Vamos a tequila
South Padre spring breakers warned on Mexico: Because college kids usuallyfollow warnings
OK, now Mexico's war on drugs has gone too far. Sure, the daily violence has long been beyond horrifying (almost 6,000 homicides in 2008 alone) as drug cartels have taken to targeting non-corrupt law enforcement officials. And sure, as disparate voices as former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and CNN have both called it "a civil war."
But it's really crossed the line when Spring Break is threatened.
Our nation's hard-working future office temp workers — many of them Texans — are having their spring escape booze fests placed in jeopardy .
No less an authority than the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued an official warning, urging spring breakers not to travel to Mexican border cities. The warning — first reported by the San Antonio Express-News — covers the cities that border South Padre Island.
This is the first time that the DPS has come right out and advised students not to go. "If something bad happens (to a spring breaker in Mexico), we can't help them," DPS spokesperson Tela Mange told the San Antonio Express-News.
So much for the long-standing custom of walking into Matamoros (giving Padre spring break the nickname "two-nation vacation") to enjoy the lower drinking ages? While Reynosa across the border form McAllen has seen some drug violence, even the more popular Matamoros has seen a significant decline in the number of shuttle buses bringing students from Texas into Mexico.
Still, some will surely look at defying the warning as a chance to get some street cred. Until - or if - there's an incident.
Could we be back to the days of the fake ID?
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