Acapulco’s loss of innocence. Resort no longer off-limits to violence of drug cartels

“This seaside resort was once a place of fairy tales, where the world’s rich and famous vacationed in villas while their yachts bobbed on the waves of Acapulco’s bay.

Even Mexico’s drug traffickers played a role in the illusion. For years, they set aside their rivalries and came here with their families to take a holiday from crime, law enforcement officials say, shielding Acapulco from the drug wars that ravaged other Mexican cities.”

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