Head of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Quintana Roo, Óscar Montes de Oca Rosales, has previously stated that most of the homicides in the state stem from real-estate development project disputes. Quintana Roo’s economic activity has made it a target of criminal groups in the country, with local authorities and journalistic investigations uncovering how organized crime has infiltrated and co-opted the tourism industry. Cancun, the most well-known tourist city in the region, hosted 8 million visitors in 2019, and tourism represented 46.8% of the local GDP in the same year. In 2019, the state hosted over 17 million tourists, 13.5 million of those visitors from abroad.
As an entrance to the Mexican Caribbean, its beaches and resorts have made the state a beacon of international tourism, attracting millions of foreign vacationers every year.īefore the pandemic, tourism was one of the largest economic generators in the region. Quintana Roo is located on Mexico’s southeastern Yucatan peninsula.
Kidnappings as well have become more frequent, with Quintana Roo experiencing the second highest kidnapping rate in the country, after having the 11th highest amount of kidnappings nationwide in 2020.Īccording to the watchdog, other crimes such as violent robbery and extortion remain high, but their levels have dropped since 2020. Security operation at San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Oaxaca. It also experiences the highest amount of reported rapes in the coutnry.Īdditionally, while the homicide rate has remained the same (Quintana Roo ranks ninth overall in homicides nationally and has since 2020), the state experiences the highest rate of manslaughter cases in the country. And over Easter weekend, three separate murders took place in different locations around Cancun.Īccording to the latest report (2021) from the Security and Gender Observatory of Quintana Roo (OSEGE), the state has witnessed the fourth highest number of femicides in Mexico, sliding from 13th place in 2020. Just two months after the murder of the Canadians, assailants shot up a bar in Cancun, killing a security guard and wounding three people, including a Brazilian citizen. Violence rises in Mexico’s most popular tourist region The high-profile killings of the North American tourists have brought international attention to an already well-known issue locally: Quintana Roo, where Playa del Carmen and other popular tourist destinations like Cancun are located, is becoming much more violent.
Cherukara are wanted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for crimes ranging from money laundering and drug dealing to robbery and weapons violations. Days after the shooting, two initial suspects were apprehended by authorities.Īccording to Canadian media, Mr. Cherukara and a female companion also from Canada were staying at Hotel Xcaret México where they allegedly met a still unidentified man in a gray tracksuit who opened fire on them, killing the two men and wounding the woman. On May 1, Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection announced the capture of Oscar Iván “N”, who they allege is the mastermind behind the killings of Robert Dinh and Thomas Cherukara, two Canadian citizens that authorities also say are linked to drug trafficking.
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