Mexico suffers bad publicity from war with drug cartels | AHN

Mexico suffers bad publicity from war with drug cartels AHN

Mexico’s concern about a bad image internationally from its war with drug cartels rose again this week amid negative publicity in the United States.

Officials from the industry that brings about 22.5 million tourists to Mexico each year accused the United States of trying to protect its own tourist industry at the expense of its southern neighbor.

“They’re investing in the promotion of tourism in their own country,” Oralia Rice, tourism secretary in Mexico’s Sinaloa state, told the Mexican newspaper Vanguardia. Sinaloa has been a hot spot of violence between the Mexican Army and drug gangs recently.

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