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Travel and Immigration
TORONTO - High-profile Canadian deaths in Mexico have been capturing headlines for years but even the latest tragedy — five dead in a hotel explosion — will do little to deter travel to the country, observers said Monday.
Travel from Canada to Mexico has risen steadily in recent years, despite violent incidents involving Canadians and an escalating drug war that has claimed tens of thousands of Mexican lives.
Since Domenic and Nancy Ianiero of Woodbridge, Ont., were found with their throats slit in February 2006 at a resort near Playa del Carmen, some 18 Canadians have died in the country, according to a Mexican embassy official.
Some have been fatally shot, including Kenneth Klowak, who was killed by armed men after he refused to stop at...
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