Local restaurant waiter Martin Perez Lopez talks outside the closed Blue Parrot club in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, on July 11, 2017. The Blue Parrot was the scene of a shooting that left five people dead during the BPM music festival last January. In early July, there was another shooting at a club across the street called La Vaquita aka The Small Cow. Violence in Mexico spiked in 2017 with more than 12,000 homicides in the first six months, leaving many to question the future of this popular touristic area.

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Location: Playa Del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Calle 8 Norte, Gonzalo Guerrero, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mex
Photo credit: © Brett Gundlock / Alamy / Afripics
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