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Violence Reaches New Peak In Mexican Drug WarNPRMexican marines run down a street after a gun battle erupted Wednesday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. ...and more »
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Stuff.co.nzMexico drug war: Has Felipe Calderón lost control?Christian Science MonitorA Mexico drug war shootout killed more than a dozen people Tuesday in the tourist town of Taxco, just days after police found a mass grave there with 55 ...Mexican president blames drug violence on cartel rivalryMontreal Gazetteall 694 news articles »
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Mexican army kills 15 suspected drug gang membersReutersThe town is popular with US tourists for its silver crafts and religious festivals but lies on a smuggling route up from the Pacific port of Acapulco. ...and more »
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55 Bodies Recovered from Mass Grave in Southern MexicoLatin American Herald TribuneThe morgues in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero, Iguala and Acapulco are full, forcing officials to consider burying the bodies in another mass grave ...and more »
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Six shot in southern MexicoGlobal TimesAt least three people were killed and three others injured in a shootout at a birthday party Sunday in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, police said. ...and more »
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Most dangerous places in Mexico — and where it's still safe to travelSan Francisco ChronicleThough the deadly shootout in Acapulco in April did not target tourists, it was a departure for the cartels to pull it off in the middle of the day in a ...and more »
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Last month, a US consulate worker and her husband were killed in the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez. The gunfire sent scores of journalists scrambling across the bridge from El Paso and prompted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to pledge more than $300 million to help border cities like Juárez recover from the blight of drug violence. But the spotlight on Juárez masks a broader trend in Mexico: since President Felipe Calderón launched a crackdown on cartels in 2007, the violence has spread south from the border, emptying tourist destinations and shaking the country's largest cities. New cartels have sprung up in once-quiet states and veteran cartels have grown more violent. Calderón has succeeded in capturing and killing key cartel leaders, or jefes, but his drug war has left the entire country dangerously in disarray. "It's obvious that the drug cartels also operate here in the capital," said security expert José Luís Piñeyro, speaking from Mexico City. "We have a major international airport through which they receive drugs from Colombia, weapons from the United States and methamphetamines or pre-cursor chemicals" from all over the world. Earlier this week, Mexico City mayor Marcelo Ebrard admitted that narcos "come and go" as they please in the capital of 20 million. US Drug Enforcement Administration officials privately admit that cartel leaders live in the city's lush suburbs--"they just happen to be smarter about who they kill and when" than in other parts of ...
Obama wants 12 million new Democrat voters The pre-dawn discovery of two bodies cut into pieces and shoved into two black bags brought a tragic end Monday to a search for two missing police officers in the southern state of Guerrero. Law enforcement officials say the bagged body parts were found at 3:15 am (5:15 am EDT; 0915 GMT) outside police headquarters in Guerrero's capital city, Chilpancingo. One of the victims was a regional commander, the other a state police officer. Notes written on yellow cards were attached to the bags, but police refused to disclose what they said. Drug cartel killers frequently attach messages to bodies. In the nearby resort of Acapulco, police later found another two mutilated bodies and a threatening message outside the house of the city's former deputy traffic police chief. The victims were identified as the former deputy chief's nephews, the Guerrero state Public Safety Department said in a statement. Police also found a message threatening supporters of the Beltran Leyva cartel, it said. Police officers have been targets, and are sometimes complicit, in drug-related killings, which have claimed 17900 lives since President Felipe Calderon stepped up the drug war in December 2006. On Sunday, Rodrigo Medina, governor of the northern state of Nuevo Leon, announced that he was firing 81 state police officers suspected of corruption. Also in Nuevo Leon on Sunday, the police chief of the city of Santa Catarina narrowly avoided being killed by ...
Barack Obama has expressed outrage over the murder of two Americans and a Mexican linked to the US consulate in the drug war-plagued Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. The State Department has allowed families of other consulate staff to leave. The attack on the US couple began with a car chase and ended in front of the main border crossing into El Paso, an area heavily patrolled by soldiers, local newspaper El Diario reported. The couples baby girl survived the attack.The Mexican spouse was murdered in an upscale neighborhood of the city when gunmen boxed in his car with other vehicles and shot him, according to a local newspaper photographer who soon arrived at the scene. His wife, who was following in a second car, was unhurt, but their two children were wounded.Calderon was already scheduled to visit Ciudad Juarez on Tuesday, his third trip there in a month, as he scrambles to find a way to deal with a surge in killings that 8000 troops and federal police on the ground have failed to curb.The drug war has killed more than 4600 people in the key manufacturing city in two years, and constant scenes of bullet-ridden vehicles and bodies lying in pools of blood have prompted many middle-class residents to flee.Across Mexico, drug war violence is at its worst level ever, and many US students have heeded warnings not to cross the border this year for their annual spring break vacation.A burst of drug gang clashes killed at least 27 peopleincluding four who were beheaded—this ...
