Mexico deported 27 Bulgarian Tourists in the span of 3 Months, Some were Kept in Cells for 4 Days

The authorities in Mexico have selectively deported a total of 27 Bulgarian tourists from six travel agencies from October 2022 until now. In one of the cases, Bulgarians were kept in a cell for four days.

The "Future of Tourism" Association has raised the alarm about the problem, which has appealed to the ministries of tourism and foreign affairs, our embassy in Mexico and the honorary consul of Mexico in Bulgaria.

The Ministry of Tourism has been working on the case for several days. The Directorate of Consular Relations told Bulgarian media"OFFNews" that there will be official information about the case later in the day.

"The cases of non-admission of Bulgarian tourists with all the necessary documents to the territory of Mexico began in October 2022, and all of them are at the airport in the coastal city of Cancun," said Deputy Chairman of the FOT Dimitar Baltov in a position of the association, quoted by BTA.

Immediately after the plane landed, some of the passengers from Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics were turned away and taken by uniformed persons to separate rooms, where their mobile phones were taken away and they were expelled back on the same plane with the argument that they did not have a prepaid hotel and cannot reside in the country.

Victims say that no one cares about the vouchers issued, the authorities are rude and none of them speak any other language than Spanish.

"Until now, 27 Bulgarians have been deported part of 6 tour operators without explanation. The first case was from October, then there was one from December and already several in January. All the deported were from the airport in Cancun," Dimitar Baltov told Bulgarian media "Mediapool".