Fresh decapitations – Acapulco, Tourist Welcome!

[Wolfmoon]

49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-05-13/americas/world_americas_mexico-remains_1_zetas-rival-cartels-jorge-domene?_s=PM:AMERICAS

May 13, 2012

Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said.

The remains were left along the road in Nuevo Leon state, between the cities of Monterrey and Reynosa.

A message written on a wall nearby appeared to refer to the Zetas drug cartel.

 

[MikeK]

Someone I knew back in the seventies moved to Mexico. He told me he'd bought a nice little villa with a pool for $125k and he has a housemaid who comes in and cleans, does laundry and irons three times a week for $35. He said there are thousands of American ex-patriot retirees living in Mexico and they love it there.

I wish I had his address and phone number.

 

[MikeK]

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What's the answer? All I know is that legalizing marijuana and drugs is an ignorant solution.

Really? And what do you call the War On Drugs which has been going on since 1982, has cost a fortune, has imprisoned more citizens for non-violent, non-larcenous "offenses" than Russia and China combined, and has done absolutely nothing to diminish the use of recreational drugs. In fact, every known recreational drug is more readily available today than in '82 -- and they cost less.

I do not advocate sweeping legalization of all recreational drugs because some are highly addictive and biologically harmful. But why do you oppose legalization of marijuana? Do you believe if marijuana were legally available to adults everyone (but you, of course) would run right out and buy a pound? Or are you one of those who believe the things portrayed in Reefer Madness are factual?

You should know that marijuana was decriminalized (virtually legal) in New York City throughout the 1970s and all the results were positive. Arrest rates were reduced significantly and there was no increase in crime, nor was there an increase in the use of dangerous drugs or DUI. In fact there were absolutely no negative effects at all.

So why the resumption of enforcement of marijuana prohibition? Ronald Reagan, the demented right-wing puppet and his ditzy, quaalude junkie wife, Nancy.

If you choose not to believe what I've told you about New York City you can research the effects of pot decriminalization in The Netherlands. Marijuana has been legally available to adults there since 1976 and the only problem they've had is with "drug tourism," which involves increased outgoing smuggling activity. What they've done about it is restrict pot sales to Dutch citizens only.

Gee, we can't keep people from doing destructive things to themselves so let's get tax money off of it.

There is absolutely nothing destructive about marijuana use by adults. So why not derive the substantial tax benefit a legal marijuana (and hemp) crop would provide?

 

[Wolfmoon]

Happy Independence Day in Mexico turns into blood bath

Sunday, September 16, 2012

JALISCO, MEXICO -- The pro-illegal alien supporters should all go Tizapan el Alto to celebrate Mexico’s Independence Day because that’s where all the fun is apparently. The authorities were called to a farm used as a dumping ground where they found 17 men laying in a heap alongside the highway.

The dead men were nude and were all dismembered and they had chains around their necks. Police said that they had been mutilated and their bodies had been stacked near a highway in between Guadalajara and Morelia. The men had been murdered in another location and then their bodied were dumped by the road miles away.

The state prosecutor acted like this sort of thing happens all the time and its common place. “Mexico's crime groups regularly leave behind such grisly remains as they battle for control of trafficking routes and markets”. (To America people, be scared.) He didn’t know who killed the men only that the usual suspects were:

Organized Crime Groups and The Drug Cartels:

Familia Michoacana
Caballeros Templarios
Zeta Drug Cartel
Jalisco Nueva Generacion Cartel

It was reported that last week one group the Caballeros put up nasty banners for the Zetas to read. (It probally said something like "Yo mama’s so fat that she sat on your dad and swallowed him".) Anyway whatever the signs said it got them pretty mad. Let that be a lesson learned if you threaten and piss off the Zetas they will put your head in a sack and mail it to your mother. Or they’ll just carve you up and leave you and your friends in a pile on the side of the road in parts and pieces.

In the same area a shoot-out with the police and an armed convoy of bad guys was reported on September 10th, Monday 2 people were killed and 2 wounded.

“In May, authorities found 18 human heads and remains packed into two abandoned cars along the highway connecting Chapala and Guadalajara, Jalisco.”