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Eighteen people, including two soldiers, were killed Saturday in a gun battle between the Mexican army and organized-crime suspects in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco. The incident began about 7 pm, when the soldiers went to a location called Avenida Rancho Grande in Acapulco "to investigate information obtained through an anonymous tip and were met by gunfire. Five people were arrested in connection with the shootout. Two soldiers and 16 gunmen were killed, and nine soldiers were wounded. The gunmen were not identified, but the statement called them "members of organized crime."
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ACAPULCO, Mexico - It was a shootout straight from Hollywood in the former playground of its biggest stars: Masked and heavily armed Mexican soldiers battled outlaws holed up in a cliffside mansion in a four-hour shootout that had tourists cowering in
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MEXICO CITY - As if Mexican tourism needed more bad news, a weekend shootout left 18 gunmen and soldiers dead in Acapulco, the iconic if faded beach resort that recently has been working on a comeback.
The hours-long gunfight Saturday night occurred in
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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The Mexican army say, 18 people have been killed in a drugwar, 16 where drug gangsters and 2 where soldiers. The shooting went on all Saturday night 7th of June 2009, and when the fight where over, and a house was stormed by troopers, they found the gangsters heavily armed (se part 2). 36 rifles, 13 pistols, 15 handgrenades, over 3.500 rounds of ammunition, 180 magazines and 8 vehicles. Acapulco is a big town on the Westcoast of Mexico, and a lot of drugs go through its harbors and into USA. The Drugwars is a result of Mexican President Felipe Calderon´s hardline towards the drug empires, and the drug war has already costed 2.300 people their lives in 2009, according to Reuters. 36.000 soldiers and police have raided the drug empires all over Mexico, and the drugwar continues.
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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
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Mexican gang members are seen handcuffed in police custody early on June 7, 2009 in Acapulco, Mexico, after soldiers clashed with members of an organized crime syndicate on the night of June 6.
Sixteen drug cartel hitmen and two Mexican soldiers were
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New York Daily News
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...unclear whether the gunmen belonged to one of the drug cartels that have been fighting for turf in Guerrero state, home to Acapulco and the resort town of Zihuatanejo, the colonel said. The Beltran Leyva cartel, in particular, has a strong presence in Acapulco....
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Soldiers fought for two hours with armed men apparently holding police hostage at a house in Acapulco, leaving one soldier and 15 gunmen dead, a military official said Sunday. (June 7)
Soldiers fought for two hours with armed men apparently holding police hostage at a house in Acapulco, leaving one soldier and 15 gunmen dead, a military official said Sunday. (June 7)
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...arrived, said they'd been held captive by the gunmen, the colonel said. Soldiers did not know the police were inside when the shootout began late Friday night, and the colonel said their claims would be investigated. "We found them like this, handcuffed, and...
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...ACAPULCO, Mexico Three gunmen are dead following a shootout with Mexican army troops in the southern state of Guerrero.State authorities say that police found two assault rifles, two pistols, a grenade and a bag of what appeared to be cocaine in the...
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From 1984 a perfect (for me) italo-disco song Every night in my room I'm wandering Always thinking of you And every step that I take Reminds me Of your wonderful face (Acapulco nights) I hear the voices in the dark tonight you know (Acapulco nights) I hear them calling that's where I wanna go It's a rainy day And this town Is so wetty and cold Maybe I'm wasting my time I'm always Always looking for you (Acapulco nights) I hear the voices in the dark tonight you know (Acapulco nights) I hear them calling that's where I wanna go I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my music Oh I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my feelings I really can't forget those Acapulco nights Every night in my room I'm wandering Always thinking of you And every move that I make Reminds me Of your wonderful face (Acapulco nights) I hear the voices in the dark tonight you know (Acapulco nights) I hear them calling that's where I wanna go I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my music Oh I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my feelings I really can't forget those Acapulco nights I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my music Oh I never can say "goodbye" Cause you, you are my feelings I really can't forget those Acapulco nights Every night in my room I'm wandering Always thinking of you And every step that I take Reminds me Of your wonderful face (Acapulco nights) I hear the voices in the dark tonight you know (Acapulco nights) I hear them calling that's where I ...
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...and soldiers into drug strongholds across Mexico, including Acapulco, but violence continues. Also Friday evening in Acapulco, a shootout between police and alleged kidnappers left one suspect dead and another wounded, Flores said. A businessman believed to...
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...and police carry the body of policeman Agustin Bernal Cruz, 48, after he was killed in a shootout near Acapulco 05/02/2007 Reuters A man's chopped up body was discovered in the Mexican city of Acapulco dumped in plastic garbage bags, police said on Sunday,...
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ACAPULCO, Mexico — The decapitated heads of a police chief and police officer were found early today dumped in front of a government building — the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement earlier this year.
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Houston Chronicle
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...with mixed feelings. The violence was disturbing, but seeing the cops win the shootout was inspiring, he said. ``In Acapulco we have always thought of the city police as being useless,'' he said. ``For a moment we saw them as heroes.'' ...
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The San Jose Mercury News
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...TV footage of the Acapulco firefight left him with mixed feelings. It was disturbing, but seeing the cops win the shootout was inspiring, he said. "In Acapulco we have always thought of the city police as being useless," he said. "For a moment...
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