{"id":3885,"date":"2015-01-02T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2015-01-02T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T15:15:29","slug":"u-s-state-department-heaps-further-pressure-on-mexicos-struggling-economy-wolf-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3885","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico\u2019s Struggling Economy | Wolf Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico\u2019s Struggling Economy | Wolf Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With its vibrant, colourful street life, rich culture, sunny climes, white-sand beaches, and succulent, spicy food, Mexico is \u2013 or at least should be \u2013 a perfect holiday destination. Yet these days, whenever I tell friends, family or colleagues back in Europe that I\u2019m visiting Mexico, a hushed silence inevitably follows, as if I\u2019d told them I were embarking on a week-long cultural tour of Syria, followed by a few days\u2019 backpacking in the Afghan outback.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about\u00a0narcos<\/em>, violence, kidnappings, robberies?\u201d they inevitably ask, as though that were all Mexico had to offer. You can hardly blame them: after all, that has been the dominant narrative of the last few years, packaged and sold in all its gory detail by our mainstream press. The inevitable result is that millions of foreign tourists have been discouraged from visiting the country out of fear of falling victim to crime. And millions, if not billions, of dollars have been lost along the way.<\/p>\n

Mexican Tourism: An Essential Life Line Now Under Threat<\/strong><\/p>\n

For Mexico, a strong tourist sector is vital to its economy. According to\u00a0one report<\/a>, Mexico was the tenth most visited country on the planet in 2013. Its tourism industry is the third largest \u201cofficial\u201d (i.e. non-criminal) source of revenues, behind oil and remittances, accounting for close to 9% of GDP and providing more than 2.5 million domestic jobs.<\/p>\n

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U.S. State Department Heaps Further Pressure on Mexico\u2019s Struggling Economy | Wolf Street. With its vibrant, colourful street life, rich culture, sunny climes, white-sand beaches, and succulent, spicy food, Mexico is \u2013 or at least should be \u2013 a perfect holiday destination. Yet these days, whenever I tell friends, family or colleagues back in Europe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2346,244,517,2345,2344],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-crime","tag-economics-2","tag-mexico","tag-tourism","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3886,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}