Is it safe to go to the Riviera Maya? YES

This article is yet another one that might scare tourists about the safety of Mexico.
Please note, that while I don't mean to downplay the seriousness of this event, it took place outside of the tourist area in a residential area of Cancun. This is the same as telling people not to travel to mid town Manhattan in New York City because of murders in Harlem or the Bronx or Brooklyn or Newark, NJ.

Almost all of my clients that fly into the Cancun airport head down to the Riviera Maya. Just so you can understand some of the distances, Puerto Morelos (where properties like Excellence Riviera Cancun and Secrets Maroma are near) is 36 kilometers or 22.5 miles south of the Cancun airport. Playa del Carmen is 68 kilometers or 42 miles south of the Cancun airport. This event took place NORTH of the Cancun airport so my clients who are traveling to the Riviera Maya, should feel safe on their vacation.

CNN) -- Eight people died early Tuesday after attackers hurled several Molotov cocktails into a Cancun, Mexico, bar, the state attorney general said.

Six women and two men, all Mexican nationals and employees of the tavern, were killed in the 1:30 a.m. strike, now under investigation by judicial police, according to a release from Francisco Alor Quezada, attorney general for the state of Quintana Roo.

Eight men hurled the explosives at the bar and fled in vehicles, the release said. No shots were fired. Although the tavern is just 5 kilometers from the city's tourist stretch, it sits apart from the area frequented by tourists, and the clientele is composed of locals, it said.