Remember on Monday, when I warned our college student readers that Mexico was going to be a dangerous place to spend Spring Break? The U.S. State Department is backing me up. This morning, MSNBC reported,

“The U.S. government says Mexico’s bloody drug war is a growing threat to tourists. Now, as college students start planning their spring breaks, the U.S. State Department has a new warning about traveling to Mexico.”

The article goes on to give gravity to the situation with some of the latest border town violence:

“In Mexican border cities in just the past week, a police chief quit after drug gangs started killing police officers, gunmen opened fire on a governor’s convoy, killing a bodyguard, and 10 people died in a 4-hour shootout involving grenades and bazookas.”

All of which is to say, not to belabor the point, that I was right. Now, I’m not trying to badmouth the Mexican people in general, who of course aren’t any better or worse than any other people (this isn’t the Lou Dobbs show, folks). I’m just saying, it’s getting ugly down there at the moment. That’s not stopping opportunistic travel agents from trying to keep the festivities going, of course. MSNBC also interviewed a travel agent who said,

“You have to make a distinction between the border incidents that are going on and the places like Playacar, Cancun, Cabo San Lucas and Puerto Vallarta, which are exceedingly safe.”

Fine. In that case, we’ve got things clearly demarcated. If you want to spend your Spring Break drinking and having loose sex, go to Cancun. If you want to put on a cape and/or luchador mask, and spend your holiday dodging bullets and beating up criminals, head down to Ciudad Juárez. Or, you know… there’s always Florida.