“On Friday, September 14, 2012 in Tamaulipas, 16 bodies were found across the state just two days after the arrest there of one of the region’s top drug bosses, Gulf Cartel head Eduardo Costilla Sanchez. Nine of the bodies were found in Nuevo Laredo along the Texas border and seven were found in near the town of San Fernando, where 74 dead migrants were found in August, 2010.”

Does anyone think we should close the border before the violence spills over more than it already has? I do.



SOURCE:

17 mutilated bodies found in central Mexico
http://news.yahoo.com/17-mutilated-bodies-found-central-mexico-183548193.html

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[Wolfmoon]

Nearly 50 mutilated bodies dumped on Mexico highway

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47403755/ns/world_news-americas/t/nearly-mutilated-bodies-dumped-mexico-highway/

Zetas drug gang claims responsibility

CADEREYTA JIMENEZ, MEXICO — Suspected drug gang killers dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey in one of the country's worst atrocities in recent years.

The mutilated corpses of 43 men and 6 women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez in the early hours of Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.

The brutal Zetas drug gang claimed responsibility for the murders in a message found at the scene.

 

[Wolfmoon]

23 bodies found hanging from a bridge and or stuffed into iceboxes and garbage bags on the U.S. border.

Friday, May 4, 2012

MEXICO CITY-- There is two different locations that the police discovered the 23 dead people. First Location they found 5 men and 4 women hanging from a bridge in Nuevo Laredo a couple of miles across the border from Laredo, Texas. Doesn’t it just make ya feel all warm and fuzzy inside? They’re such a peaceful people and hard workers too. One was probably mowing lawns in America last week. The police don’t know who was responsible for the murders probably because if they knew they’d end up dead too, true story. Evidently, The Zeta drug cartel left a message at the scene. That should have given them some indication. The Zeta cartel was founded by deserters from the Mexican Special Forces, so they have skills Para military skills.

A few hours later at a second location the authorities found 14 people who were mutilated and dismembered and shoved into old ice boxes and Hefty garbage bags and delivered near the police station in Nuevo Laredo. I guess they didn’t want the police to miss them. People living in Laredo, Texas can actually walk to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico over the international bridge.

“More than 50,000 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown on traffickers after taking office in late 2006 and deployed tens of thousands of federal police and soldiers across Mexico.”

In June police found 14 bloody, dead men piled in a minivan parked near the town hall in Nuevo Laredo. Gee, that must be a swell city. A couple of days later a grenade went off inside a car in front of the police station.

“At least 20 suspected drug gang members, one police officer and a soldier have been killed in six confrontations in Sinaloa, Mexico since April 28”.

All these murders and no one seems to know anything about anything and no one is ever arrested, I wonder why?



SOURCE:

23 bodies found hanging, dumped in Mexico drug cartel war
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/us-mexico-drugs-idUSBRE8431D120120504

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[Wolfmoon]

Journalists Hacked 2 Bits

In my opinion,

MEXICO, CITY – In 2012 Reporters Without Borders says that world’s deadliest countries for journalists are:

1. Pakistan
2. Iraq
3. Mexico

In 2011 the Mexican National Commission on Human Rights said that, since 2000, 70 journalists had been killed and 13 were missing. There have also been 22 attacks on media organizations.”

The Mexican newspapers in Mexico have had everything happen to them from their employees being abducted while sitting in traffic to their buildings being bombed with grenades and attacked with assault weapons during business hours.

Some journalist have been dragged out of their houses and chopped to bits and pieces for the articles they have written showing the drug people in “A Bad Light”. The journalists are deathly afraid as a group some writers actually flee their homes to escape death because of all the death threats they receive.

The journalists are usually brutally murdered and displayed as a warning to others who dare to write negative things about dirty cops or the drug gangs. The police rarely, if not at all ,ever solved their murders. Freedom of Speech is stifled by murder in Mexico. Open your mouth against the drug cartels and they will kill you is the "Golden Rule".

If we Americans don’t want that in our streets then we must demand that our politicians close the southern border. As it is, anyone can traipse across the border easily even women and small children cross the border with ease.

