Four warring Mexican drug cartels indiscriminately kill to assert dominance over an 80-mile stretch of resorts along the Caribbean coast to tap into the country’s $30 billion tourism revenue, private investigator Jay Armes III told Fox News Digital.

In the process, Americans — and visitors from around the world — have become collateral damage, seen gruesome violence or “just disappear, wiped off the face of earth,” Armes said.

Over the last two weeks, cartel members dismembered rival gang members with machetes in tourist hot spot Cancun; a California woman was killed in the crossfire near a popular Tulum beach; and an abducted New York man was left in a secluded jungle with his eyes taped shut.

And that’s just what hits the national news.