Ambushes. Armed attacks. Animals that invade the road. Lack of signage and maintenance. Residents and visitors of the Heritage City fear using the highway to San Miguel de Allende due to insecurity.
After the armed attack that took place on the stretch of La Cieneguita, where a flatbed vehicle carrying two American residents was ambushed, the highway that leads from Guanajuato Capital to San Miguel de Allende is positioned as one of the most dangerous in the region, according to users of this road.
The crime left one dead (the driver, identified as Juan Andrés “N”) and two seriously injured (both passengers, foreign residents of San Miguel).
However, this event was only “the straw that broke the camel’s back”, because for years the highway has shown signs of deterioration and lack of attention from the authorities, despite being the main access to San Miguel de Allende, one of the most popular cities for tourists in the entire country.
Through social media, residents of San Miguel (both Mexican and foreign) have shared that they prefer to avoid using the road at night and stay in hotels in nearby cities to reach the “Heart of Mexico” during the day, because in addition to the dangerous curves without lighting and the lack of mobile signal that already characterized this stretch, ambushes and armed attacks are now added.
So far, the municipal government headed by Mauricio Trejo Pureco has not shared any possible solution or concrete security measure to this problem, but the inhabitants of the municipality hope that the situation will be addressed because it affects tourism.
Source: lasillarota
