Canadian tourists remain barricaded in their hotel today amid violence in the streets after the arrest of a major drug cartel leader.
Tina Dahl, an Edmonton woman with relatives stranded in the popular resort town of Mazatlan, says her six family members remain safe.
But she says they're definitely shaken by what's happened.
She says the hotel lobby was full of people who slept there overnight after their flights were cancelled.
The beaches are full of military vehicles patrolling up and down as helicopters patrol the skies.
Dahl says her family went to their room Thursday afternoon and have stayed there.