Lawmakers React to a New Travel Alert on Mexico
 Yvonne Reyes Campos - The News
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May 11, 2010
 |  | What is becoming obvious now, is that our relationship with the United States is deteriorating more and more.
- Jorge Ramírez Marín |  | | |
Mexico City – President Felipe Calderón was asked, yesterday, to review his diplomatic relationship with his U.S. counterpart, in response to the new travel alerts recently issued by the U.S. government.
Lawmakers of the three main Mexican parties, namely the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the National Action Party (PAN) and the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), insisted that Calderón should act boldly as U.S. citizens were recently advised to avoid unnecessary travels to the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa, Durango, Coahuila, Michoacán and Tamaulipas, due to security problems in the north of the country.
The President of the Political Coordination Committee in the Senate, who is also the coordinator of the PAN bloc in the Upper House, Gustavo Madero, did not dismiss the idea that the travel alerts, ordered by Barack Obama’s administration, could be an indirect means to divert attention from the controversial SB1070 Law, which criminalizes immigration in Arizona.
“Instead of issuing travel warnings... Obama had rather propose comprehensive solutions and concrete actions to reduce drug use in his country, and to combat organized crime, including arms trafficking,” Madero said.
“What is unjustifiable, is diverting attention from Arizona’s anti-immigration Law, a problem that is generating international and discriminatory consequences,” he added.
Jorge Ramírez Marín, the vice-coordinator of the PRI bloc in the Congress, deemed the travel alerts excessive. By contrast, he considered “quite mild” Calderón’s attempts to requesting responsible action from the U.S. government regarding the war on organized crime. “What is becoming obvious now, is that our relationship with the United States is deteriorating more and more,” Ramírez said. “On the one hand, our local interests, including the recovery of our tourism industry, are now threatened. On the other hand, our ideological positions are explicitly divergent.”
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