Latin American Herald Tribune - More Kids Caught in the Crossfire of Mexico’s Drug War: "The fatal shooting of a 4-year-old girl brought to three the number of children to die violently in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco within the last 72 hours, authorities said Thursday.
The girl and her mother were among four people whose bodies were discovered at dawn Thursday in the backseat of a car parked on the outskirts of Acapulco, the Guerrero state Public Safety Office said.
Two young men were also found shot to death at separate spots in the Pacific coast city.
Fifteen people have been slain in Acapulco since Tuesday, including a woman and two of her grandchildren gunned down inside the family home.
Carmela Benitez and grandchildren Jesus Daniel Villa, 6, and Juan Uriel Luna, 2, were killed by assailants traveling in six SUVs who followed someone to the home and then burst inside shooting.
Guerrero’s public safety secretary, Heriberto Salinas Altes, told reporters that an ongoing turf war among drug cartels has claimed 160 lives in the state in the last three months.
Violence surged this week after federal police arrested Benjamin Flores Reyes, leader of the Independent Cartel of Acapulco, which has been battling the Gulf cartel and the Beltran Leyva organization to control the drug trade in the resort city."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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