Canadian travel advisory used for political attacks on president, says Mexican lawmaker

A lawmaker with Mexico’s governing political party says local reporting around a tweaked Canadian travel advisory on Mexico was used to attack Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

Global Affairs Canada updated its travel advisory to Mexico on Nov. 13 by reducing the threat level around specific zones of the Pacific Coast city of Mazatlán, in the state of Sinaloa. The rest of the long-standing portions of the advisory remained unchanged.

However, local media wrongly reported that Canada had issued a brand new Mexican travel warning about 13 of the country’s 31 states . The wave of reporting started on Monday evening and continued throughout the week.

Updates to Canadian travel advisories often trigger local news stories in target countries. Many times the stories run before see