After Canada issued an alert to its citizens not to travel to Mazatlán, the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, declared that the municipal government was “imprudent” in alerting citizens about a “single” shooting.
“We had problems in Mazatlán. It was imprudent on the part of someone in the municipal government. The day there was that shooting, the only one in Mazatlán, they published: ‘Don’t leave your house, please, take care of yourselves!’ Well, the Canadian government caught it and rubbed it in our faces,” said the Morena governor at a press conference.
The Sinaloa governor explained that he contacted the Canadian government to find out the reasons why the alert was issued.
“I immediately spoke to the foreign ministry and we spoke to the Canadian government. ‘Hey, why did they send that alert note to Mazatlán?’ And he tells me: ‘because of you, you are calling for people not to go out, so we are not going to tell our people to go’”.
Rocha Moya reported that they are already working on getting the Canadian government to withdraw the alert, as he assures that the city of Mazatlán is calm enough to receive foreign and national tourists.
For this work, dialogue tables will be held between the municipal, state, federal level and the Canadian government.
Canada issued an alert for its inhabitants not to travel to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, after the violent events reported on the weekend of October 26 and 27, and asked that those who are in this territory take extreme precautions and stay alert to the media.
This afternoon Wendy Hardouin, Canadian consul, Estrella Palacios Domínguez, mayor of Mazatlán, and Celia Jauregui, director of the Secretariat of Economic Development, Tourism and Fisheries (Sedectur), met.
Local media reported that as a result of this meeting, the consul stated that it is the decision of the government in Ottawa and the Canadian embassy to lift the travel warning for this tourist destination.
Source: proceso
