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, November 30, 2007

With Baja visits down, tourism chiefs plead for better safety

By Diane Lindquist

UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

9:24 p.m. November 29, 2007

After the number of Baja California visitors dipped over the Thanksgiving holiday, tourism industry representatives are urging state officials to take swift and decisive measures to better protect American tourists who have been targets of recent road attacks.

Tourism officials are scheduled to meet with state officials Friday in Tijuana.

Reports of at least six violent armed assaults on American travelers along Baja California's coastal highway in recent months have struck fear in frequent visitors, with many vowing never to come to the state again. Some, but not all, of the cases have been determined by authorities as credible accounts.

The attacks, staged in some instances by paramilitary-style criminals driving vehicles with flashing lights and sirens, could significantly hurt the state's tourism sector, which last year attracted 25 million people, including repeat visitors.

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