Mexico's murder problem is much worse than Jamaica - over 30,000 murders in the last 5 years in Mexico, with about 7,500 in Jamaica.
Add to that that Jamaica's murders are confined to a few Kingston areas, for the most part - and are gang-related rather than tourist-related.
Mexico's murders are mostly in the border area and gang-related, too. But unlike Jamaica, in Mexico it IS spreading to the non-border tourist areas - and tourists are increasingly part of the statistics.
For instance, Acapulco has gotten very bad.
"Saturday's Acapulco killings come only a few weeks following the shocking discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 18 people... The victims are believed to have been touring Acapulco by bus while on vacation when they were kidnapped by cartel members and murdered in cold-blood..."
http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kouri/110218
While both may be equally safe for AI guests who don't leave the resorts - I feel perfectly safe travelling in Jamaica off-resort, which I would no longer do in Mexico.
