When she got back home Suarez was telling her trainer what happened, only to find her trainer also had a scary experience with taxis in Tulum. In this case, their taxi was chased by a truck. The truck at one point approached the driver of the taxi and they were talking, seemingly in cahoots. They somehow convince the taxi driver to let them out and they walked, relieved it was just a scary incident and nothing worse. Like Suarez, they too don’t want to return to Tulum.
With U.S security alerts about taxi safety, ‘taxi cartels’, incidents of gang violence in public places, and local officials being part of the problem, how Quintana Roo’s boom goes remains to be seen.