JOURNALISTS KILLED:

On Saturday, April 26, 2012

Regina Martinez was a journalist from Xalapa, Mexico she worked in Veracruz for Mexico largest news magazine called Proceso. She wrote about the goings on with the drug traffickers and the many dirty cops who worked for the drug cartels. They didn’t like her writing and her body was found in Xalapa she had been beaten to a bloody pulp and suffocated. The United Nations' human rights office in Geneva condemned her death. That doesn’t do her any good now because she’d dead. She may have been killed by the same people who were supposed to protect her, the police.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, 55 was an editor and writer for Notiver newspaper he wrote about politics and crime. Armed thugs charged his Veracruz home in the early morning hours and shot him to death. They also killed wife Agustina and their son, Misael who was only 21 yrs. old.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The body of Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz was found dumped in front of a competitive newspapers building she had her throat cut. The police say unknown suspects killed Yolanda Ordaz in Notiver, Mexico. She made her living by being a police reporter she was a long time employee. Her murder remains a mystery.

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Two journalists Guillermo Luna who had worked for the Veracruznews and Gabriel Huge who worked as a police reporter in Notiver, Mexico were found dead. Their mutilated remains and heads were pulled up from the bottom of a canal. Both men were stuffed into large plastic garbage bags and they had been hacked to bits. Their bodies were found in the town of Boca del Rio in the eastern state of Veracruz.

One of Gabriel Luna’s co-workers said that Luna had received death threats shortly before his death and that he stayed out of state as much as he possibly could because he was in fear of his life.

There were 2 other mutilated water logged bodies found in garbage bags at the bottom of that canal but the police haven’t been able to identify them. The killers remain at large.

The best scenario the police can come up with is “The violence comes as the ultra-violent Zetas gang battles the Sinaloa Cartel over billion-dollar drug trafficking routes up the coast into the United States.”

Some people think that legalizing drugs in the America will end the violence but I think it will escalate the violence. The drug cartels won’t take it lying down and they’ll act out in the U.S. the same way their doing in Mexico. I don’t think anyone wants to see young adults and children slaughter because they stepped on the Drug cartels toes.



SOURCE:

Two Mexican journalists found dismembered in eastern Mexico
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/03/us-mexico-attacks-idUSBRE8421GS20120503

Mexico: Missing journalist Yolanda Ordaz found killed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14305364

Gunmen in Mexico kill crime journalist Lopez Velasco
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13853748

 

[HUGGY]

Fresh decapitations – Acapulco

I like my decapitations "fresh". Doesn't everyone?

 

[Wolfmoon]

7 Dismember bodies found today and 17 bodies found Monday on the Same Stretch of Highway in Beautiful Western Mexico! Tourist Welcome!!

Saturday, September 22, 2012

In my opinion,

MORELIA, MEXICO – Hot off the presses authorities say they found 7 gruesome dismembered bodies in the bed of a pickup this morning on a state highway just east of Lake Chapala. The bodies had been burned to a crisp, crunchy style. It’s unknown if they were bagged up.

It must be a popular area because police say on the same highway 12 miles away they found 17 bodies on Monday, September 17, 2012. Oh, I get it 17 bodies on the 17th day, very clever.



SOURCE:

7 bodies found along highway in Mexico
http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2019231671_apltdrugwarmexico.html?syndication=rss

They're a Gentle People... Very loving.

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[Wolfmoon]

2 severed heads found in Mexican capital
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/03/world/americas/mexico-decapitated-heads/index.html

Monday, October 3, 2012

The drug gang called "The Hand with Eyes" fest up to leaving 2 human heads in a car with a long letter near Mexico City!

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Authorities found two severed heads in a vehicle along a highway in Mexico City on Monday morning. The city's attorney general said this about the letter: "It ends saying that the territory of 'The Hand with Eyes' is so extensive that it has reached the metropolitan area and hasn't disappeared."

In August the Mexican police arrested the gang’s leader Oscar Osvaldo Garcia who is called the 'The Hand with Eyes'.

The two people who were decapitated have not been identified as of yet.

The new tourism slogan is "Mexico is Sooo, Beautiful You'll Lose Your Head over It!"

“Last week authorities in the beach resort city of Acapulco made a similar discovery, finding five severed human heads inside a small wooden crate.” How quaint.

“Eric Olson, a security expert at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington said, "It hasn't exploded the way it has (elsewhere). There's always that fear of that happening, because there's nothing to guarantee that it won't."”

