The Detroit skyline is seen from the St. Clair Centre for the Arts on July 10, 2019. Photo by Mark Brown/Blackburn News.The Detroit skyline is seen from the St. Clair Centre for the Arts on July 10, 2019. Photo by Mark Brown/Blackburn News.
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Detroit included in South American travel advisory

The Motor City has shown up on an advisory by a Latin American country, urging its residents to exercise caution.

Uruguay has issued a travel warning for its citizens who may be travelling to the United States. Uruguay's government is suggesting travellers avoid Detroit and other cities because of high crime. This warning comes in addition to an advisory given in the wake of two mass shootings that took place over the weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

According to a release issued by the Uruguayan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Detroit is named among several U.S. cities as being among the world's most dangerous.

"Likewise, it is suggested to avoid some cities, which are among the 20 most dangerous in the world, such as Detroit, Michigan, Baltimore, Maryland, and Albuquerque, New Mexico according to the Ceoworld Magazine 2019 index," read the release from the ministry, translated by BlackburnNewsWindsor.com from Spanish.

The Ceoworld index, published on Thursday, ranks 334 major cities around the world based on analysis of crime statistics. Detroit ranked at 319th. Baltimore, which has been in the international spotlight due to high crime, is ranked one place ahead of Detroit in the survey.

Uruguay is not the only South American country that is warning its citizens about travel to the United States. Venezuela is also issuing a warning following the mass shootings that as of Tuesday morning, have left a total of 31 dead in both Texas and Ohio.

"These growing acts of violence have found echo and sustenance in the speeches and actions impregnated with racial discrimination and hatred against migrant populations pronounced and executed from the supremacist elite that hold political power in Washington," read the statement from the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry as quoted in the Washington Post.

The U.S. State Department has already issued travel warnings on both countries. Venezuela is under the most-serious Level 4 travel alert, while the alarm for Uruguay was raised to a Level 2, which means travellers should exercise additional caution. Canada, meanwhile, has only issued a do-not-travel alert for Venezuela.

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