State Department Warning: Travel to Mexico Not Advised

       The White House has offered the government of Mexico U.S. troops to combat the drug cartels after an ambush near the southern US border left 9 American citizens dead, seven of them children.  This assault on innocent civilians underscores the depravity of the drug games and the inability of the Mexican government to combat lawlessness in its own country.  Until the government can break the chain of corrupt law enforcement officials and local governors, the massacre of civilians will continue at ever increasing costs.  Spend your tourist dollars elsewhere, not south of the border.