Canadian tourists remain barricaded in their hotel today amid violence in the streets after the arrest of a major drug cartel leader.
Stranded travellers who had checked out of their rooms but whose flights were cancelled slept in the hotel lobby, the gates of which remained barricaded, she said. Military and police vehicles trundled up and down beaches that had been recently full of suntanning vacationers.
Dahl said her family was being careful to keep their cellphones charged after hearing rumours that cartel members were planning to shut down Mazatlan’s power grid. “My brother did call my mom and dad yesterday and he’s like, ‘It’s something I’ve never seen before. It’s like something in the middle of a war zone and I don’t know what to think and feel.’This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Dahl said her family was to talk with Sunwing on Friday to see when they could get a flight home.Hailey Bronson said she expects to be heading home to Cochrane, Alta., as planned on Sunday, although a few of her friends had their flights rescheduled. She has been staying in an apartment downtown and said it was strange to see the usually busy town of Mazatlan turn silent Thursday. “I’ve never seen Mazatlan so quiet in my life,” Bronson said in a message Friday. “But today everything is back to normal.” The federal government continues to advise Canadians in Mexico to shelter in place, avoid crowds and demonstrations and not to try to cross blockades, even if they appear unmanned.Article content WestJet said it had cancelled two flights in and out of Mazatlan on Friday. Air Canada said none of its flights were affected by the unrest.On Thursday, at least two passenger airplanes were hit by gunfire. Alleged cartel members were carjacking Culiacan residents and setting vehicles ablaze. The fighting came days before President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was to host Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden at a summit in Mexico City. It’s not the first time Ovidio Guzman’s arrest has led to violence. An aborted operation to capture him three years ago set off violence in Culiacan that ultimately led Lopez Obrador to order the military to let Guzman go.
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