Posted on 04/25/2011 1:53:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mexico was stunned by a shocking new massacre Monday after four women and a teenage girl who worked in an Acapulco beauty parlor were found stripped and slaughtered.
The 14-year-old and two of the women were found on the second floor of the shop Sunday with their hands bound - and their throats cuts.
Two other victims were found elsewhere in the resort city - one dumped on a street behind a church and the other in an abandoned car.
None of the slain women were identified; police said the teen had worked at the salon for just five days.
A favorite stop for American tourists, Acapulco has been convulsed in recent months by violent turf wars between rival drug gangs that have left thousands dead in Mexico.
More than 34,600 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's powerful drug cartels in 2006
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Here's a few more vacation spots to avoid like the plague:
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Unfortunately they're exporting that inhumanity here as reflected in the record number of criminal aliens.
34,600 in more or less 5 years.
Latest available data gives Mexico a murder rate of 13/100,000 compared the U.S. rate of 4/100,000.
61 Columbia
32 Jamaica
31 Venezuela
6 Costa Rica
4.5 Uraguay
...
1.5 Canada
Oddly, Brazil & Argentina are not listed.
SOURCE: Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998 - 2000 (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention)
This data is from BEFORE Calderon declared war on the cartels.
OTOH, the 2009 rate increased to 5.1, BUT the FBI included NON-negligent homicides in the murder rate.
Any way you slice it, practically any place south of the Border is MUCH more dangerous to life than the U.S.
Do you notice that politicians send their kids to private schools? They don’t expect to pay the price for the chaos that they sow.
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