Most Cancún crime is not reported in the mainstream Mexican press. It may be nothing more than an attitude of "so what else is new?," or it may be concern about disrupting Gold Coast tourist trade, at famous resorts like Playa del Carmen, Isla de Mujeres and Cancún itself. Those areas could end up like Acapulco, where the local economy has been ravaged by cartel violence in recent years.
The one local paper which accurately reports Cancún news said recently that the entire area is being taken over by the Los Zetas cartel, which is generally recognized as the face of organized crime in Quintana Roo state.
Nov. 12 - Quintana Roo's state prosecutor, Gaspar Armando García Torres (below), says that the two men were drug distributors who worked the Cancun hotel zone for Los Zetas. Once again this is evidence that the primary customers for Gold Coast narcotics are tourists and foreign visitors. Each of the men, 28 and 36, was shot to death. Usually these types of executions are payback for money not turned over, or drugs stolen.
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