PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Janet Sanders, is a successful U.S. financial software executive, who runs a travel advisory site at Mexiknowinfo.com that warns American travelers of the ongoing dangers and risks they will face while visiting Mexico.
Two American citizens are dead after a violent kidnapping and shootout in Mexico that is making headlines around the world.
Two others in the traveling party that were injured are now hospitalized back in the U.S. after receiving an armored escort via ambulance in a convoy of Mexican military and American National Guard trucks with mounted machine guns.
The two survivors were taken by the FBI to Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas where they remain in the hospital and under guard.
The four had traveled together from North Carolina so one of them could get a cosmetic medical procedure, a tummy tuck, from a Mexican doctor in the border city of Matamoros.
Each March and April, tens of thousands of American college students go to Mexico for spring break, and many thousands more head south of the border throughout the year looking for fun in the sun.
Travel expert Janet Sanders lived in Mexico until earlier this year, nearly lost her life to the corrupt local police officials under the drug cartel’s power. She strongly cautions any American citizen from going to Mexico, especially now with tensions on the rise there. Sanders is urging parents of college students to keep their kids out of Mexico at all costs. “College kids who are there to party won’t make good decisions under the best of circumstances, and now, bad choices could turn deadly,” says Sanders.
“These Americans that were kidnapped by the drug cartels in Mexico were murdered, and we still haven’t declared the cartels a military target. It’s way past time that we authorize U.S. military force against them, and protect our people”, said Sanders, who is currently writing a book about her own dangerous experience in Mexico and oversees the travel advisory website
“My heart goes out to the families of my fellow Americans murdered in Matamoros. It’s only because of intense pressure from the media and the U.S. government that the two others are alive. This violence happens every day in parts of Mexico, and no one usually hears about it. That must stop, and I’ll do everything I can to help” said Sanders.
BIO: Successful U.S. financial software executive Janet Sanders and her Mexican-American husband Joe moved to their “dream home” in the picturesque Yucatan peninsula, only to see her and her husband's dreams (along with most of their personal property) destroyed by cartel-like thugs who were protected by corrupt local police officials.
Now safely back in the United States, Janet Sanders is sounding the alarm via her travel advisory site www.mexiknowinfo.com which is adding startling new accounts every day of increased risk to American citizens visiting Mexico.
Janet will tell her complete and harrowing story in a soon-to-be released book from award winning publisher Headline Books. Ms. Sanders hopes her story can be cautionary tale not only for American tourists and ex-pats, but also for government and border officials in both the U.S. and Mexico.
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Janet Sanders, is a successful U.S. financial software executive, who runs a travel advisory site at Mexiknowinfo.com that warns American travelers of the ongoing dangers and risks they will face while visiting Mexico.