News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Turmoil slows tourism

Ongoing protest over election has hurt revenue source in capital

By MARION LLOYD
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Foreign Service

MEXICO CITY - Taxi muggings. Corrupt cops. Infamous smog.

If the Mexican capital didn't have enough image problems for tourists, here's one more: a ragtag protest camp stretching for miles along the city's cultural corridor. The 12 day -old street blockades orchestrated by the leftist presidential challenger, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have cost the city's tourism industry $12.5 million a day, according to the Mexico City Hotel Association.

And they warn the situation could worsen if the standoff isn't resolved soon.

posted by missionaryman | 5:30 AM

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