us plated car in the yucatan peninsula

What Permanent Residents Need to Know About U.S. Plated Cars in the Yucatán Peninsula

For years, there was a quiet understanding across the Yucatán Peninsula. If you were driving a U.S. or Canadian-plated vehicle in Mérida, Cancún, Playa del Carmen, or Tulum, enforcement felt inconsistent at best. Many permanent residents continued driving foreign vehicles without much trouble. It wasn’t necessarily legal — but it wasn’t aggressively enforced either. That … Read more