{"id":6043,"date":"2011-01-11T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2011-01-11T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T09:09:00","slug":"cruising-mexico-acapulco-crime-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=6043","title":{"rendered":"What's to Come of Cruising in Mexico?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let us begin by saying Mexico is one of our favorite places to visit and, no, that’s not like saying “Some of my best friends are\u2026[fill in the blank].” We love Mexico<\/a>. Its people. Its music. Its customs. Its crafts. Its resilience. Its ever-expanding cruise-ship ports.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What we don’t like is what we’re hearing, more and more. It starts with fear. Cruise-ship passengers are becoming more afraid of visiting Mexico, with good reason, and if it continues it’s the country that is going to suffer, profoundly. Who can blame tourists for being afraid when they hear that 15 headless bodies were found in Acapulco<\/a>, which was once the absolute jewel of Mexico’s Pacific shoreline?<\/p>\n

Why would a visitor choose to go to a country \u2014 even when it’s an enormous country of 111 million people \u2014 where the drug wars are fought in not just the border towns but seemingly everywhere. Where the battles are between wealthy drug lords and sometimes-corrupt law enforcement officials who are underpaid and undermanned?<\/p>\n

The impact on cruise-ship passengers, some of whom have already tired of sailing the same old ports on the Mexican Riviera, seems to be growing. The Sapphire Princess<\/a> \"\"<\/a>delayed its arrival in Acapulco because of a political rally. However, there are two sides. There are always two sides. Comments on Cruise Critic<\/a> range from “They will not hesitate to shoot for no reason\u2026tourists and innocent locals can be victims of cross-fire” to “We saw some fantastic sites [during a political rally] and never felt in danger.”<\/p>\n

Right now, Acapulco is getting shelled by public opinion. We have to admit, on our last cruise to Acapulco, we said we didn’t care if we came back\u2026despite the stunning beauty of its bay. It just didn’t have a good feel.<\/p>\n

But the reality is that life’s all about being in the right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time. Yesterday, we went for a walk, and a car backing slowly out of a driveway as we passed suddenly accelerated, stopping only when we hammered on the trunk. Sorry, the driver said, didn’t see you. This happened in a quiet, gated community, not a busy street.<\/p>\n

And not Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let us begin by saying Mexico is one of our favorite places to visit and, no, that’s not like saying “Some of my best friends are\u2026[fill in the blank].” We love Mexico. Its people. Its music. Its customs. Its crafts. Its resilience. Its ever-expanding cruise-ship ports. What we don’t like is what we’re hearing, more… Continue reading What's to Come of Cruising in Mexico?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,31,19,15],"tags":[106,86,35,102,64],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ports","category-ships","category-stories","tag-acapulco","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-mexico","tag-princess-cruise","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}