YIKES!

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[Wolfmoon]

MAN BEHEADED IN BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA!

Police found a man stabbed and Decapitated just 40 miles south of Phoenix, Arizona. He was living in an apartment complex where the illegal aliens stack themselves into 20 per apartment. (The slumlord must be so proud.) An illegal alien living in the complex has been arrested for the gruesome killing.

CHANDLER, ARIZONA -- Crisantos Moroyoqui, 36 was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder and hindering prosecution. When they found Moroyoqui he was covered in blood from head to toe and the police found his bloody foots prints from the victim’s apartment to his apartment. (Clue ya think) He gave the police a phony ID and they took him in. Moroyoqui has exercised his right to remain silent. (Until the ACLU shows up.)

According to neighbors and residents they were drinking along with 3 other men who participated in the decapitation and stabbing. The man was beheaded in between 4:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. and left on the kitchen floor in a pool of his own blood bleeding worse than a stuck pig. Then the three other men took off in a 2003 red Ford Expedition with California license plate 6FWR784.

The Three other bad hombres are armed and dangerous: (Ya think, I guess they say that because they'll cut your head off if you get into their way!)

1. Juan Campos Morales Aguilar, also known as Asai. He is about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, 220 pounds, and has short dark hair and a thin mustache. He was last seen wearing a black shirt, a white T-shirt and jeans.

2. Jose David Castro Reyes, 25. He is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, is clean-shaven and has short hair. He was wearing jeans, a white shirt and a white T-shirt.

3. The third suspect is known only as El Joto. He is about 5 feet, 3 inches tall, with short, spiked black hair and a goatee. He was wearing a white T-shirt, a black pattern shirt and Levis.

If anyone has any information on them they’re encouraged to call authorities.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office:
Phone: (602) 876-1801 Fax: (602) 258-2081



SOURCE:

1 arrested, 3 sought in beheading in Chandler

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2010/10/12/20101012beheaded1012.html

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[HUGGY]

Fresh decapitations – Acapulco, Tourist Welcome!

Are you sure they are fresh? We were told in the travel guide that the decapitations in Acapulco were always fresh.

 

[Wolfmoon]

Do you think the decapitator's have the internet and they get a charge whenever they read about their handy work online?

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[4Horsemen]

One thing I'm learning about the Mexican culture is that they're a very cruel culture. The men are cruel to their animals and cruel to their women & children and they're ruthless to their enemies.

They enjoy blood sport. I read in the L.A. Times once where the drug cartel enjoy putting people in a 55 gallon barrel drum filled with
flammable fluids. They put a car tire around their victims neck and then they set them on fire. They drink Tequila, smoke dope, joke and party and even making bets while watching their victim(s) burn up alive.

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It comes from the worship of Dios DeMuerta. Goddess of the Dead. they worship that shit and thus need blood sacrifices to appease their God for power and strength.

the are total Demons now and have no souls.

the Navy Seals should go down there and wipe out their leaders and the rest will dissapate.

 

[Wolfmoon]

Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun

http://nworeport.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/six-strangled-one-decapitated-in-mexican-resort-of-cancun/

April, 14, 2013

“CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – Six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state’s deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks. The bodies that were found in a shack were five men and two women”

“Last month six people died and five were injured after two men opened fire in a bar on the outskirts of Cancun. In a separate incident, police on Sunday found the body of another man in Cancun who had been gagged, bound and wrapped in sheets.”

 

[Wolfmoon]

Human remains found in dumpster at Phoenix apartments

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/21975140/2013/04/14/human-remains-found-in-dumpster-at-phoenix-apartments

Apr 14, 2013

“PHOENIX, ARIZONA - Police confirm human remains were found in the dumpster around 8:30 a.m. Those living at the apartments say someone saw a car drop off the garbage bags (2) around 7 or 7:30 a.m.”

“A resident arrived home Sunday morning to find crime scene tape cornering off a dumpster at the back of the Desert Villa Apartments on 25th Street and Cave Creek Road. Police aren't saying if they have suspect information. A neighbor thinks the killer was trying to send a message. Witnesses told FOX 10, there were an unusual amount of flies by the dumpster and when they looked in, they saw a body part sticking out of a garbage bag.” Who wants to bet this is the drug cartels work?

