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Mexican port suffers loss of cruise ships
(USA TODAY)
February 22, 2012
By David Agren, Special for USA TODAY
MAZATLÁN, Mexico - Jorge Figueroa made a living offering tours of this fishing port to passengers from the cruise liners that arrived regularly.
The guide and father would take tourists on shopping excursions, jaunts to Spanish colonial villages, zip line adventures and tastings at a distillery making a tequila-like liquor.
Nowadays he sits idle. Cruise ships stopped calling on Mazatlán in 2011 over security concerns, driving down his business by 80% and forcing him to moonlight as a night auditor in a hotel to make ends meet ...... Read more on USA TODAY
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