A Mexican newspaper blasted a group of young Americans visiting Cancun on spring break after witnesses said they broke into chants of “Build that wall” earlier this month and refused to stop, despite complaints.
In an editorial published Friday, The Yucatan Times said the incident was not isolated but was part of a growing number of complaints about "offensive, rude and haughty" spring break tourists who flock to Mexico for vacation.
Newlyweds Suly and Anaximandro Amable took to social media on March 6 after they said they attended a show on the "Pirate Ship" out of Puerto Juarez as part of their honeymoon, according to The Yucatan Times and social media posts.
Suly Amable wrote on Facebook that she and her husband were getting off the boat after the show when they heard the chants.
"In the face of such stupidity, one doesn't know how to immediately react," she wrote. "We were stunned. The whole thing seemed implausible."
Anaximandro Amable said the group who broke into the chant might have been intoxicated when they “began to sing the infamous ‘Build that wall’ chant louder and louder.”
“I have always been tolerant of the countries of the world and I have wanted to believe that human stupidity and ignorance … is characteristic of a small group of people,” Anaximandro Amable wrote. “But there are things with which one cannot be tolerant, such as discourse that incites hatred.”
The Yucatan Times reported that several Mexican tourists on the ship became annoyed and uncomfortable as the chants went on, but the Americans refused to stop chanting.
President Donald Trump has vowed to build a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico.
“I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me,” Trump said in June 2015 while announcing his presidential run. "I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.”
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