An influential Senate committee has opened an investigation into recent alcohol poisonings and blackouts of U.S. tourists to Mexican resorts, including one at a posh Cancun area all-inclusive that claimed the life of a Wisconsin woman in January.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee kicked off the probe with a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson this week demanding what it knows about the reports and why the department issued a warning to tourists about drinking alcohol in Yucatan resorts.
“I write to request information about a number of reported incidents of American tourists vacationing in Mexico consuming potentially tainted alcohol, including information regarding the death of 20-year-old Wisconsinite, Abbey Connor,” penned the chairman of the committee, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson.
Johnson has been conducting his own probe into Connor’s death and the reports of others being poisoned by bad alcohol in the resort area popular with Americans. Connor died in January days after she and her brother were found face down in a pool after drinking at the Iberostar Paraiso del Mar, between Cancun and Playa del Carmen.
In his letter, Johnson revealed that he has met with Mexican authorities on behalf of Connor’s parents, John and Ginny McGowan. But, he said that the resort and local authorities haven’t been helpful.
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— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) August 17, 2017
Some of my relatives like to vacation at Mexican resorts. You couldn’t pay me enough to visit Mexico.
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