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Mystery surrounds disappearance of three Italians in Mexico's Jalisco statePatrick J. McDonnellIn a country where tens of thousands have gone missing, most presumed killed by gangs, sometimes in cahoots with police, the recent disappearance of three men barely qualified as news except for one fact: they are citizens not of Mexico but of Italy.The toll of Mexico's escalating violence has fallen almost exclusively on Mexicans, often with only a passing mention in the press of the daily ledger of assaults, homicides and abductions.But international scrutiny is inevitable when foreigners become victims — as happened when two Australian surfers were found dead in Sinaloa state in 2016 or when the niece of Spain's top soccer official was kidnapped and killed in Mexico City that year.Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-italians-20180224-story.html
If one reads on in the story, apparently these tourists were stopped first by police, anyway, it certainly sounds bad again. My own conjecture too, is that Jalisco is not in the usual tourist spot area as the beaches.
