Texas trooper issues stark travel warning to avoid traveling to ‘dangerous’ Mexico

A Texas trooper is warning People to rethink touring to Mexico right after three women of all ages vanished when crossing the border to provide apparel at a flea sector – joining the more than 500 US citizens now lacking in the place. 

Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, of the Texas Division of Community Security, explained to vacationers gearing up for Spring Break to be cautious when organizing holidays to the common travel place. 

‘Our division is urging any one traveling to Mexico, in particular spring breakers, to steer clear of these places, simply because appropriate now it is much too unsafe with the boost in violence and kidnappings in Mexico,’ Lieutenant Olivarez informed Fox Information. ‘I are not able to categorical enough to those pondering about touring to Mexico, particularly to spring breakers…to keep away from all those regions as substantially as doable.’ 

The warning comes after two sisters Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47, Marina Perez Rios, 48, the two of Peñitas, and their good friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53, went missing on February 24. 

Officers claimed they were traveling in a eco-friendly mid-1990s Chevy Silverado to a flea market in the town of Montemorelos, in Nuevo Leon condition – all-around 3 hrs from the border – and by no means returned. Peñitas is just a few hundred toes from the Rio Grande River.

It will come soon after the hugely publicized circumstance where four People in america have been kidnapped by a cartel right after touring into the nation for a tummy tuck. Their abduction was caught on video clip past 7 days and been given an avalanche of notice. But the destiny of the three girls, who have not been listened to from in about two weeks, continues to be a mystery.

Lieutenant Chris Olivarez (pictured) is ‘urging any individual traveling to Mexico, specially spring breakers, to stay clear of those people places, simply because suitable now it is far too dangerous with the enhance in violence and kidnappings’ 

Maritza Trinidad Perez Rios, 47, Marina Perez Rios, 48 both of Peñitas, and their close friend, Dora Alicia Cervantes Saenz, 53, (pictured) went lacking on February 24

They crossed into Mexico to market clothes at flea market a few several hours away from the border (pictured: Maritza and Marina) 

The sisters’ cousin Ludy Arredondo wrote on Facebook that they ‘do not have a solitary piece of information [and] the authorities do not say just about anything,’ as she and other individuals carry on to pray for their protected return. 

‘They do not have clues,’ she wrote. ‘PLEASE do not depart us by itself.

‘My cousins and their friend are women of all ages, personnel, dependable, moms of their children, noble, simple girls, they are Women of all ages WHO WENT TO Operate. Please close friends publish [and] share,’ she begged.  

The previous to hear from the ladies was one particular of their husbands who spoke to her by cellular phone even though she was touring in Mexico. He later claimed them lacking soon after rising involved when he couldn’t access her later on, the Peñitas Law enforcement Main Roel Bermea mentioned. 

‘Since he could not make contact about that weekend, he came in that Monday and noted it to us,’ Bermea claimed. 

Officers at the condition prosecutor’s place of work claimed they have been investigating the women’s disappearance given that Monday. Beyond that, officials in the US and Mexico have not said substantially about their pursuit of the a few. 

The FBI stated Friday it is mindful that two sisters from Peñitas, a small border town in Texas in close proximity to McAllen, and their pal have gone missing. Bermea stated their families have been in touch with Mexican authorities, who are investigating their disappearance. 

The a few women are amid a startling 550 Us citizens who have been described missing in Mexico, in accordance to general public information. This is a small part of the total 112,000 people lacking in the place – and is a small percentage of the tens of millions of US citizens who journey to Mexico every 12 months for holidays and do the job. 

But lots of family members of the People nonetheless missing are asking why their loved kinds haven’t been offered a bigger priority by Washington like the the latest kidnapping. 

Bermea said the women of all ages had been traveling in a green mid-1990s Chevy Silverado to a flea current market in the city of Montemorelos, in Nuevo Leon state (pictured Maritza) 

Officers at the point out prosecutor’s business office said they have been investigating the women’s disappearance given that Monday

The three girls are just 1 of hundreds who have been reported lacking in the nation that are still missing. There are 550 Individuals claimed lacking (pictured: Marina Rios) 

The partner of 1 of the gals spoke to her by mobile phone when she was touring in Mexico, but grew worried when he could not achieve her afterward (pictured: US-Mexico border) 

Lisa Torres, whose son Robert disappeared at 21, grew angry as she watched the protection of the four friends. 

‘I’m so angry I could not slumber, pondering about how my US authorities acted in Matamoros with the kidnappings,’ she wrote on Twitter. ‘This only confirms that my US authorities can enable, and they didn’t, in the circumstance of my son. WHY?’ 

A lawyer, Geovanni Barrios, whose son was abducted in Reynosa at 17, advised the Washington Submit: ‘We see that when the US federal government will make strong statements, there are results. But there are not only 4 Individuals disappeared in Mexico. We really do not see [the US government] earning these statements about the hundreds of other lacking People.’ 

Even though lots of households are nevertheless keeping onto hope their liked ones will reappear, they are resentful that they have not been afforded the enormous research and govt consideration like the 4 Individuals did. For most of the 112,000 missing in the place, the only kinds wanting for them are their desperate family members. 

 Latavia ‘Tay’ McGee and Eric James Williams both survived the practical experience. Shaeed Hakim Woodard and Zindell Zaquille Mckinley Brown had been killed by the cartel 

Users (pictured) of the Gulf Cartel’s Scorpions Team have been abandoned on a Matamoros avenue and accused by the prison corporation of being behind the kidnapping of 4 Us residents who traveled to the country for surgery 

Authorities deficiency manpower, products and education – and things are so poor that they are not even equipped to determine tens of thousands of bodies that have been observed. 

The 4 kidnapped People in america were caught in a drug cartel shootout in the border metropolis of Matamoros, and video footage showed them remaining hauled off in a pickup truck. The two survivors were identified Tuesday in a wooden shack near the Gulf Coastline.

This week’s enormous search for the four kidnapped Individuals concerned squads of Mexican troopers and Countrywide Guard troops.