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Title: In Mexico, 13 killed in Acapulco area, 11 others elsewhere in Guerrero Five police officers are slain and the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men are found in Acapulco just as foreign tourists are arriving for spring break.
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URL Source: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation- ... co14-2010mar14,0,5589087.story
Published: Mar 15, 2010
Author: Tracy Wilkinson
Post Date: 2010-03-15 13:36:27 by Horse
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Reporting from Mexico City At least 13 people were killed Saturday, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors have begun arriving for spring break. Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said. The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m. Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years. The government is especially sensitive to reports of drug-war violence in tourist destinations such as Acapulco and Cancun. But no region is immune. Guerrero state is one of Mexico's most violent: Its position on the Pacific coast makes it a prime transit route for smuggling narcotics to the U.S. and coveted turf for warring cartels. In June, as Acapulco was putting its hopes on a recovering tourist industry, 18 gunmen and soldiers were killed in battles one weekend in one of the city's seaside neighborhoods. News channels have been showing video of young U.S., Canadian and European tourists already frolicking on the beaches of Acapulco, as if to say "maybe this year" and convey a sense of normality. And this weekend is a holiday; thousands of Mexican tourists were headed to Acapulco to take advantage of a three-day weekend marking the birthday of 19th century President Benito Juarez. Heriberto Salinas Altes, head of public security for Guerrero, said authorities were expecting an increase in violence because of newly exploded power struggles among drug gangs. "We wish to say that security for visitors [to Acapulco] as well as for people who live here is guaranteed," Salinas told La Jornada newspaper. More than 18,000 people have been killed in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon deployed the army to battle cartels in December 2006.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
So how do those dead people cash in on that guarantee?
ah ! he 'wished' to SAY that...lol
Chiclets
The World is being held hostage by an international terrorist organization best described as INTERNATIONAL (JEWISH) BANKERS. Their willing accomplices in government and media should swing from the rope just like the banking elites.
I know of little more than your report, but can say it has been big news here in Colima. Evidentally the US Consulate office is advising citizens to strongly consider leaving the country ASAP, esp in the frontier areas. Strong words, and I believe the report in the Colima paper said that the families of US Consulate officers were leaving immeadiatly. (I am now at the point to where I have forgotten English and don´t know Spanish) FWITW, saw Federales, at least one in all black and a black ski mask, plenty of guns, along a atreet Sue and I walked past just ninety minutes ago. They were blocking Mexicans from entering the street, but as (I friqqing suppose)we were already walking up from Lake Chapala, I just doused a beer in front of the ski mask guy, and nobody paid any attention to us. I have to imagine that Pres. Calduron´s ultimatim to the narcotrafficers a few months ago is being answered with the appalling mass murders in Alcopolco yesterday. Anyway, seems trouble is brewing down here, and I sense a lot of the common Mexicans are friggin fed up with the violence and impunity of the criminals. Corruption runs deep here and will be difficult to destroy. A lesson for the Estado Unitos. Personally - Sue and I are having a womderful time. OMG - You should see our MAGNIFICENT colonial hotel room and gardens. We literally can pick sweet ripe oranges out of the trees. We are now at a sweet place called Ajijic and are looking to be here for three days or so. Been cold here today tho, got down to 77. Letting it warm up in Colorado Springs seems like a good idea.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" "We wish to say that security for visitors [to Acapulco] as well as for people who live here is guaranteed," Salinas told La Jornada newspaper.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#2. To: FormerLurker (#1)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#3. To: FormerLurker (#1)
So how do those dead people cash in on that guarantee?
#4. To: Horse, cynicom, christine, jethro tull, tommythemadartist (#0)
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