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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2005 
Crackdown Hits 2 Resort Cities
 Wire services
| | Federal police officers carry out security checks on cars in the resort city of Acapulco last month. (Photo: Jesϊs Trigo) |
In the coming days, law enforcement authorities will expand Operation Safe Mexico to the Pacific coastal resort cities of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo to deal with drug trafficking and its associated violence, Guerrero state officials told EFE on Thursday.
The authorities have decided to expand the operation to the resort communities, as well as to the Guerrero state capital of Chilpancingo.
It remains to be determined precisely how the operation will be carried out, however, since the economies of Acapulco and Zihuatanejo depend largely on local and foreign tourism and authorities do not want to frighten away the visitors.
Such matters will be decided in a meeting scheduled for Sept. 9 among Gov. Zeferino Torreblanca and federal public safety ministry officials.
Safe Mexico was launched on June 11 in the northern border states of Tamaulipas and Baja California Norte, as well as in the state of Sinaloa, the home base for many of the country's drug trafficking kingpins.
The aim of the measure is to quell the wave of violence unleashed by drug cartels battling one another over lucrative smuggling routes to the United States, their main market. So far this year, more than 800 people have been killed in the turf wars.
Safe Mexico was later expanded to the western state of Michoacan, as well as the State of Mexico near the capital, and it is expected that it will also be implemented at some point in the southern states bordering Guatemala. |
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