Seriously. That Just Happened. 
The Mexican government warned Mexican nationals to use extreme caution when traveling to Arizona. No seriously. The government issued a formal travel alert, saying that Mexican nationals could face harassment as a result of the state’s new immigration law which requires the police to stop anyone who they have a reasonable suspicion to believe is an illegal alien.
A couple weeks ago, the United States issued a travel alert for Mexico due to Mexico being unable to control all the drug-related violence going on in certain areas, specifically in Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Chihuahua City (I’m not even going to bother trying to make a joke because seriously, Mexico? Chihuahua City? COME ON!), Nogales, Matamoros, Reynosa and Monterrey.
Today, Mexico was all “ha! ha!” and issued a travel alert for Arizona due to Arizona being an asshat.
Do you know what countries are on our travel warning list? The following countries (with the date each was listed with the Bureau of Consular Affairs):***
Democratic Republic of the Congo 04/21/2010
Kyrgyz Republic 04/20/2010
Mexico 04/12/2010
Philippines 04/02/2010
Algeria 04/02/2010
Lebanon 03/29/2010
Iran 03/23/2010
Kenya 03/16/2010
Haiti 03/15/2010
Colombia 03/05/2010
Eritrea 03/02/2010
Central African Republic 02/26/2010
Yemen 02/25/2010
Iraq 02/25/2010
Saudi Arabia 02/18/2010
Pakistan 01/07/2010
Sudan 12/31/2009
Somalia 12/31/2009
Mauritania 12/02/2009
Chad 11/23/2009
Mali 11/19/2009
Sri Lanka 11/19/2009
Nepal 11/19/2009
Guinea 10/17/2009
Cote d’Ivoire 09/22/2009
Israel, the West Bank and Gaza 08/14/2009
Afghanistan 07/23/2009
Burundi 07/22/2009
Nigeria 07/17/2009
Uzbekistan 06/16/2009
Georgia 04/09/2009
***Travel alerts, which are based on short-term conditions that could fuck up your travel plans have been issued for Ethiopia, India, Thailand, and the Kyrgyz Republic. Travel warnings are based on long-term conditions… basically, if you value your life, don’t plan on traveling to the above-listed countries anytime soon.
So that’s pretty cool, huh? Us being on a list with a bunch of other countries where we would never ever vacation because we might get our heads blown off, or be harassed by the relatives of some dead guy who want to share their six million dollar inheritance with us as long as we agree to give them all our bank account information so they can safely deposit the money.
We’re like Nigeria now, is what I’m sayin’.
But I guess that makes sense since we have a Kenyan president and all.
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Based on that logic, the US could have issued a similar warning for France because of harrasment and ridicule for not speaking what was supposed to be ‘The World Language.’ Granted our past administration was probably stupid enough to actually do it with a straight face since they refused to join The Coalition of the Bribed, er…Willing. But at least clueless American tourists could pretend to be Canadian unlike the profiled people in Arizona.
I love that you need a someone to warn not to go to places like Haiti – didn’t know that was a massive earthquake that destroyed a country already in ruins! – or Iraq.
And just today the U.S Embassy in Brazil issued a warning to american citizens currently here to avoid four cities in the State of São Paulo, due to recent deaths (four, I think) on the area, crime-related. People were FURIOUS. Apparently is one of these just-don’t-go-there-now-oh-look!-it’s-ok-you’re-safe warnings.
Funny thing, I hadn’t even heard of those crimes until people were outrageous about the Embassy’s actions.
I think a vacation to Baghdad would be lovely! I wonder where I can purchase a Kevlar burqa?
I love that you need a someone to warn not to go to places like Haiti – didn’t know that was a massive earthquake that destroyed a country already in ruins! – or Iraq.
And just today the U.S Embassy in Brazil issued a warning to american citizens currently here to avoid four cities in the State of São Paulo, due to recent deaths on the area, crime-related. People were FURIOUS. Apparently is one of these just-don’t-go-there-now-oh-look!-it’s-ok-you’re-safe warnings.
Funny thing, I hadn’t even heard of those crimes until people were outrageous about the Embassy’s actions.
obama totally put kenya on that list so he could be like, “see, i don’t hold a candle for my birthpl- i mean, for that random african country that means nothing to me.” but we all know that in his heart of darkness, he/malcolm x/joseph conrad will always call it home.
The whore! The whore!
I had a dream about vacationing to Nepal last night. No wait, it was Senegal. Whatever, I guess my cocaine
trip to Colombia will have to be postponed until further notice. Bright spot? I can finally take that trip to North
Korea I’ve *always* been dreaming about!
wait, they issued the advisory for their citizens in arizona, or our citizens being shot by their citizens in arizona? it’s a little confusing.