No backing off here, the cartels had a short lull in the Killings for the new year but are now back at it.
Beheadings,shootings and displaying the Victims for everyone to see is now the norm in Mexico;sounds like a nice place to visit.
Foxnews
ACAPULCO, Mexico – The body of a murdered man was found Monday on the main highway to Acapulco, bringing to 31 the number of people killed in the Pacific resort city over four days.
The unidentified man was shot several times in the head and found under a pedestrian bridge with his shirt pulled over his face, said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of the investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.
Leyva said federal, state and local police planned to meet Monday with the military to consider ways to beef up security in Acapulco, where 14 decapitated men and two police officers were among the unusually high body count since Friday evening.
Most of the killings occurred in just a few hours from Friday night to Saturday in non-tourist areas of the city. But the officers were shot to death in front of tourists on Avenida Costero Miguel Aleman, the hotel-lined thoroughfare that runs along the bay.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Resort City's Toll to 31 Dead in 4 Days
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Mass grave of drug war victims found in Mexico
Another mass Grave.
These are possibly the bodies of the tourists that were kidnapped in september.
(Reuters) - Mexican authorities near the Pacific resort city of Acapulco discovered a hidden mass grave filled with what they believed to be victims of the country's drug war, local media reported on Wednesday.
Authorities have dug at least 18 bodies out of the grave, newspapers El Universal and Milenio reported.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
3 headless, tortured bodies found outside Acapulco; 5 shot to death north of Mexican resort
Acapulco , Apparently not such a nice place to vacation anymore , I guess the Cartels need some R&R too.
Foxnews
ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Three headless bodies showing signs of torture were found just outside Acapulco and the bodies of five other men with multiple gunshot wounds were discovered in a car north of the Pacific resort, police said Saturday.
Police in the southwestern state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, said the three beheaded men appeared to be in their 20s and 30s, but their identities and a motive had not been determined. They were found on a peninsula a few miles south of Acapulco.
About 50 miles (80 kilometers) north, near the small town of Tecpan de Galeana, police discovered five bodies in a car left on a dirt road about 100 yards (90 meters) off a main highway.
A police report said all five men had been repeatedly shot. Two bodies were in the front of the vehicle and three in the trunk, the report said.
The U.S. State Department warned this week that parts of Guerrero state could be dangerous for travelers due to drug violence.
At the same time, the travel warning noted that Mexican officials make a concerted effort to protect foreign tourists and that "resort areas ... in Mexico do not see the levels of drug-related violence and crime reported in the border region and in areas along major drug trafficking routes."
More than 22,700 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Eighteen killed in Acapulco drug shootout
Acapulco ! Maybe not such a nice place to visit anymore .
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ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - Eighteen people were killed in a shootout between drug gangs and soldiers in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco, the army said on Sunday.
The gun battle, near tourist hotels in the Pacific Ocean resort, was a further blow to Mexico's tourism industry, already reeling from cancellations by foreigners scared away by the swine flu epidemic.
Gunmen battled troops from a cartel safe house, throwing hand grenades at soldiers who had surrounded them and spraying gunfire into military vehicles and nearby homes. The shooting began late on Saturday and went on until after midnight.
"There were grenade and rocket explosions, and weapons like AK-47s," said an employee of a neighboring hotel. "The fight lasted almost two hours."
Sixteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were killed as well as two soldiers, including a captain.
