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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...seized-after-womans-death-at-posh-resort.html
ARLINGTON, Texas -- Rick Autrey is finally back to work at the Garden Plaza Barber Shop, a three-chair spot in an Arlington strip mall he opened in 1994.
But for the past three months, Autrey has endured an agonizing recovery after a Mexican vacation that turned into a living hell his first afternoon there.
"We landed, and literally I had been down there for less than four hours, and something happened. It's a very dangerous place," says Autrey.
In May, Autrey and another friend traveled to the country's east coast and Riviera Maya for a quick stay at an all-inclusive resort.
Autrey says after having a few rum and cokes spaced out over a few hours, he was suddenly found floating in one of the resort's pools.
"They threw me on the swim-up bar and started CPR," he says, recounting what witnesses later told him happened.
A few hours later, and with his friend being forced to pay more than $10,000 up front, the father and husband was unconscious in a Mexican hospital.
Soon, his wife was by his bed, and no one had a clear picture of what had occurred.
"They said, 'You've had an accident and you're in the hospital.' I remember being stunned thinking, 'Why in the world are you down here?'" he said.
After the hospital in Cancun kept demanding cash or a credit card for care, the family soon decided to fly Rick home with help from a friend with access to a medical jet
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/0...seized-after-womans-death-at-posh-resort.html
Resorts are corrupted, hospitals are corrupted. There is no way to be sure any location is safe to vacation in.Mexican regulators raided 31 hot spots in Cancun and Playa del Carmen this past weekend as part of a widening effort to crack down on illegal alcohol -- a black market that came into the national spotlight after a Wisconsin woman's alcohol-linked death at a posh Mexican resort.
At least two locations were temporarily shut down after the raids, including the popular Fat Tuesday bar in Cancun, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Police also seized 10,000 gallons of tainted alcohol from a manufacturing company that supplies booze to popular restaurants, nightclubs and resorts in the region, authorities said.