Vive Mexico!

It’s official: We can go to Mexico again. The CDC has removed the Mexican travel health warning for Novel H1N1 Flu, aka swine flu, as of this morning. The travel notice was replaced with a general warning about the global status of the virus, which the World Health Organization raised to a pandemic on June 11.

Although I didn’t have a chance to make a trip across the border while the hysteria over the outbreak was crippling the Mexican tourism industry, I was there in March, when throngs of Spring Breakers were warned not to go because of drug-related violence. As usual, I found the Yucatán to be quiet, hospitable, and safer than the Washington, D.C., streets I was leaving behind. Still nervous? Think of it as a way to earn good travel karma, and go anyway. The L.A. Times’ Andrés Martinez makes a convincing moral case to help out our neighbors and indulge in some empathy tourism. And the Washington Post has put together a list of some of the best deals designed to inject a much needed boost into the tourism industry as part of the Mexican government’s nearly $100 million “Vive Mexico” tourism campaign.

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