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Generally a pretty safe area south of Cancun towards the Riviera Maya and Tulum.  Been through this area a few times.  

Hate to see tourists caught in the crossfire.  

2 dead in dramatic shootout near upscale Mexican resorts (msn.com)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A commando of drug gang gunmen on Thursday stormed ashore at a beach on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast in front of luxury hotels and executed two drug dealers from a rival gang.

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The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover at the resort of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun.

The two suspected drug dealers killed Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun earlier in the day, claiming it was now their territory.

“About 15 people arrived on the beach to assassinate two men who had showed up saying they were the new dealers in the area,” the head prosecutor of Quintana Roo state, Oscar Montes de Oca, told the Radio Formula station.

Montes de Oca’s office said earlier in a statement that “there was a clash between rival groups of drug dealers on a beach” near the hotels. Several cartels are fighting for the area’s lucrative retail drug trade, including the Jalisco cartel and the gang allied with the Gulf cartel.

Montes de Oca said one of the men targeted in the attack fled into one of the hotels before dying. The other was killed on the beach. He also said one person suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the attack, but authorities could not determine whether that person was a hotel employee or a guest because they were still undergoing medical treatment.

Gov. Carlos Joaquin said the commando wore ski masks and arrived by boat at the beach. Montes de Oca said they fled in a boat after the attack.

Joaquin called the attack “a serious blow to the development and security of the state ... putting the image of the state at grave risk.”

The shootings were the latest chapter in drug gang violence that has sullied the reputation of Mexico’s Caribbean coast as a once-tranquil oasis.

Guests at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun posted videos and photos of tourists hiding or nervously milling in the lobby and hallways of hotels during the incident.

Guests at the nearby Azul Beach Resort also posted videos of people taking shelter or gathering in the lobby. An employee who answered the phone at the hotel said the shooting occurred on the beach near the facility.

Mike Sington, a guest at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun, wrote in his Twitter account that “Guests are telling me they were playing volleyball on the beach, gunman approached firing gun. Everyone ran from beach and swimming pools. Staff hustled us into hidden rooms behind the kitchens.”

Sington tweeted, “I’ve never been so scared, literally shaking,” before adding, “I’m fine now, barricaded in my hotel room for the night, just trying to decompress.”

Rival cartels often kill another gang’s street-level dealers in Mexico to eliminate competition and ensure their drugs are sold first. It is not the first time that tourists have been caught in the crossfire of such battles.

The Puerto Morelos shooting comes two weeks after a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shootout in the beach town of Tulum.

A San Jose, California, woman born in India, Anjali Ryot, and German citizen Jennifer Henzold were apparently hit by crossfire from the Oct. 20 drug dealers’ shootout in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos.

Three other foreign tourists were wounded in the shooting at a street-side eatery that has some outdoor tables, right off Tulum’s main strip. They included two German men and a Dutch woman.

The German Foreign Office issued a travel advisory about the violence, advising its citizens “if you are currently in the Tulum or Playa del Carmen area, do not leave your secured hotel facilities.”

The Tulum gunfight also apparently broke out between two groups that operate street-level drug sales in the area, according to prosecutors.

Montes de Oca said eight suspects in the Tulum attack had been detained in possession of firearms.

There have been signs that the situation in Quintana Roo state, where all the resorts are located, was out of control months ago. In June, two men were shot to death on the beach in Tulum, and a third was wounded.

And in nearby Playa del Carmen, police stage a massive raid in October on the beach town’s restaurant-lined Quinta Avenida, detaining 26 suspects — most apparently for drug sales — after a city policewoman was shot to death and locked in the trunk of a car last week. Prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a suspect in that killing.

Crime “has gone up a little with extortion, with drug sales to foreigners and Mexicans,” the prosecutors office said about the raid.

The administration of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has pinned its hopes on the so-called Maya Riviera, where it has announced plans to build an international airport and a stop for the Maya train, which will run in a loop around the Yucatan peninsula.

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2 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

"All inclusive!!!"

Enjoy your trip to an amazing culture!

Gotta take in all the sights and sounds!

It actually is a pretty cool culture and the people are great for the most part.  Generally, the authorities don't allow the turf war to occur in the tourist areas.  They won't take kindly to the fact the cartel stormed the beach of an AI for a hit on a new dealer.

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1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

Mexico…stay on the resort or stay home.

Fuck that if I knew I was going to have to stay at some resort the whole time I was on a trip I would never go . The reason people with lives go on vacation is to explore new places and experience how real people live in them.  

First thing I have done in any place I have gone is get a rental car /jeep /scooter etc and go explore the town and surrounding shit

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I’ve been to MeHiCo about a half dozen times.  Only twice can I remember staying on the resort. A good resort concierge will be able to hook you up with somebody that can bring you to do whatever you want relatively safely.  Now, depending on your plans (schemes) go with a. Bud or two and leave the women at the pool.

Honestly, third world shitholes are worth experiencing if you aren’t stupid.

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2 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

Didn't this happen at a resort??:lol:

 

1 hour ago, Zambroski said:

Sounds like it was outside the resorts at one of the little beach shanty towns.  

Nope, they stormed the beach of an AI like it was Normandy.

The two suspected drug dealers killed Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun earlier in the day, claiming it was now their territory.

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40 minutes ago, teamgreen02 said:

 

Nope, they stormed the beach of an AI like it was Normandy.

The two suspected drug dealers killed Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun earlier in the day, claiming it was now their territory.

Thats what I read, 15 guys stormed the beach out of a boat and shot the shit out of 2 guys

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21 hours ago, Rigid1 said:

Thats what I read, 15 guys stormed the beach out of a boat and shot the shit out of 2 guys

Two weeks ago three guys showed up in town. All from chitown. They walked into an apartment and shot a guy 8 times. Dumb ass didn’t pay his drug bill. No loss. He was a major middle guy in town. A woman came down from upstairs right after the hit. One of the guys politely said excuse me ma’am and walked around her. Town is going to shit. 

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11 hours ago, spin_dry said:

Two weeks ago three guys showed up in town. All from chitown. They walked into an apartment and shot a guy 8 times. Dumb ass didn’t pay his drug bill. No loss. He was a major middle guy in town. A woman came down from upstairs right after the hit. One of the guys politely said excuse me ma’am and walked around her. Town is going to shit. 

As long as these trigger men keep the tourists and innocents out of the cross hairs who gives a fuck about some POS dealer…one less shitbag taking up space in prison.🤷🏻

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