Overview
- Global Affairs Canada updated the Mexico notice on Nov. 13, urging travelers to reconsider non‑essential trips to Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas.
- Sinaloa is singled out for frequent confrontations in Culiacán and parts of Mazatlán, with reports of armed groups stopping vehicles on the Culiacán–Mazatlán highway.
- The guidance keeps Mexico overall at a yellow risk level while elevating the 13 states to orange, and it prescribes staying in tourist zones, avoiding night travel and limiting movements.
- Exceptions specify safer areas such as Los Mochis and defined zones of Mazatlán when accessed by air or sea, plus city carve‑outs like Monterrey, Hermosillo, Puerto Peñasco, Tampico and the city of Zacatecas.
- Media summaries differed on the scope, with some reports listing 14 states, but the official advisory cites 13 and includes precise caveats like buffers near the Michoacán border and segments south of highways 43D and 45D.