In line with quite a few stories, Carnival Cruise Line and Royal Caribbean Cruises canceled their itineraries to Ensenada, Mexico after a weekend of vandalism, looting and threats of mass violence by a drug cartel in that port metropolis and different places in Northern Baja. The Jalisco New Technology Cartel (CJNG), previously often called Los Mata Zetas, burned autos within the space and threatened violence.
These two Miami based mostly cruise traces, which sail from Lengthy Seashore, California to the west coast of Mexico, stopped calling on Ensenada this previous weekend. AIS monitoring techniques present each the Carnival Radiance and Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas crusing in circles off the coast of Ensenada earlier this week. 
Final Friday, the Mexican drug cartel despatched a warning promising “mayhem on the streets” all through the weekend until a few of its gang members have been launched from jail. Stories adopted of cars being hijacked and burned, roadblocks being erected and shops being looted.
The Los Angeles Instances reported that “messages additionally started circulating on social media, purportedly from the Jalisco New Technology cartel, declaring a curfew in Tijuana (about 100 kilometers of Ensenada) and warning residents to go residence or threat being attacked.” The Instances additionally reported that “lots of of navy troops and particular forces had arrived in Tijuana to assist restore order and reinforce safety. Some 300 troops, together with 50 members of the nationwide guard, have been flown in to assist 3,000 nationwide guard troops and the two,000-strong Tijuana police pressure that, in response to the mayor, have been already patrolling.”
Carnival Radiance & Royal Caribbean’s Navigator of the Seas #cruise ships sailed in circles earlier this week lacking port in #Mexico as Jalisco New Technology Cartel (CJNG), previously often called Los Mata Zetas, burned autos & erected roadblocks in #Ensenada & all through Baja 1/2 https://t.co/RMqM36v5v5
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) August 17, 2022
Cartel exercise, together with the burning of dozens of autos, saved Carnival Radiance passengers on board and off the shores of Ensenada. https://t.co/Fs3K3lo5Bt
— Lengthy Seashore Enterprise Journal (@LBBizJourn) August 15, 2022
In line with the Border Report, the mayor of Ensenada, Mexico issued a public announcement that “cruise ships are coming again” after pulling out over safety issues for passengers and staff.
In line with the mayor’s workplace, Carnival had “threatened to stop operations in Ensenada until safety measures for passengers have been enhanced.”
The mayor claims that he obtained unspecified “assurances” from Carnival throughout a convention name Monday afternoon.
“I’m very pleased they confirmed the remainder of their scheduled arrivals and so they belief within the actions we’ve carried out,” Mayor Ayala Robles mentioned. The character of the so-called “safety procedures” allegedly undertaken weren’t talked about. Carnival has not publicly said that it has particular plans to renew its earlier iteniraries to Ensenada. Royal Caribbean has been silent about this hazard.
Mayor of #Ensenada, #Mexico introduced “#cruise ships are coming again” in effort to avert PR catastrophe as @CarnivalCruise & @RoyalCaribbean suspended #cruise itineraries to Ensenada after #drug cartel violence and threats . . . 2/2 https://t.co/Da9uVmjXPf
— James (Jim) Walker (@CruiseLaw) August 17, 2022
Promoting cruises to Mexico has at all times concerned being difficult. Gunmen robbed 22 Carnival passengers on an tour in Mexico round ten years in the past.
Again in 2012, Royal Caribbean and NCL cruise ships, which sailed to Mexico, repositioned from Los Angeles due to fears of violence in Mexico. We wrote quite a few articles over a decade in the past in regards to the hazard of drug-related violence and crime in sure Mexican ports of name.
An AP article from over a decade in the past said that though port officers and cruise business representatives have tried to emphasise that almost all violence in Mexico takes place away from cruise locations, this message has a tough time “competing with photographs of beheaded our bodies on the information.”
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Prime photographs: AIS info Ensenada, Mexico and Navigator of the Seas – MarineTraffic.com.