COMING TO YOUR TOWN SOON! but they work cheap!

 

[waltky]

Stores ransacked after two deadly storms struck Mexico...

Acapulco hit by looting as tourists airlifted
Thu, Sep 19, 2013 - Mexican military and commercial flights airlifted hundreds of tourists stranded in the flooded resort of Acapulco on Tuesday, where thousands of looters ransacked stores after two deadly storms struck the country.

The official death toll rose to 47 after the tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, swamped large swaths of Mexico during a three-day holiday weekend, sparking landslides and causing rivers to overflow in several states. Several regions were still being battered by heavy rains and floods. While Ingrid dissipated after hitting the east coast on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center said Manuel regenerated as a tropical depression south of the Baja California Peninsula. Officials said 40,000 Mexican and foreign tourists were marooned in Acapulco hotels after landslides blocked the two main highways out of the Pacific city, while knee-high dark water covered the airport’s terminal, cutting off the picturesque resort city of 680,000 people.

Back in town, thousands of looters streamed out of the Costco wholesale store in the exclusive Diamante district, wading out of the flooded store with food, televisions and even fridges, while soldiers and federal police looked on, correspondents said. “We are taking food to our children, there’s nothing to eat,” a woman hauling away grocery bags said. Other looters broke glass doors to enter shops in two malls, snatching home appliances and mattresses. “We can’t stop them. We are in a serious emergency situation,” a soldier said, declining to give his name. Meanwhile, tourists and residents formed huge lines to buy food at the three supermarkets that remained open.

Mexican Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong warned it would take two to three days to reopen the two highways out of Acapulco, which lies in the hard-hit southwestern state of Guerrero. The airport terminal remained closed, but passengers were driven directly to the runway from a concert hall turned into a shelter and operations center for the airport. The military, and the Aeromexico and Interjet airlines began to fly people to Mexico City. Mexican Transport Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said about 600 people had been flown out so far.

Interjet president Miguel Aleman Magnani said flying into Acapulco was complicated, because the radar was out and there were few dry spots on the runway. “It’s all visual — like in the old days,” he told radio station Formula. Aeromexico said it planned to fly 2,000 people out by yesterday. About 2,000 people were being sheltered at the World Imperial Forum, where tourists lined up at an improvised airline counter, luggage in hand, hoping to get on a flight. Another 1,000 people were taking refuge in a convention center. The airlines were transporting people with prior reservations first. Aeromexico was charging US$115 and Interjet US$77 for new tickets.

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[bianco]

There are more beheading in Mexico than there are in the Middle East.

5 decapitated bodies found in Acapulco

August 20, 2011

At a Sam’s Club (like Walmart/Costco) in Acapulco Mexico authorities found 2 decapitated bodies their faces and hair had been scalped and the bodies were cut up into about 2 dozen pieces and certain parts were stuffed in a woman’s purse.

On Saturday 3 more decapitated bodies were found in a car less than a 1000 feet from the same Sam’s Club. They say one of the victims was woman, I wonder if it was her purse they used. The corpus heads were not with the bodies. Some gas station owners closed their stations in protest.

Won't it be 'fun' when America becomes 'Mexico'.

 

[waltky]

Mexico police attacked in Acapulco...

Mexico police under gun attack in Acapulco
Mon, 25 Apr 2016 - Police officers come under attack in a two-hour gunfight in the Mexican city of Acapulco.

Several gunmen attacked a hotel where officers stay, in the tourist area Las Playas on Sunday evening. Dozens of people had to shelter in shops while shooting continued, until after 23:00 local time (04:00 GMT). One suspected gunman was killed when police returned fire. Officers then chased other gunmen through the streets before securing the area. At the same time, a separate group of gunmen attacked a federal police base in the city. Mexico's federal authorities have called an emergency meeting with the local authorities to discuss the incident.

Man in helmet and bulletproof holds machine gun in air; it's night time; the black vest contrasts with his white short sleeved T shirt​

Guerrero state Governor Hector Astudillo Flores told Imagen radio that the gang members were taking revenge for the arrest of their leader, last Friday. Freddy del Valle Berdel, known as "The Donkey," is the presumed leader of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel in Acapulco. "We have information that this is a retaliation for his detention. It was the federal police who arrested him and the attack was against federal police officers," said Mr Astudillo.

