Collateral Damage: 28 Bodies Found in Acapulco, Mexico

In our point of view, all deaths in Mexico's drug war are collateral damage, the so-called "unintended"  but, in fact, inevitable outcome of U.S. drug prohibition laws and the resulting "whack-a-mole" drug war. By the end of 2010, there had been over 30,000 such deaths in Mexico in four years and, as this report chronicles, they continue unabated. 

As long as such deaths are viewed as those of criminals rather than of human beings, the politicians and people of the U.S. can deny their complicity.

28 Bodies Found in Acapulco, Mexico - NYTimes.com: "Unlike many other tourist areas, Acapulco sits in a Pacific Coast state hotly contested by at least three drug-trafficking organizations and has paid the price with a rash of grisly killings in recent years and a sharp decline in foreign tourists." Jan. 8, 2011