Violence in Acapulco does not stop even during Holy Week: 17 murders and burning of public transport

Two drivers were shot and killed yesterday at a collective taxi site in the Casas Palenque Housing Unit, on the outskirts of Acapulco. This group of taxi drivers participated in a blockade at the entrance to Acapulco with coffins to demand that...

Hotels and beaches full and at least 12 murders linked to organized crime are the two faces of the famous Acapulco spa in this Easter, in a further sample of the contrasting realities of Mexico.92.5% of the 15,000 rooms of that port devastated by hurricanes in 2023 and 2024 are occupied in this period of school holidays, reported this Friday the local Tourism Secretariat.In addition to bathers that crowd the beaches, the jewel of the Mexican Pac…

So far during Holy Week, 5 drivers have been executed and two units have been burned.

On the day of Holy Thursday armed men left the body of a man killed with tourniquet on his neck, tied with feet and hands, in a car that was set on fire in the colony Paradise, in the conurbated area.