Some universities in Acapulco have cancelled classes for Monday but local media (link in Spanish) report that according to education authorities, schools will still be open. The US department of state has warned American consular staff not to travel to Acapulco, saying that Guerrero was the most violent state in Mexico in 2015. Tens of thousands of people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico in the past decade.

Mexico police under gun attack in Acapulco - BBC News

 

[waltky]

Can't say ya weren't warned...

Police, soldiers swarm Mexico's Acapulco, killings continue
May 22,`16 -- Along with beach towels or sandals, there's a new popular beach accessory that says a lot about the violence gripping this once-glamorous resort: a small black leather tote hanging from the neck or shoulders of some men. It's not a man-bag, exactly; it holds a small pistol.

"When I saw you guys standing outside my office, I almost went for my bag," said one businessman who lives in terror after getting death threats and extortion demands by criminal gangs at his office four blocks from the water. "I'm in fear for my life." Death can strike anywhere in Acapulco these days: A sarong vendor was slain on the beach in January by a gunman who escaped on a Jet Ski. Another man was gunned down while enjoying a beer at a seaside restaurant. In the hillside slums that ring the city, a 15-year-old girl's body was found chopped into pieces and wrapped in a blanket, her severed head in a bucket nearby with a hand-lettered sign from a drug gang. The upsurge in killings has made Acapulco one of Mexico's most violent places, scaring away what international tourism remained and recently prompting the U.S. government to bar its employees from traveling here for any reason.

In response, Mexico has lined the city's coastal boulevard with heavily armed police and soldiers, turning Acapulco into a high-profile test case for a security strategy that the government has used elsewhere: When homicides spike, flood the area with troops. Today it's almost easier to find a truck full of soldiers, a federal policeman or a gaggle of local tourist cops than it is to find a taxi along the "costera," the seaside boulevard that runs through the hotel zone. Marines patrol the beach, while federal police watch over the breakwaters. "This area has been made bulletproof," Guerrero state prosecutor Xavier Olea said.

A taxi drives past the Cuauhtemoc Housing Unit and a municipal sign with a message that reads in Spanish; "Building the new Acapulco" in Acapulco, Mexico. The city's latest wave of killings began April 24, when bursts of gunfire broke out along the coastal boulevard. The murder rate in this city of 800,000 hit 146 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2012. It has since fallen to about 112 per 100,000, but that remains far higher than nationwide levels.​

Except it hasn't. A week after AP reporters visited, gunmen shot to death three young men in broad daylight two blocks away from the restaurant; two of their bullet-ridden bodies lay on the concrete just off the beach, and one bled out on the sand. Two were waiters, and the third a roving coconut oil vendor. On a recent day, farther down the beach, another black bag hung around the neck of a man nicknamed "the lieutenant." He works as a bodyguard for a man with underworld connections who agreed to meet near an open-air restaurant to discuss the security situation. He spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being targeted by rivals or authorities. "There are 300 paid killers on the costera," the underworld figure said, gesturing expansively over plates of fried fish and shrimp. At least one other bodyguard was nearby. "A decent killer makes about 5,000 pesos ($275) a week."

Experts say Acapulco shows the limitations of the government's security strategy. Federal police, almost none of whom are from the city, quickly get lost once they leave the coastal boulevard and ascend into twisting, hillside neighborhoods. Their heavy weapons are ill-suited to urban policing, and they're hampered as well by Mexico's unwieldy judicial system and a lack of investigative training. Last week two men were shot and wounded on the street a block from the popular Caleta beach. Police showed up, but when no ambulance arrived, relatives or friends simply bundled the men into private vehicles to take them to the hospital. Police marked spent shell casings with cut-off plastic soda bottles, but there was no sign of any in-depth investigation. "It's the same problem in Guerrero, the same problem in Tamaulipas, in Michoacan," security analyst Alejandro Hope said, referring to three states where homicides have spiked. "Suddenly there's an emergency, they send troops to where the problem is and in the short term crime drops. But then there is an emergency somewhere else, and then the troops have to leave, and they have not developed local law-enforcement capacity."

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