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When compared to Washington, D.C.&#8217;s 31 people  per 100,000 inhabitants and New Orleans 64, the numbers aren&#8217;t cause  for concern if you know where to not go.<\/p>\n<p>According a recent US State Department&#8217;s report, the state of Jalisco  and Puerto Vallarta are in the minimum percentage category of violent  crimes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzIpjKMKhQs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the increase in drug-related violence, a closer look at Mexico shows that the country is actually safer than what headlines suggest. As a whole, Mexico&#8217;s murder rate is surprisingly low: 12 homicides for every 100,000 inhabitants. When compared to Washington, D.C.&#8217;s 31 people per 100,000 inhabitants and New Orleans 64, the numbers aren&#8217;t cause <a class=\"moretag\" data-post-item=\"902\" href=\"https:\/\/www.puerto-vallarta-rentals.com\/blog\/is-it-safe-to-travel-to-mexico-even-puerto-vallarta-2\/\" >[More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3702,2147,6922,2829,3708,1997,1998,2001,8334,1650,970,1767,2166,1821,8196,3697,1030,6388,2879,1215,2483,963,3689,955,4826,7444,3691,1963,1784,3709,1002,1750,1564,953,1522,5798,4828,1341,6022,1424,1278,1586,4640,954,1270,962,1978,4827,2000,1019],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puerto-vallarta-travel","tag-3702","tag-border","tag-cause","tag-close","tag-concern","tag-country","tag-crime","tag-d-c","tag-department","tag-drug-related-violence","tag-full","tag-headlines","tag-homicide","tag-homicides","tag-increase","tag-inhabitants","tag-jalisco","tag-know","tag-len","tag-line","tag-look","tag-mexico","tag-mexico-shows","tag-mexicos","tag-minimum-percentage-category","tag-murder","tag-murder-rate","tag-new-orleans","tag-number","tag-numbers","tag-part","tag-people","tag-percent","tag-puerto","tag-puerto-vallarta","tag-rate","tag-recent-us-state","tag-report","tag-se","tag-show","tag-state","tag-state-department","tag-title","tag-vallarta","tag-very","tag-video","tag-violence","tag-violent-crimes","tag-washington","tag-youtube"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is it safe to travel to Mexico? 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