Drug Cartels Muscle Into Mexican Town Packed With Americans
Violent gangs are pushing cocaine and imposing a brutal brand of property tax on small businesses in San Miguel de Allende.
The famous church, Parroquia de San Miguel Arcángel.
Photographer: Alfredo Estrella/ AFP via Getty Images
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San Miguel de Allende oozes old Mexico charm.
There are the cobblestone streets, the colonial-era buildings and wrought-iron balconies, the neo-Gothic steeples soaring high above the pink-sandstone church anchoring a corner of the main plaza. Travel and Leisure magazine has twice named it the best city in the world, a ratification of how beloved it is with tourists and retirees from the U.S., Canada and beyond.