'Cocaine Coast' Emerges Along Mexico's Pacific Side

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Caribbean crackdown forces smugglers to seek new routes


SALINA CRUZ, Mexico - If you know what's good for you, fisherman Teodoro Contreras says, you stay away from certain places after the sun sets on the beaches of Mexico's southern coast.

From the resort city of Acapulco to the Guatemalan border, this is Mexico's "Cocaine Coast," the main destination for drug-carrying speedboats, airplanes and even submarines that are switching to the Pacific Ocean to avoid increasingly numerous patrols in the Caribbean Sea.

"There are boats out there, trucks, people doing things they shouldn't be doing," Contreras said, waving at the curving shoreline near Salina Cruz. "People coming right up on the beach and catching rides to who-knows-where. You mind your own business at night."

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My Comment: One can now comfortably say that Mexico's drug problem covers all four corners of the country.

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