Bitter Mexico drugs war breaks out in Acapulco

[Karmadillo]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11593386.htm

MEXICO CITY, Aug 11 (Reuters) - A fierce fight between Mexican drug cartels that has killed more than 600 people this year has now hit the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco with gangland executions and grenade attacks on sun-kissed streets.

At least four people were murdered in the city of a million people this week as two rival gangs battle for control of marijuana and opium production in the surrounding mountains.

The federal government urged spooked regional authorities on Thursday to stand firm against veteran drug barons, whose feud has already engulfed cities on the U.S.-Mexican border.

"This is completely new for us," Acapulco's mayor, Alberto Lopez Rosas, told Reuters by telephone. "It is an upsetting situation which has surprised all of us in Acapulco."

More used to the sound of margarita glasses clinking than the crack of assault weapons, the resort was rocked last week by the killing of a senior detective, shot dead by a top hitman known as "Tony Tormenta" (Tony Storm) from the Gulf Cartel of northeastern Mexico.

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[sweetheart]

1. Cartel government

What do they expect. The government is run by prison cartels these
days, and they shift the liberal dark skinned drugs war prisoners to
the republican districts and count them as "population" to inflate their
numbers to scam elections... so that criminal cartels are "our"
government(s). (exhale) :-)

Democracy and goodwill have become "just another victem of the drugs
war." It is so pathetic, this preventable tragedy based on teenager
fears that free will is "dirty" like sex must be for these criminal pricks' minds.