Coroners remove a body from Colonia Barranca de la Laja, an impoverished neighborhood in Acapulco, Mexico. (Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post)The State Department considers five states in Mexico as dangerous for U.S. travelers as war-torn nations such as Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan. Agency officials announced a new numbered classification system for world travel on Wednesday, replacing a confusing array of “travel alerts” and “travel warnings” found on its website. The country registered a historic number of homicide investigations in 2017, with 23,101 cases opened in the first 11 months. Colombia, India and Indonesia all rate the same warnings for specific areas, carrying specialized information for where U.S. travelers may want to avoid.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2018 20:47 UTC