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[...] they start talking about drug cartels and the latest drug-deal-gone-bad movie featuring dismemberment and blowtorches. Tourism here has greatly recovered from both the cartel wars and the global financial collapse. The most recent posted figures from journeymexico.com, for instance, show a dramatic rise. Can they all be stupid? I don't think so, in spite of abundant tequila consumption. (Trust me, April is still a good time not to be in Hamburg.) It was the same on Avenue 5, the long, busy pedestrian boulevard that ends in the ferry pier to Cozumel. Lots of airlines fly to Cancun, about a half-hour shuttle bus or cab ride from Playa del Carmen. The airfares are attractive, about the same as making a flight to the East or West Coast from Chicago or Dallas. Flight time and plane changes depend on your departure point, of course, but Cancun qualifies as one of the easy getaways. The devastation caused by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and the global financial crisis notwithstanding, there has been a fiendish amount of development here in the last 10 years. Everyone's nose is rubbed in visions of diamonds, countless $10,000 watches and other jewelry that few people want to buy, and only the most affluent can afford to buy, ever.