No the current violence is not a single incident. It is large scale civil unrest stemming from the arrest of the leader of the Sinaloa cartel. This has resulted in essentially full scale battle between the cartel and the armed forces. Some Mexican news sources are reporting that 10 military members and as many as 19 cartel combatants were killed in fighting yesterday. An AeroMexico passenger plane was shot and damaged in flight by small arms fire. The cartels set up road blocks across the state and burned businesses and cars. While we often see crime and violence overblown as it relates to tourist areas in Mexico, it would be asinine to dismiss the current situation as a singular incident and ignore dramatic rise in danger at this time.
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