As of early August, 650 people had been killed in Acapulco, Mexico in 2011, making it one of the the bloodiest cities in Mexico, due primarily to the drug war. 
As a key passageway for South American cocaine, the city has long attracted drug gangs, with agents of the Sinaloa Cartel battling the Zetas as far back as 2005. Both gangs are targeted in America’s war on drugs, which unfortunately has bolstered their capacities in various ways as they expand their dominance in the black market.
Men from the Zetas gang are suspected of having terrorized and burnt down a crowded casino last week, killing over 50 people. The motivation for the attack is reportedly a failure to pay protection money.
Twenty-three local gasoline stations closed down on Friday to protest against increased extortion demands from these gangs, while authorities reported a 20-fold rise in car robberies along the highway which connects Acapulco to Mexico City. After a series of robberies on shops last week, a handful of jewelers in the city’s downtown announced a weekend shutdown to take a stand against the violence.
The US response to such drug-related violence has been to crackdown and weaponize local armies. But this is counterproductive, as the Zetas gang is tied to US-trained and supported Guatemalan militias notorious for various human rights abuses. Similarly, the Sinaloa Cartel, which US authorities have cooperated with in the past, is involved in the smuggling and distribution of Colombian cocaine, where the US has funded various drug-trafficking militias as well as a corrupt government which has provided protection for such groups.
Sounds like the U.S. is out to destabilize Mexico too.
Well, we cal it bringing the blessings of democracy or bringing freedom, but yea, pretty much.
Before you dear readers strain your brains trying to make sense of what's going on and how it relates to Fast and Furious…. check out these pieces of puzzle MEXICO.
Maybe the cartells din''t have enough guns to guard the [see I A] drug shipments……
"Back in April, Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, the “logistical coordinator” for the Sinaloa drug-trafficking gang that was responsible for purchasing the CIA torture jet that crashed with four tons on cocaine on board back in 2007 told the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago that he had been working as a U.S. government asset for years.: See:
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Knight Ridder Washington Bureau
September 28, 2007 Friday
Drugs on crashed plane belonged to Mexico's biggest dealer
BYLINE: By Jay Root and Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers
DATELINE: MEXICO CITY
MEXICO CITY _ The four tons of cocaine found aboard a U.S.-registered business jet that crashed in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday belonged to Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, this country's most notorious drug trafficker, Mexican authorities said Friday.
The business jet that was transporting the dope to Mexico from Colombia was purchased just a week before the crash by a U.S. pilot with a history of legal and financial problems in Florida, interviews and official records indicate, but whether the pilot still owned the plane at the time of its crash is unknown.
The complex sale of the Gulfstream II jet and its end in the Mexican jungle highlight the increasingly complicated illicit drug trade. A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office said the trade generates as much as $23 billion a year for Mexico-based drug cartels.
U.S. authorities say as much as 90 percent of the cocaine sold in the U.S. is shipped through Mexico.
At least three suspects, including a Mexican pilot, are in Mexican custody. Mexican authorities say two of the men offered them money if they would give back the cocaine and release any crew members.
The Gulfstream II departed Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on Sept. 18. In the days between then and the plane's crash, it apparently flew to Mexico, then to Colombia and was on its way back to Mexico when Mexican anti-drug aircraft intercepted it.
"The cocaine was to be delivered to El Chapo," said an official in the Mexican attorney general's office, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "We do know it was from Colombia."
Guzman has acquired an almost mythic status in Mexico. After breaking out of jail in 2001, he has repeatedly eluded capture and is revered in some parts of this impoverished nation as a Robin Hood figure who distributes some of his ill-gotten gains to the poor.
How the U.S.-registered Gulfstream ended up in the hands of Guzman's violent Sinaloa Cartel isn't clear.
A bill of sale obtained by McClatchy Newspapers indicates that Florida pilot Clyde O'Connor bought the plane on Sept. 16 _ eight days before it went down in the Yucatan jungle. Another Florida pilot, identified by his license number and signature as Greg Smith, also signed the document, but his relationship to O'Connor isn't detailed." See: http://www.madcowprod.com/08242011.htm
End the "war on drugs".
According to researcher Daniel Hopsicker, who assembled the Bush/CIA/Stephens/Venice, Fla. airport and drugdrop undeniable cabal, Nixon's requirement for having Prescott Bush's sponsorship in running for state senate in California in 1947 was to have George H.W. Bush as his assisstant to learn the ropes for future endeavor. By the time Nixon became vice president, Bush41 was running large quantities of illicit drugs o ver the border from mexico for the Skull and Bones crowd, of which daddy Prescott was a member. That tradition carries to this day, with many informants and agents losing their lives because of faith and naivete. That is the reason for the utter failure of the war on drugs. Free the weed. Damn the rest and their purveyors.