U.S. Issues Travel Warning For Popular Mexican Tourist City

MEXICO CITY – The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has issued a new travel alert for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen, where an explosion on a tourist ferry injured 26 people last month.
The embassy says in an alert posted on its website that it received information Wednesday about a “security threat” in that city and U.S. government employees have been ordered to stop traveling to the area “until further notice.”
It adds that the U.S. consular agency in Pla