{"id":10605,"date":"2011-01-10T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2011-01-10T17:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:01:41","slug":"drug-war-acapulco-27-dead-10012011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/drug-war-acapulco-27-dead-10012011\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug wars in Acapulco: 27 dead found"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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. The 14 headless bodies, and a 15th intact corpse, were found by police on a street outside a shopping center accompanied by written warnings from a drug cartel, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Handwritten signs left with the bodies were signed by “El Chapo’s People,” a reference to the Sinaloa cartel, which is headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located. The narco-messages indicated the Sinaloa cartel killed the 15 men for trying to intrude on the gang’s turf and extort residents.<\/p>\n

Mexico’s drug cartels have increasingly taken to beheading their victims in a grisly show of force, but Saturday’s discovery was the largest single group of decapitation victims found in recent years.<\/p>\n

In 2008, a group of 12 decapitated bodies were piled outside the Yucatan state capital of Merida. The same year, nine headless men were discovered in the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo.<\/p>\n

Also killed Saturday in Acapulco were the two police officers; six people who were shot dead and stuffed in a taxi, their hands and feet bound; and four others elsewhere in the city. Two police officers were wounded when armed men attacked a police post in the city’s Emiliano Zapata district.<\/p>\n

The wave of violence in one of Mexico’s biggest resorts was condemned by the federal government.<\/p>\n

At least 30,196 people have died in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against cartels in late 2006.<\/p>\n

Also Saturday, authorities said a small-town mayor was found dead in northern Mexico.
\nSaul Vara Rivera, mayor of the municipality of Zaragoza, was reported missing by family members Wednesday, Coahuila state prosecutors said in a statement. His bullet-ridden body was discovered Friday in neighboring Nuevo Leon state.
\nThere were no immediate arrests. At least a dozen mayors were killed nationwide last year in acts of intimidation attributed to drug gangs.<\/p>\nError, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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