By Tyler Durden
Mexico is deploying National Guard troops to high-end resorts in Cancun down to Tulum amid a spate of cartel shootings that have killed and injured tourists this year.
The Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, reported the creation of the Tourist Security Battalion of the National Guard that will deploy 1,500 Guardsmen “to ensure the tranquility of tourists,” according to Yucatan Times.
The presence of military personnel in the state of Quintana Roo has steadily increased this year as multiple cartels are battling for control of the drug trade.
Is it because ‘supplying drugs to millennials on holiday is a lucrative trade’? Or is it all those wonderful non stop flights to and from America, Europe, Turkey, and now, even India? And those cruise ships?