U.S. State Department Issues Warning About Tainted Alcohol At Mexican Resorts
Mexico’s all-inclusive resorts have a reputation as hard-partying destinations, but a new warning from the U.S. State Department encourages travelers to think twice when consuming alcohol in Mexico. The travel alert comes after a 20-year-old Wisconsin woman was found unresponsive in a pool at an Iberostar resort near Playa del Carmen in January.
Abbey Conner, who had arrived at the resort with her family just two hours earlier, was drinking with her brother Austin at the resort’s swim-up bar. The pair did a few tequila shots, but no one knows what happened in the minutes leading up to both of them being found face-down in the pool. Austin had a severe concussion, but recovered. Abbey was declared brain dead and taken off life support shortly after the incident.
