there is absolutely NOTHING going mexco for that's worth your life...
Posted on 10/02/2010 5:09:20 PM PDT by Dallas59
MEXICO CITY (AFP) – A heavily armed gang kidnapped about 20 Mexican tourists in the beach resort city of Acapulco earlier this week and their whereabouts are still unknown, police said Saturday.
The tourists from Morelia in neighboring Michoacan state were "deprived of their liberty" Thursday when they were overtaken by an armed group, prosecutors said in a statement, adding they did not know the identity of the gunmen or the fate of those abducted.
"On Thursday night, about 20 people were abducted by armed men as they arrived in Acapulco. There is no immediate word on there whereabouts, the suspected kidnappers or their motive," Guerrero police investigator Fernando Monreal told AFP.
The prosecutor's office in the southern state of Guerrero earlier said 22 tourists had been nabbed. But police said at least two of the abducted people managed to escape.
Michoacan is the base for La Familia, a powerful drug cartel whose reach stretches to Guerrero, a major hub for drug trafficking.
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Honestly, if I had to choose, I’d rather go to Cuba than Mexico for a vacation. But the feds say Mexico is okay for tourists and Cuba isn’t? HUH????
The Washington Post
Thursday, October 11, 2001; Page C01
Acapulco’s Faded Magic
By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
ACAPULCO — Time has not changed the dives.
Acapulco’s cliff divers still hurl themselves off a tiny ledge 105 feet above a narrow, churning channel of seawater just 12 feet deep. They still fly for more than three
seconds, breaking the water with clenched fists at speeds of more than 50 miles per hour.
But time has changed everything else.
From the late ‘40s through the ‘60s, Acapulco was the fountain of cool. It swung, it was hep, it was hip, it was ring-a-ding-ding. Sinatra was here, and Sammy Davis
Jr. and Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Brigitte Bardot, Sean Connery when he was licensed to kill, Tom Jones and his hips, Rocky Marciano and his fists, and don’t forget
Sal Mineo. Apollo 7 astronaut Wally Schirra came when buzz-cut astronauts were as cool as a three-olive martini and people drank Tang.
They called it the Mexican Riviera, and it was as hot as Saint-Tropez and as cool as Havana before Castro. It was elegance: Hedy Lamarr married here and Lana
Turner lived here. It even had a certain gravitas: The Nixons spent their 25th anniversary here, the Kissingers honeymooned here (Henry got a lot of work done, too),
and no-nonsense Ike came to meet the Mexican president.
The glitterati came here, to the cliffs at La Quebrada, to see divers called Monkey and Fatso and the Doctor defy death for pennies. When Acapulco was hot enough
for Jack and Jackie’s honeymoon, for one of Liz Taylor’s weddings (to Mike Todd) and for Elvis to chase Ursula Andress around in a movie called “Fun in
Acapulco,” the divers were every jet-setter’s favorite souvenir photo.
But time has dulled Acapulco’s allure,
MORE———>>> http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/mexico/acapulco.htm
The tourists were from Michoacan which is the base of “La Familia” the group that did the kidnapping. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a number of the victims are members of rival gangs.
Any comment from Neil Diamond on this development?
there is absolutely NOTHING going mexco for that's worth your life...
Try Colombia for a vacation. You will be pleasantly surprised.
So what's the deal? Is it harvest time? I can't imaging that the drug cartels need ransom money. They'd need slave labor to work the fields.
-PJ
...or my money. I wouldn’t spend a dollar there after all the ilk they cause us minute by minute. If I won a trip I’d book it and not go!
Yet another reason for folks from civilized countries to avoid Mexico like the plague...as if there weren’t enough reasons already.
yup...
Must be democrats any republican should know Mexico is a toilet.. even RINOs..
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3962957,00.html
“22 kidnapped in Mexican resort city of Acapulco”
Published: 10.03.10, 00:39 / Israel News
(AP)
SNIPPET: “Gunmen kidnapped 22 men who were traveling together in Mexico’s Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, authorities said Saturday.”
wish they would come to the US and start kidnapping Mexicans
Ping!
My initial thought was, “20 men? On vacation together? In Acapulco? Don’t ask, don’t tell...”
Colonel, USAFR
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