexico-border-is-safer-than-critics-say/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=investigation-shows-u-s-mexico-border-is-safer-than-critics-say</link>
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		<title>A Sobering but Fair Take on the Safety Debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Mexican resident and educator Allan Wall gives a fair take on the Mexican safety debate at Mexidata, acknowledging Mexico&#8217;s violence problem and the sobering statistics of deaths in border towns like Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana. He also acknowledges that more Americans were killed in cartel related violence in 2010 (reportedly 108) than in years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://isitsafetotraveltomexico.com/2011/06/28/a-sobering-but-fair-take-on-the-safety-debate/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-sobering-but-fair-take-on-the-safety-debate</link>
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		<title>In Perspective: Safety in the U.S. Versus Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of news coverage about violence in Mexico, very  little of it bothering to note that Mexico is a huge country with  thirty-some states and that a) almost all of that violence is  narco-related and b) you can count the number of tourists affected on  one hand.
Here is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://isitsafetotraveltomexico.com/2011/05/31/in-perspective-safety-in-the-u-s-versus-mexico/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=in-perspective-safety-in-the-u-s-versus-mexico</link>
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		<title>More Safe Mexico Destinations Than You Think</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are more safe destinations in Mexico than you might think, according to USA Today&#8217;s Travel Column &#8220;Destinations.&#8221;   Lamenting Mexico&#8217;s bad press situation which makes tourists think they&#8217;re &#8220;guaranteed to get caught in drug cartel crossfire just about anywhere,&#8221; the USA Today article cites some of the recent recommendations sprouting up from various travel experts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Travel on Why You Should Go To Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Reid&#8217;s recent article for CNN Travel discusses Mexican tourism&#8217;s big PR problem &#8211; what we all know, the escalating drug war and gory media reports of violence.  He notes the U.S. State Department&#8217;s travel advisory&#8217;s recent expansion to 14 of Mexico&#8217;s 31 states doesn&#8217;t help matters either.  Yet, says Reid,
It&#8217;s in the 17 of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://isitsafetotraveltomexico.com/2011/05/11/cnn-travel-on-why-you-should-go-to-mexico/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=cnn-travel-on-why-you-should-go-to-mexico</link>
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		<title>Sunset Magazine&#8217;s 5 Best Mexican Escapes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunset Magazine recently published their list of the 5 best places to visit in Mexico, titled &#8220;5 (Safe) Mexican Escapes.&#8221;  Their list is as follows:
1. Puerto Vallarta/Sayulita:  Popular beach city, and a little north, another beautiful beach city popular with surfers and expats.
2. Mexico City: Mexico&#8217;s capital, and a world-class, metropolitan city.
3. Oaxaca: A colonial [...]]]></description>
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