I cross Acapulco off my list and that leaves ...
Ah ... yes. LA, Detroit, Chicago and Newark, N.J.
Hello? Bob's Dream Tours? I'd like to make reservations ...
Posted on 04/21/2006 6:45:48 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
ACAPULCO, Mexico - The decapitated heads of a police chief and police officer were found early Thursday dumped in front of a government building - the same site where four drug traffickers died during a shootout with law enforcement earlier this year.
The heads of Acapulco Preventive Police Commander Mario Nunez Magana and Preventive Police Officer Jesus Alberto Ibarra were accompanied by a red sign with black lettering that warned, "So that you learn to respect."
They were discovered about 3 a.m. in front of the offices of the city's Finance Department. Beside them were black plastic bags the killers apparently had used to carry them in, said local Attorney General official Rogelio Quevedo Mendoza
The bodies of the policemen were later found in a different part of the city, one wrapped in a blue sheet and the other in a green rug. Both were secured with heavy tape, Quevedo said.
On Jan. 27, four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with Preventive Police officers in front of the Finance Department, located only 1.2 miles from the city's main tourist zone.
The gruesome discovery came just hours after Zeferino Torreblanca Galindo, the governor of Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, announced that he was investing $12 million to acquire heavy-duty weapons, new bulletproof vests, and modernized radios for the police force.
"The criminals should watch out because the good weapons are on their way," he told a news conference Thursday.
Acapulco has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations.
Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.
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I lived in Mexico for two years. At the same time my girlfriend lived in Acapulco. I used to visit her often. I actually lived in Acapulco for a few months. It was considered VERY dangerous then, back in the early 70's, for tourists and locals alike.
BEAUTIFUL natural harbor. One can CLEARLY see why it was one of the FIRST Mexican beach resorts to attract so many foreigners way back when. Merle Oberon's house was spectacular. It was a tourist site from a harbor cruise.
What made Acapulco (and Mexico, in general) so dangerous were the four "p"'s: politics, poverty, pollution and POLICE.
This policia must have been either terminally vicious, honest or stupid. I doubt that it had anything to do with bad luck.
Lovely country, that.
I cross Acapulco off my list and that leaves ...
Ah ... yes. LA, Detroit, Chicago and Newark, N.J.
Hello? Bob's Dream Tours? I'd like to make reservations ...
I for one will not go to Mexico again. I am for a boycot of Mexico amd Mexican goods. I know they are a huge supplier of oil but we could replace their oil if we would expand drilling in the gulf and open up ANWAR.
Acapulco is a PIT!!
Alcapulco has been gong downhill for years.
See if the itinerary includes East St Louis as well!
Good old "Bob" will send anyone anywhere.
It's the money, doncha know?
My six foot Cypress fence surrounded backyard looks like the best vacation spot around. ;)
Considering the views of immigration, obviously many (not all) of our politicians have been bribed by drug dealers and other criminals and special interest groups.
For anyone to support amnesty, an unprotected border, and this invasion of US, they have to be traitors/One World supporters, bribed, blackmailed, and/or suffering from mental defects.
Why? What good would that do?
Oh yeah, send them right in for amnesty.
Islam is taking hold in some areas of southern Mexico that has traditionally been held by Marxists. Yes, it seems that they are learning radical Islamic methods.
Understand your point - but.
If people want to fry their brains, destroy their bodies etc. with drugs that's their business - but my business is I don't want someone using who knows what flying my airplane or transplanting my kidney etc.
If there was some pretty fool proof way to check for drug induced impairment then I wouldn't have much of a problem with people choosing to destroy their lives etc.
But at this point I have to think of the WOD (with all its faults) as protecting the rest of society better than society would be protected if drug use was wide open.
It appears, for future history writers, that our unprotected southern border will truely become America's trojan horse.
I just got back from a trip to Acapulco. Nice place. My wife and I had a lot of fun. They are just beginning to become part of the cartel wars as they had somehow been blessed to escape most of it previously. Between this gruesome killing and the earlier related shootout, it is really starting to get ugly there.
Just practicing for when we get that wall built.
Substitute alcohol for drugs - same thing (maybe even worse). If I had to pick between the two - I'd rather have a doctor who just smoked a joint operate on me before I'd let a drunk doctor operate on me.
Joint?
Not meth, crack, heroin etc.?
For purposes of debate, you're comparing alcohol to the most "benign" of illegal drugs?
And how benign it is, is debatable. My best friend's now adult child supposedly never used anything but pot and the former honor student just barely functions now. His choice, his life ruined. But his parents and siblings have grieved for decades.
And you're preaching to the choir here about the evils of alcohol - my son donated part of his liver to his father whose own liver was destroyed by alcohol.
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