On Saturday, March 13, 2010 a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband and another person were shot to death near the international bridge linking Ciudad Juarez with El Paso. These shootings prompted the following travel warning and departure bulletin from the US Department of State.
March 14, 2010
The Department of State has issued this Travel Warning to inform U.S. citizens traveling to and living in Mexico of concerns about the security situation in Mexico, and that it has authorized the departure of the dependents of U.S. government personnel from U.S. consulates in the Northern Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros until April 12. Family members of US Government personnel assigned to other areas of Mexico outside the Mexican border states are not affected by this departure measure. This Travel Warning supercedes that of February 22, 2010, and announces the authorized departure of some dependents and updates security incidents.
Violence in Northern Mexico
U.S. citizens are urged to be especially aware of safety and security concerns when visiting the border region.
The U.S. State Department has issued a warning to alert U.S. citizens to the continuing unsettled public security situation along the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
