From The New York Times:MEXICO CITY — Cliff divers, all-night discos, towering hotels on the sand — that is one side of Acapulco. But a four-hour gun battle over the weekend between soldiers and suspected drug traffickers made clear that the popular beach resort has a dark side and that no part of Mexico may be completely immune from the continuing drug war.
The seaside shootout left 13 of the suspected drug traffickers, two of the soldiers and two bystanders — a father and son — dead, the authorities said on Monday. The scene was warlike, with the armed men who were believed to have belonged to the Beltrán Leyva cartel lobbing dozens of grenades at the advancing soldiers and exchanging thousands of rounds with them.
With local residents and budget-minded tourists huddling on the ground for cover and shielding their ears from the explosions with their hands, the scene “was like something out of ‘Rambo,’ ” a witness told the newspaper Reforma.
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My Comment: I was last in Acapulco in 1984 .... sigh .... the times have changed.