PLAYA DEL CARMEN, MEXICO—Manuel is twitchy. Security is heavy-handed as “Manuel,” a narco from the Sinaloa Cartel, is interviewed in a safe house in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. He offers disturbing insight into the unprecedented wave of cartel violence that has recently washed over the much-loved Canadian tourist hot spots of Playa del Carmen and Cancun. The murder rate in Quintana Roo state, which encompasses Playa del Carmen and Cancun, has increased by 335 per cent in the last two years. I can’t.” W5’s investigation into drug violence in Mexico — The Narco Riviera — airs Saturday at 7 p.m. on CTV.

Source: thestar March 29, 2019 17:31 UTC