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Armed gang storms Mexico beach, executes 2 drug dealers in front of Cancun luxury resort
ktla ^ | Nov 5, 2021

Posted on 11/05/2021 2:28:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover at the resort of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun.

The two suspected drug dealers killed Thursday had apparently arrived at the beach in front of the Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun earlier in the day, claiming it was now their territory.

“About 15 people arrived on the beach [by boat] to assassinate two men who had showed up saying they were the new dealers in the area,” the head prosecutor of Quintana Roo state, Oscar Montes de Oca, told the Radio Formula station.

Guests at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun posted videos and photos of tourists hiding or nervously milling in the lobby and hallways of hotels during the incident.

Guests at the nearby Azul Beach Resort also posted videos of people taking shelter or gathering in the lobby. An employee who answered the phone at the hotel said the shooting occurred on the beach near the facility.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: cancun; mexico; oldnews
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1 posted on 11/05/2021 2:28:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I like it when drug dealers die.

They sell death.


2 posted on 11/05/2021 2:33:59 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BenLurkin

The new Drug Dealers probably had not gotten their CCP shots and the enforcers from Mexican OSHA were fining them.


3 posted on 11/05/2021 2:34:23 PM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: BenLurkin

Boy, that covid-19 can strike anywhere.


4 posted on 11/05/2021 2:36:17 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: BenLurkin

“...claiming it was now their territory.”

Someone begged to differ.


5 posted on 11/05/2021 2:36:38 PM PDT by decal (MOLON JABE)
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To: BenLurkin

Climate change made them do it.


6 posted on 11/05/2021 2:58:02 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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Drug gangs kill members of another drug gang?

Works for me.


7 posted on 11/05/2021 2:58:35 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t worry about the shootings, folks - half off margaritas until midnight!


8 posted on 11/05/2021 2:59:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

I hereby rename it Can’tcun.


9 posted on 11/05/2021 3:04:47 PM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: BenLurkin

“...Armed gang storms Mexico beach...”
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Just to clarify, this was a beach in Mexico,
NOT Mexico Beach, Florida...


10 posted on 11/05/2021 3:09:42 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Agree. But I prefer the Singaporean method of a clinical good old fashioned hanging away from the tourists.


11 posted on 11/05/2021 3:24:42 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: BenLurkin

Some tourists got a culturally authentic experience.


12 posted on 11/05/2021 3:43:03 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: BenLurkin

I lived in Mexico City and Cuernavaca in the sixties and even then we lived behind ten foot walls with broken glass on top. My father had a chauffeur who was actually carrying heat for protection. We never, ever walked the streets alone. Years ago my wife and I vacationed in the Riviera Maya but I’ll never go back to any part of Mexico again, too dangerous.


13 posted on 11/05/2021 3:44:31 PM PDT by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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in the early 80's, when we still had young kids, we decided to bop into Juarez for a couple of hrs...we were so naïve....

we just drove across the bridge....immediately accosted by some scammer who would "show" us all the good spots to go...well we followed him a little bit, and he wanted to be paid like $20...we gave him $8....

we got out alive....

and at another time, with another couple, we took the shuttle over from El Paso, and ate and drank at a little spot just outside some kind of market. Little kids with drugged out eyes would go table to table selling chicklets. on the way back, we got off the shuttle to go inside a grocery store to see if we could get a good price on liquor.

nothing at all happened to us but when I see the violence in Mexico especially Juarez, I'm glad I'm alive to remember.

14 posted on 11/05/2021 3:51:37 PM PDT by cherry
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To: BenLurkin

There is a PGA tour golf tournament right now at Mayakoba which I think is near Cancun. Is Mayakoba anywhere near where these murders just happened?


15 posted on 11/05/2021 3:58:35 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

Interesting thought. Per Google Maps Mayakoba is 34km, 34 minutes down the coast


16 posted on 11/05/2021 4:07:08 PM PDT by Patriot95
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To: cherry

I remember when my Dad was pulled over by a local cop between Mexico City and Cuernavaca. My Dad had put some pesos in his wallet where his license was and the cop took the money gave him back his wallet and we were on our way!

Another time, going through customs from the States through Laredo, he had some industrial diamonds in his suitcase for the company he was working for. So, he put a small AM/FM radio (this is during the sixties) in the suitcase, inspections took the radio and we were on our way!

That’s how life was back then.


17 posted on 11/05/2021 4:17:11 PM PDT by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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To: BenLurkin

But were they wearing masks?


18 posted on 11/05/2021 4:22:18 PM PDT by abb
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To: cherry

When my father was working in the city of Campinas, Brazil near São Paulo, we were told not to wear any visible jewelry upon getting off the airplane as little kids would look for items they could rob. This was during the seventies, things are much worse.


19 posted on 11/05/2021 4:29:30 PM PDT by bertmerc1 (Conservative Buddhist)
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To: BenLurkin

there is NOTHING, in mexco worth yer life...


20 posted on 11/05/2021 4:42:27 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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