Violent Continues in Popular Mexican Tourism Areas

“Marring the Easter season in Mexico, a new spate of violence linked to organized crime has broken out in Guerrero, the southern Mexican state famous for the sunny tourist resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo. Since late March, executions and grenade attacks in the two internationally known port cities, and along the adjoining Costa Grande region, have left at least 12 people dead and 39 injured. Conspicuous among the victims of the bloodbath are current and former policemen, businessmen, lawyers, government employees, taxi drivers, and innocent bystanders. Adding to a growing public alarm is the brazen nature of many attacks, some of which have been carried out on the Costera main drag of Acapulco where tourist hotels and eateries abound. “

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