MEXICO UNDER SIEGE In Mexico, 13 killed in Acapulco area, 11 others elsewhere in Guer

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At least 13 people were killed Saturday, some of them beheaded, around the popular beach resort of Acapulco, just as foreign visitors have begun arriving for spring break.

Elsewhere in the Guerrero state where Acapulco is located, 11 other people, including soldiers and suspected traffickers, were killed, authorities said.

The dead in Acapulco included five police officers, authorities said, who were ambushed while on patrol on the city's outskirts about 2 a.m.

Over the next four hours, the bullet-riddled bodies of eight men were discovered in three locations, police said. Four had been beheaded, in the style typical of drug traffickers who have been at war with one another and with government forces for three years.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-mexi...

[Bluemyboy]

scary stuff. Glad I am not going down there for spring break this year.

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WASHINGTON — A U.S. official says three people affiliated with the American consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in a drive-by shooting.

A U.S. official says two American citizens and a spouse of a Mexican employee were killed Saturday afternoon. The official spoke only on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

The White House says President Barack Obama is outraged by the news.

The State Department is authorizing U.S. government employees at six U.S. consulates in northern Mexico to send their family members out of the area because of concerns about rising drug-related violence, including the post in Ciudad Juarez.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/14/americans-kill...