12 taxi drivers, fares killed in Mexican resort

[somone]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-02-20-mexico-violence_N.htm

12 taxi drivers, fares killed in Mexican resort

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — A spate of attacks on taxis in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco has left 12 taxi drivers or passengers dead, police said Sunday, just hours before the Mexican Open tennis tournament is scheduled to start. Acapulco has been the scene of bloody drug cartel turf wars, and taxi drivers have often been targeted for extortion or recruited by the gangs to act as lookouts or transport drugs.

The organizers of the largest tennis tournament in Latin America said in a statement Sunday that the Mexican government has assured them that appropriate security measures have been taken for the event that starts Monday. Police in Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located, said that four suspects had been detained in relation with some of the attacks. The suspects had guns, a grenade and a machete that police say may have been used to decapitate some of the victims.

The attacks began Friday, when five taxi drivers were found dead in or near their vehicles. The slaughter continued Saturday, when a driver was found bound and shot to death near his taxi, and two others were found dead of bullet wounds inside their vehicles. One of the drivers had been beheaded.

Gunmen opened fire on yet another taxi, killing the driver and three passengers. On Sunday, the violence came closer to the city's tourist zone, where the tennis matches are held. Five cars were set afire and a man's body was found hacked to pieces outside an apartment building...

[donco]

1. So much for Acapulco being a spring break magnet nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. "Or"

Can reporting get any worse?

Just another question or two.

[blaze]

4. "Or" can reporting get any worse?

Do you have something else to report?

I'd welcome it.

[barbtries]

3. jeezus krist.

what goes on with this human race?!

[madokie]

5. I think the underlying problem is the income inequity

Throughout the world people are up in arms demanding change and being poor and hungry is what is driving this. The fat cats have to give up some of their ill-gotten gains or it'll be a blood bath.
People can see what the big corporations are doing to all of us when they are able to post quarterly profits in the billions and paying only a pittance to the workers making and or doing the work. The straw that broke the camels back is soon.

I know what is going on in mexico is drug related but the underlining problem is as I stated. Hungry and no future will do strange things to people

[barbtries]

7. yes.

i think that pretty much nails it.

[leveymg]

8. You don't see beheadings over coffee and tequila. Legalization would kill the cartels overnight.

But, legalization is opposed by the very same corrupt government officials that benefit so richly from bribery.

The fact that drugs are controlled by criminal syndicates also drives the profits upward and keeps the social costs down on the middle and bottom layers of society.

[madokie]

10. Looking at it from that perspective I have to say yes I agree

Legalization of drugs would solve a lot of problems all over the world. Trouble is the man doesn't want problems solved, they only want problems created as they make money from all facets of it from the arrest to the incarceration. Its all about the money, plus free labor in a lot of cases. Slave wages at the least.

[leveymg]

11. So the criminalization syndicate and enforcement of drug laws are really forms of human trafficking.

Since you reminded us of the free convict labour aspect of the Global War on Drugs (GWOD), that thought comes to mind.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. omg. This is really horrible.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

9. There are also several serial killers that operate in and around those resorts.

Mexico is a very scary place. You can't really blame people not wanting to live there anymore...