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| Luis Eduardo Ros, standing, and Mauricio Reyna, seated.// Photo courtesy of the author. |
When they came to Travel Agent’s New York offices recently, Mauricio Reyna, deputy secretary of tourism for Mexico City, and Luis Eduardo Ros, director general of Mexico City’s Institute of Tourism Promotion, immediately acknowledged the negative publicity that has surrounded their city lately.
“The images in the paper are sensational,” Ros said. “Other places have similar violence, but it isn’t published like it is in Mexico. We don’t have a national strategy for our national image.”
That is what Ros and Reyna are looking to change. “Mexico City has a Public Security Minister appointed by the Mayor,” Reyna told us. “There are 60,000 police officers and 8,000 security cameras throughout the city, all monitored 24 hours per day.” Mexico City is the only city in Mexico with this level of security, he added. Other areas can get tied up in bureaucracy, but Mexico City’s police force answers only to the Public Security Minister.
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