I guess the supposed truce only holds for Ciudad Juarez. This frightens me as I just read of yet another local couple headed to Acapulco for their honeymoon. My daughter even has tickets to the city next month, to visit college friends who own a house there. I can't wrap my mind around the terror experienced on a daily basis by the law-abiding citizens. How do you go to the store, to church, send your children to school? It must be constant unmitigated fear.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109...jA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawMyN2RlYXRoc2luY2w-
27 deaths, including 14 decapitated, rock Acapulco
"The image of this beach mecca has taken a new hit from Mexico's drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping center.
Acapulco has seen fierce turf wars between drug gangs, and the bloodshed is scaring some vacationers away even though little of the violence happens in tourist areas.
The decapitation slayings and most of the other killings that occurred in a stretch of just a few hours from Friday night into Saturday also occurred in non-tourism areas. But two police officers were shot to death on a major bayside avenue in front of visitors and locals...."
more at link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110109...jA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawMyN2RlYXRoc2luY2w-
27 deaths, including 14 decapitated, rock Acapulco
"The image of this beach mecca has taken a new hit from Mexico's drug violence, with 27 people killed in less than a day, including 14 men whose bodies were found with their heads chopped off at a shopping center.
Acapulco has seen fierce turf wars between drug gangs, and the bloodshed is scaring some vacationers away even though little of the violence happens in tourist areas.
The decapitation slayings and most of the other killings that occurred in a stretch of just a few hours from Friday night into Saturday also occurred in non-tourism areas. But two police officers were shot to death on a major bayside avenue in front of visitors and locals...."
more at link